Tipping the cable guy...

[Arcadio]

Do I tip the cable guy?

 

[gorcorps]

No, I'm pretty sure he gets paid an assload.

 

[Rumpltzer]

WTF?

 

[dartworth]

sure..why not

 

[Maximus96]

tip if he's doing any extras for you. otherwise he gets paid by the cable company

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Um, no. He should be making more than minimum wage anyway. Cable guys are usually electricians with degrees, right?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
No, I'm pretty sure he gets paid an assload.

wtf gave you that idea?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Only if he gives you the porn channels for free.

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Um, no. He should be making more than minimum wage anyway. Cable guys are usually electricians with degrees, right?

I don't think most of them have degrees.

 

[spidey07]

If you do you'll get all the goody channels for free.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Only if he gives you the porn channels for free.

Okay, yeah, fine. If he's doing you "extras" like that, then I'd slip the guy a $20 or a $50.

If I had to wait for an 8 hour window of time for this guy to show up, plug the cable box into the wall and into my TV, hook up a cable modem, and pay the cable company a $40 "installation fee", why the hell would I tip HIM??

 

[FDF12389]

I tipped mine because he gave me basic cable for free. (When I got TWC business class installed)

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Cable guys are usually electricians with degrees, right?

LOL

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

No

 

[FDF12389]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Cable guys are usually electricians with degrees, right?

LOL

Actually around here all the tier II technicians do.

 

[Walking in Circles]

it's not "yay or nay", please learn english

 

[CrazyLazy]

This thread. It's going places.

 

[slightlyhuman]

wat.

 

[LS8]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Cable guys are usually electricians with degrees, right?

You know Independence Day was just a movie, right? Everything in the film was made up, including the cable guy being an MIT grad...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Um, no. He should be making more than minimum wage anyway. Cable guys are usually electricians with degrees, right?

many of us have also won nobel prizes, but we don't like to blow our own horn.

:roll:

 

[CptCrunch]

A friend of mine installed cable for a local cable company, and they paid him $8.50 an hour to install cable in some of the crapest environments. So, no, they dont get paid an assload, and no, I dont tip them. I do my job and I dont get tipped, why should they?

 

[amdhunter]

I was a contracted cable guy off and on for 5 years. (TWC, Manhattan.)

An avg. weekly paycheck was in the 4 digit range. I got tipped maybe $2-300 a week. Times were good. Then 9 fucking 11 happenned and people stopped tipping and the economy took a shit on itself.

I miss the good old days.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: FDF12389

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Cable guys are usually electricians with degrees, right?

LOL

Actually around here all the tier II technicians do.

do your tier ii techs perform installs?

 

[LS8]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
I was a contracted cable guy off and on for 5 years. (TWC, Manhattan.)

An avg. weekly paycheck was in the 4 digit range. I got tipped maybe $2-300 a week. Times were good. Then 9 fucking 11 happenned and people stopped tipping and the economy took a shit on itself.

I miss the good old days.

People stopped tipping because of the terrorist attacks? LOL WUT?

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Um, no. He should be making more than minimum wage anyway. Cable guys are usually electricians with degrees, right?

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