Being Generous While Appreciating

Happy weekend to everyone 🥰❤️.

Showing appreciation through tipping is something that comes from the mind which I believe many who does it are those who knows what appreciating others means. And being generous with tipping people for work or services they carried out should be a willing gestures not a forceful or mandatory.

This in other words means tipping should be considered optional because if tipping is seen as something we must give even when we don’t feel like, it is then seen as an obligation we owe to the workers at the supermarket or organizations that we have businesses with.

For me I see tipping as a free will act I choose to do from my heart when I have received a good service from a cashier at the supermarket counter, a well polite receptionist or front desk officer of a company or that security/attendant at the gate where I go to obtain businesses. Tipping is something we give to others because of how we felt about how they treated us or attended to us , showing we appreciated them because we were made comfortable while dealing with them.

I have encountered many experiences from people wanting to be tipped after a visit to their office especially the security men at the gate, but tipping is not what I do all the time because I see it as something I must do at the right time. Meaning, if I constantly visits a place or frequents an organization, I will not be tipping those who needs to be tipped at all times as not to create room for them seeing it as an obligation.

Many who deserved to be tipped are those who most times don’t expect from you, but because of how they need to be encouraged from the work they do and how they go extra miles trying to put a perfect service out there, they are appreciated and will be given sone tips which is seen as being generous and showing gratitude. This is not something that should be forced but a whole gesture from ones mind.

The tipping culture is something that takes place all over the world 🌎 but in different ways. I have also been tipped from my clients when I do extra jobs for them showing appreciation. The most extreme experiences of this culture in my country is the ones with officers on the road called the policemen 👮‍♀️. These set of personal has made tipping in my country a forceful and mandatory thing. Initially, traveling with your papers or documents being accurate is what many travelers 🧳 make sure to care about but because of tipping, many do not care to renew there documents when it expires because they believe that even if their papers are correct, they will still tip the police 👮‍♀️ officers because I myself did encountered this very issue on a trip with my family. In fact, the driver I used for trip told me to set out some amount aside for tipping, although in small denominations since we must be stopped. All he does is to just slip the money 💰 into their hands and we move. Its was not funny 😆 but that is what it is. And many travelers 🧳 keep experiencing this challenges

In conclusion, I do not see tipping as something bad, but an act that should be done willingly . Tipping should be an appropriation and gratitude towards those who has helped us in service of any kind or from those we have helped too, But making it a mandatory or forceful is not what it should be because many will capitalize on expecting tipping rather than working and putting efforts in the work they are paid for.

This is my entry to the #hivelearners featured content for week 139 topic, tagged “When Should I Tip?

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