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
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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Ain't got no time for that :p

If the guard puts as much effort into being a reverse instructor as directing you to an open bay then I'll tip otherwise he's just playing on your sympathies like a beggar.
This is evident when you tip him as you exit the vehicle and notice how he's nowhere to be found when you return.
 
Only if they actually provide a useful service like showing me an empty parking spot I missed or such.

Random hand waving when I'm trying to reverse my car with PDC and 360 cameras is actually annoying as they just get in the way and I am old enough to park my car without 3rd party help
 
I often ask if I can buy them a drink as plastic money does not work for them.
 
Swa said:
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Europe uses 2 prong plugs for 220V appliances. These may be earthed and the earth connector may be a clip on either side, or a pin or something else. But usually no switch. I grew up without switches.
 
feel bad for _some_ of them, but can't really tip since I don't have cash. Sometimes they can be irritating AF when they step into your path while reversing and you have to stop to avoid knocking the fool
 
no, and never do, firstly as I caught them being lookouts for their buddies who see who double checks their car is locked,
and directs their friends to help themselves from whatever you have in your boot, if not actively participating in jamming your car, and watching your reaction to not hearing your car lock, happened at least twice to me, luckily im a total paranoid freak, so I always double check.

and secondly, as they are pests, everybody who earned a license learns to reverse out a parking bay,
dont need them, dont want them, and am convinced this is many of their "day" job, their night job is hopping fences and burglarizing people, if not something worse, like being muggers/ hijackers,

call me a cynic, call me evil call me whatever you like, but these dudes are not poor people scraping by, these are predators watching everybody come and go an picking their targets of opportunity.

and even if they wear a legitimate vest and have a radio and look semi professional, you dont need dudes jumping around waving like they directing a A380 into a stand, you got eyes, and you learned to drive, and this was one of the things you learned to do yourself.
 
I only tip if I find them helpful... Sometimes they don't even look at your car so why should I?
 
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