Do you tip car guards?

Do you tip car guards?

  • Yes

    Votes: 64 22.2%

  • No

    Votes: 106 36.8%

  • Occasionally

    Votes: 113 39.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 1.7%
  • Total voters
    288
Very infrequently. I don't carry cash, so hardly ever.

I had a good Samaritan bail me out with R5 cash when I needed to make a photocopy of my ID card. They 3 @ 1 wouldn't take a debit card for that amount. Humbling, and I'll pay it forward, but I so seldom have any cash nowadays.
 
I don't, and most of the time, them jumping behind my car when they notice I'm leaving, to make some vigorous hand waving "signals", often to the point that my proximity alarm goes off - Is the most stressful part of the overall public parking experience for me. Then again I'm also >95% cashless when I'm out and about. Months go by between instances where I withdraw a couple hundred bucks. And most of the change goes generously to petrol attendants. If they at least clean my windows.
 
No, in some places here they can get very aggressive towards car owners when you give them money or don't. Or one of the favourite things are to block cars.
 
The Trutherizer said:
I don't, and most of the time, them jumping behind my car when they notice I'm leaving, to make some vigorous hand waving "signals", often to the point that my proximity alarm goes off - Is the most stressful part of the overall public parking experience for me. Then again I'm also >95% cashless when I'm out and about. Months go by between instances where I withdraw a couple hundred bucks. And most of the change goes generously to petrol attendants. If they at least clean my windows.
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Most people, these days including myself, never carries cash
 
surface said:
I generally talk to them beforehand and request them not to move hands like crazy when I back out of parking lot and if they remember it when I am back, I give R5 if I have in the car.

In fact, since I got car with all kinds of sensors, it annoys me more as car beeps when they are right in the way when you back out.
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This, and it's one of the many reasons I won't eve pay them. My car doesn't have a fancy reversing camera but it has PDC, which is completely useless if the rotten POS insists on standing right behind the thing causing it to scream at me incessantly. Useless cretins that are nothing other than a bother. I'd rather give money to beggars.
 
Binary_Bark said:
No, in some places here they can get very aggressive towards car owners when you give them money or don't. Or one of the favourite things are to block cars.
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I haven't seen this yet, is that in Gauteng? Around here they'd probably get beaten up if they do that.
 
Haven't done tipping in ages


Oh wait, you said car guards and not cars.
 
I've got a new trick that makes them very happy.
Makro has got R55 for 50x 20g niknaks. I bought once for kids but the car gaurds love them as well.
 
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