Do you tip car guards?

Do you tip car guards?

  • Yes

    Votes: 112 33.8%

  • No

    Votes: 168 50.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 51 15.4%
  • Total voters
    331
JabiRider said:
these guys got into a physical altercation and I had to pull them apart as they were upsetting the kids.
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rookie error, they gifted you the perfect opportunity to leave while they were moer-ing each other

pity the tip was already handed over, next time just pretend to tip the wrong guy on purpose and make your escape when they start fighting
 
deweyzeph said:
It's not even about the money. In Cape Town at least, the malls without car guards are the ones where you have to pay for parking, and the malls with car guards tend to be the ones with free parking. But I'd rather pay R10 or R15 for proper secure parking at an upmarket mall that understands that customers don't like to be harassed by beggars.
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The upmarket malls have introduced a new irritation - car washers :mad: :mad::mad:
 
If I have cash in pocket, and he is standing in fair proximity to the car when I return yes. If he is the other side of the parking area then not.
 
maumau said:
The upmarket malls have introduced a new irritation - car washers :mad: :mad::mad:
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Yeah definitely want the dust rubbed directly into the paint.

My magnanimity has utterly depleted since the communist lockdowns and escalation of plunder by the ANC-EFF. High caste politicians want their own poor to rot, now I do too.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
If I have cash in pocket, and he is standing in fair proximity to the car when I return yes. If he is the other side of the parking area then not.
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I once had a bergie literally be asleep on the pavement a few cars from my parking spot, only to wake up and chase after me when I pulled away, demanding a tip

seems they don't particularly think they need to actually watch your car in order to earn a tip from you
 
JabiRider said:
I try to park my car so I can drive forward to get out of the parking, instead of reversing out. Then I feel like a lottery winner when I get into the parking lot and see the car guard zoning in on a tannie about to get into her Fortuner, because this gives me the opportunity to jump into my car and speed away, before getting noticed.

If I do have cash and get caught by a guard, then I will tip them.

I earned R2 once in a parking lot. Probably shouldn't say it, because I didn't declare it to SARS.

Was on my way home from work, and the wife called me, saying she was in Pick 'n Pay doing shopping, and that I should come and help her as she bought heavy bags of dog food and stuff. So when I loaded the stuff in her car, she reversed out, and I took the trolley away. Another car reversed out, the window went down, and the guy stuck his hand out the window and handed me a R2 coin...

At my previous performance appraisal my boss was very happy with my work, but he said he wished I would "dress a little neater" for work. I just thought he said that to give just one negative, so I wouldn't get a big head.

Anyway, after earning that R2, I made an entire wardrobe change, and dress neater and more formal these days than all my colleagues.
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Ha ha. Happened to a friend of mine's dad. He owned a game lodge, and one day he was dressed in his 'DIY clothes', busy fixing a roof in the covered parking area. One of the clients tipped him, and he kept it.
 
karnuffel said:
on the topic of polite, I absolutely hate it when I leave my car and some clown yells "HELLO!!!" from across the parking lot and then expects something just because he greeted me.
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If you acknowledge them then it's called contracting.
 
Sometimes, depends on my mood and if i have cash.

If they had a quick tap-to-tip device it would make life much easier.

But they often just irritate me too as they're too overbearing.
 
maumau said:
The upmarket malls have introduced a new irritation - car washers :mad: :mad::mad:
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I even got to my car once at a mall in Pretoria, and they washed my car without me giving them permission. I refused to pay.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
If I have cash in pocket, and he is standing in fair proximity to the car when I return yes. If he is the other side of the parking area then not.
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Sometimes you get to your car and the guy is on the other side of the parking lot, but the moment you put your car in reverse, and look op in the mirror, he is right behind the car...
 
Normally places I frequent, yes, if I have some spare change. I've seen these guys scratch cars or puncture tyres if they are familiar with you and you never tip. I mean this is Mzansi 4 sure , criminality is prevalent here you know.
 
Generally no.
If I have cash and the person is friendly (not too obtrusive) but does actually provide value then I will give a R5 or R10.
Those okes that come running from down the road with the stolen safety jackets can **** right off.
 
butters89 said:
I read an article a few months ago showing how little money they actually make. They have to pay R50 per day to the agency and then buy their uniform as well. Most days, they make nowhere near that amount.

It does shed a new light on what they go through. On one hand, do they really offer much? But on the hand, they're not sitting on their butts like so many people in this country.

I never have cash on me, so I will just get them a loaf of bread and maybe a cooldrink.

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I don't think it is all of the car guards, though. When I started working I rented one of three flats on a lady's property. In one of those flats lived a family of four. The two kids were in school, and the wife didn't work. The guy was a car guard who had recently lost his job as a labourer at a factory. These people were dirt poor and struggling, but the guy told me that he was making about the same money a month being a car guard, than he did in his factory job. I do think he spent more hours in the parking lot a day than in his factory job, and perhaps more days a week, but he was able to pay rent and he was able to put food on the table. This was 1998/1999, and I think the lady charged R800 per month for a flat.
 
If the guys actively helpful, comes to fetch the trolley, etc... yes.

If the guy just rocks up out of nowhere - no.

Had an instance in Newlands where I had to find new parking, unofficial car guard threatened to key my wfies car if we didn't pay R20 upfront.
 
Only if it is very busy and they find me a spot, or if I am forced to park near a lolliekop (Melville and places around Ellis Park are full of them) and don't want my car to be fvcked with.
 
Reverse your car into the parking bay, and as soon as the car guard turns his back run to car your and drive off.
 
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