Tipping

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28530, 8 March 1958, Page 3

Tipping

Sir, —As a full-time steward let me congratulate M.T. on his references to tipping. Many the time I have bestowed the. ingratiating smile in the hope of a tip, but the well cupped palm has often been disappointed When I first began work as a steward I felt that tips were beneath mv dignity and they used to embarass me. However I have now become an eager acceptor and see to it that the tipper receives good service while the non-tipper is quietly ignored. My change of attitude occured after I received my first week’s pay for 40 hours from Monday to Friday, £8 19s lOd. I found that this was not enough to pay my bills in the Welfare State, notwithstanding that a very generous employer used to give me jars of soup and unused portions of the hot ioint to take home to the family. M.T’s reference to ‘‘so-called democracy” is beyond me. As I see rt the bigger the tips I get the more democracy exists. In conclusion, the tips are taxable but the soup and cold joints are not. Anyhow we are having caviare now.—Yours etc. NOT M.T. March 6, 1958.