Well last night a customer tipped me 2$ . In the 7 months I have been here , he was the only one to tip me . He gave it to me while I was bagging , he slid it on the piece under the bags and whispered "Just between us". If I got tipped a 1$ or 2$ by every customer I baggeed for or who's car I loaded or who's shopping I did , That would atleast be a extra 50$ a day but I can only dream all customers aren't lIke that . Any of you ever get tipped ?
If you get tipped politely decline but if they offer it to you again you can have the excuse they forced it on you if someone says something about it. You can be fired for accepting tips. That being said I have been tipped before but always told them that they didn't have to. They all insisted i take it.
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I've been fortunate enough to receive a couple $20.00 tips from a few different people. Most of the time, it's just a few dollars, but I've received $5.00 at time, $3.00 and so on. I've had days where I'll work eight hours, but make enough in tips where my tip money will add up to an extra hour's worth of work. Kroger allows tipping, as long as you don't ask for one or make it look like you're waiting for one.
Our Kroger's Starbucks used to have a tip jar. Now there's a sign that says "we no longer accept tips. Sorry for any inconvenience!" Who is it inconvenient for?
Odd. Where I am, the main reason courtesy clerks aren't given raises ever is tied to the fact they are allowed to accept tips.
Might just be my cynicism showing here, but that's probably just the reason they tell you.
Maybe. By allowing tips, that provides them with a convenient excuse for not having to give a paltry $0.10 raise every nine months to around twenty people on the front end. I feel bad for some of the courtesy clerks because I believe they deserve a raise as much as everyone else because they work hard, but no sense in talking about it because that's just the way things unfortunately are.
-- Edited by GenesisOne on Tuesday 12th of February 2013 10:23:34 AM
Maybe. By allowing tips, that provides them with a convenient excuse for not having to give a paltry $0.10 raise every nine months to around twenty people on the front end. I feel bad for some of the courtesy clerks because I believe they deserve a raise as much as everyone else because they work hard, but no sense in talking about it because that's just the way things unfortunately are.
However, many of the "baggers" on the front end are not actually courtesy clerks, they are store clerks. Store clerks do accrue seniority and get raises, but they can be transferred and can be trained to check as well.
Maybe. By allowing tips, that provides them with a convenient excuse for not having to give a paltry $0.10 raise every nine months to around twenty people on the front end. I feel bad for some of the courtesy clerks because I believe they deserve a raise as much as everyone else because they work hard, but no sense in talking about it because that's just the way things unfortunately are.
However, many of the "baggers" on the front end are not actually courtesy clerks, they are store clerks. Store clerks do accrue seniority and get raises, but they can be transferred and can be trained to check as well.
Where I'm at, the "store clerk" position doesn't exist.
Maybe. By allowing tips, that provides them with a convenient excuse for not having to give a paltry $0.10 raise every nine months to around twenty people on the front end. I feel bad for some of the courtesy clerks because I believe they deserve a raise as much as everyone else because they work hard, but no sense in talking about it because that's just the way things unfortunately are.
However, many of the "baggers" on the front end are not actually courtesy clerks, they are store clerks. Store clerks do accrue seniority and get raises, but they can be transferred and can be trained to check as well.
Where I'm at, the "store clerk" position doesn't exist.
It should. Everyone who works in grocery or drug/gm is a store clerk. The ones I am talking about just work on the front end as baggers. It's a pretty broad term.
Our Kroger's Starbucks used to have a tip jar. Now there's a sign that says "we no longer accept tips. Sorry for any inconvenience!" Who is it inconvenient for?
oh the dreaded TIP JAR! i hate them things. I would love to stick a TIP JAR at the deli counter for a week or so
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Sure, tips happen. Had an old woman with dementia throw a fifty at me once during an episode. Would have resisted if she were not likely to get violent. Our handbooks reads that we cannot solicit tips. So, fully rule compliant, I never ask for tips ever (That would be insane anyway, someone would complain). If customers feel that I have performed well enough to freely offer me a tip, that is just a sign that I am fully operating the Kroger customer first strategy.
-- Edited by Stranger on Monday 18th of February 2013 01:49:11 AM
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Sure, tips happen. Had an old woman with dementia throw a fifty at me once during an episode. Would have resisted if she were not likely to get violent. Our handbooks reads that we cannot solicit tips. So, fully rule compliant, I never ask for tips ever (That would be insane anyway, someone would complain). If customers feel that I have performed well enough to freely offer me a tip, that is just a sign that I am fully operating the Kroger customer first strategy.
-- Edited by Stranger on Monday 18th of February 2013 01:49:11 AM
very good point about it specifically mentioning soliciting a tip. will have to remember that in the future.
I accepted tips. I worked as a courtesy clerk taking items out and generally being a slave. Being as courtesies almost NEVER received raises, then I saw NO PROBLEM accepting tips.
In the meat department the wrapper and I split a $20 tip one time. The people brought us a card and thanked us for providing fresh meat to them on a weekly basis. How can we refuse that gesture? It would be insulting to decline.
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Well then I just asked about this because today is my 2nd day without tests and someone tipped me $20, my ques was tho if it was allowed. Do you know if it's allowed?
