Do you tip car guards?

[Mirai]

never thought about it that way, does make sense I guess
why we still have petrol attendants when its completely unnecessary, and why we have car guards when its seen as pointless,

guess Saffers are still yearning for the days of yore when people barely did anything (if they were white)
and all manual work was done by the black poorer class, and its left its mark

fortunately times have changed, but this relic remains, when again its exclusive to SA.

It's a colonial white boss mentality. He's too good to do basic manual work. So people had maids, had gardeners, car wash, pour the petrol, etc. In the old days your General Post Office employee had his own house and car and had people do all these things.

Now some of that still carries over. You now have fewer white bosses and the bosses are more diverse but they're also allergic to manual work, that's beneath them. You don't wash your own windows. You don't cut your own lawn. You have a company do that for you. And hence why you also have this car guard BS, or petrol filling or such. And now people expect tips for that even.

Even your stupid Seattle Coffee, you go there and there's a tray of tips which already makes you think you should tip. And tip for what? For a salaried employee who pushes water at pressure through coffee grounds?

And I've had the experience when I did not tip and the coffee came out a mess, at Seattle.

 

[Swa]

As said earlier many South Africans were allergic to basic manual work, it was seen as beneath them. You'd have a poor white dude run a tiny business eg gardening or handyman type service, and he'd have a group of black guys do the actual work and he'd stand around with his boep, and point here or there or occasionally pitch in. That has caught on so that many of our old whites and new whites think they need a safety expert to help them out at the parking spot and these guys just capitalise on this.

Actually these kind of businesses as above still exist. Your gadening service has white baas who comes along with a group of young black guys who do the actual work and just stands around or sits in his bakkie.

This kind of nanny attitude occurs still and has occurred. Like our 220v outlets have switches and have huge earth plugs.

Well not much different with 10 blacks standing around while one or two do the work. I guess the work allergy has caught on in SA.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

So there's no hope of a job like this going away? Saffers in general are lazy and some people capitalize on this,

I mean overseas I noticed people are more hands on, is there no way something like this will ever catch on locally?
I mean self service fuel is very commonplace, car guards are non existent,
beat cops are everywhere,

at least what I remember from Israel, where a lot of things stood out to me as very odd having lived in both countries as well as north America for a time.

its just how a certain place developed, and each is unique.

 

[geezer]

Off course I pay them, I would be driving around in a parking lot searching for an empty space. On my own I would never be able to see any, and also, without their assistance, I would never be able to reverse out of the parking space without their expertise and guiding me out. Also, without their help I would never in my life be able to lift out the Checkers bag out of the trolley to put it into the car's boot.

 

[Mirai]

Well not much different with 10 blacks standing around while one or two do the work. I guess the work allergy has caught on in SA.

Well when you go to Europe you see 10 white dudes in overalls digging those trenches or standing around replacing a few paving stones, like 10 guys to replace 5 square meters of paving on a public sidewalk.

 

[Mirai]

So there's no hope of a job like this going away? Saffers in general are lazy and some people capitalize on this,

I mean overseas I noticed people are more hands on, is there no way something like this will ever catch on locally?
I mean self service fuel is very commonplace, car guards are non existent,
beat cops are everywhere,

at least what I remember from Israel, where a lot of things stood out to me as very odd having lived in both countries as well as north America for a time.

its just how a certain place developed, and each is unique.

Self service for fuel is the norm but there are exceptions where the owner hires a guy to fill you up, especially if he wants his pumps well kept and not abused, I suppose.

Things catch on when money runs short. If you can replace a piece of leaking pipe yourself for R200 instead of calling out a team which will set you back a few thousand, people will do this themselves.

The coolest is Abu Dhabi though, they have or had Pakistani or Bangladeshi petrol attendants who'd fill your car and take the payment. They did not have handheld machines so you'd give the guy your card and the PIN and he'd go inside, pay and return to give you back your card and receipt.

 

[kolaval]

I barely give my wife the tip.

 

[animal531]

I barely give my wife the tip.

Don't worry, neighbour's got you covered.