Originally Posted by
Clint Bint
I don't see why I should have to tell I waiter I wish to be left alone.If they were any good at their job they would know that anyway.
It isn't brain surgery but the fact that so may wait staff have difficulty performing even this simplest of tasks correctly shows how tipping people for bad service is plain stupid.
Because you're entering an environment in which the standard procedure is for them to wait attentively on you. If your preference is for them to change the way they work it's on you to tell them that. You're a human being, they're a human being - a bit of common decency goes a long way.
Well I think tipping people at all is plain stupid, but that's beside the point.