Walking into my apartment building yesterday afternoon, I noticed a piece of paper taped right at eye level. At first, I thought it was just another generic "please lock the door" notice, but it turned out to be this.
It’s definitely a bold move to print and post a flyer asking for tips. On one hand, I totally get it—delivery work is grueling, especially with the heavy lifting and weather we’ve been having here in Germany. I’ve seen our regular delivery guys lugging huge packages up the stairs, and it’s definitely hard work.
On the other hand, it feels a bit awkward having it posted as a notice for everyone to see. It’s definitely sparked some debate in my head about the expectations around tipping versus the reality of their working conditions.
Has anyone else encountered something like this in their building? Is this becoming a common thing?
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I work Hard every day too .. where is my tip?
I dont know .. But this annoying. Companies have to give a better salary then .. why should i pay for the shitty salaries? Or The politics have to take Action ..
We had this topic somewhere else on reddit today (German speaking)
Not a common thing. Also tipping delivery personelle is not common in Germany. Some people might do it, but it is in general not expected.
Are you sure it isnt from a neighbour?
No tipping culture Germany…no one is obligated to tip.
WTF. No, it’s not a common thing and I refuse to let it become a common thing. I don’t want tipping culture here, I want people to be paid a decent, reliable salary.
I just saw it in the Hamburg Sub. Are you from Hamburg? Looks like an organized action.
You know what, when I order something in the 30-100kg range and have delivery drivers bring those packages up the stairs I will tip them for that work.
The only time that may have happened was when I ordered my furniture and wasnt through some regular delivery company, but if that ever happens I am sure to tip them and probably more than just 50 cents.
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this is hilarious, and absolute bullshit
This goes into the green müll
Oh come on, I don’t get tipped for submitting my code when working or when I help carry equipment at work.
I hate that tipping is becoming more prevalent in Germany
I tip someone that brings my foot when i am too lazy to even get outside and let someone else cook my food. It just feels crazy to me let someone cook my food and then even pay someone to bring my food. It just feels like it is such a ridiculous luxurious thing that i feel bad not tipping someone that has to deliver my food.
Yes they have a shitty job. But I’m paying between 3 and 8 Euros to move a fucking box from one place to another.
If there was a store nearby that stocked this stuff, I’d go buy it there, but the whole economy is now focused on online shopping and leading to the death of physical stores. And the online shopping is built on the backs of the delivery drivers … and it’s up to Amazon and the other shops to pay the drivers a living wage.
This would 100% make me zero-tip for a full year for everybody coming to my door, just to make sure I get the right guy too.
We might as well add tipping service to every industry then. Why do we just limit to one or two industries when we can expand and benefit the bosses.
Ridiculous. Before corona it was pretty standard in the delivery Business to hand over the package on your housedoor even if that meant walking several stories up.
Today they ring your bell (if lucky, sometimes they just give the package to the neighbour in ground floor) yell something like “Paket huso” (I exaggerated a bit here) and they’re off. Want a tip for that? How about no?
What’s next? Am I going to tip the cashier at Lidl because they have to lift food over the register all day?
The problem is the working conditions they are subjected to
Today, any tip is ok
Tomorrow, they are unhappy with 15% like in the USA.
Bullshit.
It’s not mandatory to Tip but also 50 Cent isn’t that much
Keep american shit in america
Tipping is a disgusting american thing, that should stay in America.
Man the passive aggression and sense of entitlement here is insane.
Not common.
Not necessary.
Nobody here used to tip the mail man, the garbage people or the parcel delivery lady.
In Germany all the service charges and delivery fees are included in the retail prices. Tips are not necessary. Everything is all included in the wages and salaries.
This seems more like begging.
They should ask a raise from their employers, I am not going to tip delivery guys so that the huge corpos they work for can make an extra buck by saving on wages. F that.
>Ein kleines Trinkgeld gehört in Deutschland eigentlich zum normalen Anstand und zeigt Wertschätzung für diese Arbeit.
No it doesn’t, especially not delivery drivers.
Also, lets do the math. A delivery driver delivers on average lets say 150 packages a day. Everyone gives 0,50€, that is 75€ per day. On average, they will work 23 days per month, so that is 1.725€ per month just for tips. Some people don’t even make that much per month working their normal 9-5 (I’m talking about what hits the account at the end of the month of course, so netto, most will make more brutto) and delivery drivers now expect this on top of their normal salary. Just when I thought tipping culture couldn’t get any more ridiculous in Germany, someone manages to prove me wrong.
its someone virtue signaling their social heart out. clearly a better human then us.
happy with a service? tip. normal.
tipping because working conditions are grueling: DONT USE THE SERVICE you mindless….move your lazy ass out of the appartment.
this is not directed at op, at the note maker.
I usually do tip the delivery guy if I have some coins at hand and the food arrives within a reasonable time, but if I found this in my hallway I would stop.
I was a manager of a Food Delivery Restaurant and also drove out some deliveries myself. No way in Hell are delivery drivers delivering 100kg packages…
I used to do tip.
After I saw this I am not tippig anymore.
Most people living in the building probably earn barely more than the driver and are somehow supposed to tip them?
Imagine you work in a shipping warehouse for minimum wage, 8 hours a day. The driver earns more than you, you come home, and people tell you you are supposed to tip them. Wtf.
There are many people working at Minimum wage, or barely above, that get no tips.
Well but it’s not just 50cent. It’s 50cent for every delivery, somewhere between 2-10€ for eating out, 1-2€ for a taxi drive, 1-2€ for food delivery, whatever amount appropriate for hairdressers… and where do we stop? Why doesn’t the minimum wage retail worker get tips but the waiter does? Why the barkeeper but not the barista? Where the hell do we draw the line?
I‘m not gonna let me shame into giving tips. My hairdresser gets one because I‘m very happy there and feel like her price is more than fair for what I get and usually I round up when I eat out out of habit except if the service is bad. But the expectation needs to stop.
write ,,Augen auf bei der Berufswahl” on it.
This is some insulting bullshit.
Why is DHL not raising the hourly wage by 50c if it ain’t that much?
These big delivery companies are exploiting workers left and right, and push the result on end users.
I used to tip the delivery personnel quite well back in covid times (i was living in Germany at that time). Otherwise i don’t remember this being a big thing
It is not common courtesy in Germany, just because us companies import their poor payment to us, we are not responsible for their business to keep low personnel cost. Workers there need to unionize and fight for appropriate compensation.
My delivery driver gets something on Easter, on his Birthday and on Christmas.
BUT
I live in a pretty rural village and know my driver for almost 10 years.
This is absolutely not common in Germany.
I thought it was the intro to Star Wars for a sec
I strongly suggest Germans NOT adopt USA tipping culture! It is retrograde. Workers must demand better wages!
Someone trying to bring the American way to Germany. Nice try. Hahaha Interesting is the manipulative tone of the note. Can’t imagine that will go over well in Germany.
For people paying 50c to €1 and considering themselves as great humanitarians , please go and live in the US and tip. You will understand how businesses will start exploiting this tip culture and make you feel guilty for poor working conditions or wages. Soon every driver, barista, waiter will expect a minimum of 25% tip and your measly 50c and €2 tip wont work anymore.
I don’t see why it should be my problem.