Who Deserves a Holiday Tip Best Year-End Tipping Practices

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3:39Who gets tipped? Who should you tip? What's the best practices for end-of-year tipping? You know, it's one of these things. A lot of service workers, this comes from Mike. He asked this question. It's a great question. Garbage men. valet parker, like if you live in a building that has like valet parkers, those guys, concierge service if you live in a building. But then it goes down. Teachers. It's a good, yeah. Then at what age do you, like preschool teachers, stuff like that. Are you giving money to your son's high school teacher? Like what, who really needs an end of year monetary gift? Well, valet, for sure.

4:25Shout out to the guys. Doorman, shout out to y 'all. For sure, because they keep a lot of chaos away. Teachers, if they are a good teacher. What age teacher? I don't know. But the ones that I've had has been now first through fifth for Xander. I like his teacher, his primary teacher a lot. So I definitely give them something tomorrow, matter of fact. But I think it depends on, but even in preschool, you may think that they were not doing a lot, but when I would just pop in, they were, and then it was a family-run daycare. They do a really good job. So I brought some stuff up there for Christmas too, and then cleaning ladies.

5:10That's like my second family. They make my life so much easier. So those are the ones that I take care of in my circle, valet doorman teacher um house manager and it depends on if you live in an apartment or if you live in a home too because sanitation that's a home thing that's a private home thing yeah if you live in an apartment you don't see a sanitation worker so that's not even a thought if you live in a home then yeah the sanitation guys come and you know they come every wednesday they pick up the trash. That's a more personable thing. I think it depends on your life because a valet parker, like I said, if you live in a building, that's important.

5:51That's a close relationship. Yeah. Work-wise, yeah. The mailman. The mailman. Maybe. It depends on the relationship. Well, it also depends on the service, but it's just like I feel like the mailman is important. Are people even getting mail like that anymore? Nah, nah, people still get mail. That was my... They get bills. True. True. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?

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10:59But yeah, the mailman. Barber. Oh, yeah, Barber, for sure. Yeah, Dave Shands made that conversation go crazy about if they're charging too much, but definitely holiday time. You got to take care of the Barber. School bus drivers. That's a good one. The school bus drivers. Those guys are important, or women. They're important because they make sure your kid gets to and from. Who are you not tipping? Anybody that does a bad job. Just because you do something. If you're a bad sanitation worker and the trash is always on the lawn, no, I'm not tipping you. Or if you just have horrible energy. Yeah, if you're not a nice person.

11:43Yeah. But if you do your job well, how much do you tip? it depends on the relationship to be honest. Clean ladies, they make my life so easy. Nice gift every year. You know, because this goes back to the wedding thing. Remember we talked about the wedding? A lot of people don't know. A lot of people, especially, unfortunately, our community, they don't fully understand etiquette a lot of times when it comes to wedding gifts. A lot of people don't fully understand etiquette when it comes to year-end gifts, tipping, holiday tips. They don't even know you have to do that or that is something that is you know expected on a certain level right so it's like it's not even that they're trying to be cheap it never the thought never crossed their mind that to give a sanitation worker a hundred dollars yeah but people also what my thing is to do to others how you want them to do you so deep down i think some people know they just may not think it's a requirement even in business you should be sending gifts out in the year for the people that's taking care of you.

12:45Well, that's bonus. Year-end bonus. Yeah. And a gift may not be bad in addition to. So in combination, if a person has been exemplary for you. Yeah. But rule of thumb, anybody that you're relying on, either on a daily or weekly basis that has a high level of customer service throughout the year, should be getting a tip. So if you're relying on your sanitation worker, if you're relying on your valet parker, if you're relying on your concierge, got your building, if you're relying on your, on your, a FedEx worker, if you're relying on your mail worker, if you're relying on your barber, if you're relying on the lady that does your, your manicures, if, if, if you're relying on, you know, your, the bus driver to make sure that your kid gets to or from school safely.

13:32If you're relying on a, on a preschool teacher that has to stay with the kids all day, every day. And they don't, they don't get different classes. They only have one group of kids for the whole entire day. because A, you're thanking them, but B, you're also having some level of, let's be honest, preferential treatment going forward. Yes. They're going to treat you better. Pay it in advance. Let's be honest. Right. Like, I mean, it's just one of those things. Like if you have one, they're going to make sure that you get better treatment than everybody else because you went over and above everybody else.

14:10Especially in a restaurant setting, too. Like, one way to get great service is a tip as soon as you get there. Before dinner? Mm-hmm. Helps a lot. I went and had a reservation. That'll go away a couple of times. I used to have a little issue in Sexyfield. You don't have no pants? Don't worry about it. Thank you. You know, Jabril broke it down, Passport Heavy. Shout out to him. Shout out to him. He said what he does is he started tipping the hotel check-in people. It helps a lot. It helps a lot, bro, especially L.A., Mexico. He starts, he's like, and then miraculously, he just starts getting room upgrades, fruit baskets sent to the room.

14:54Even when I go to Cabo, like, they'll connect you with the other people that are moving the show. Hey, do you know such and such? He's a director. I don't know. I have no clue what that nature documentary was on BBC. Cool. Connect me. Because you're paying it for it first, and they may not be able to give you the gratitude back monetarily, but they'll be able to do it in service or another way. It helps. Yeah. And for your cleaning people and drivers and all that, if you don't treat them well, your information may end up on the dark web. So be careful. Take care of them. Take care of them, please.

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17:24Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, a.k.a. neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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