I was thought what you want in life you don't ask for from others you work for it and earn it yourself, there is nothing wrong with gifting people you know and care for and even doing it lavishly, but to gift lavishly to a any SP whose real name you don't even know, who is earning $250/hr+ and in many cases more than what her clients are making does not make any sense and IMO is stupid.
There are a lot of less fortunate people in this world, hell even in our own country who live in poverty or can't even feed their families because they make minimum wage, next time anyone is thinking of lavishly gifting a service provider who is already making a great living at $250/hr+ think about those people.
Self-entitlement in today's North American society is real and it does look like less and less people want to work for what they have and want what they want right now and are completely fine with receiving it from strangers.
Are you seriously telling me that if you went to work and someone, a client, or an employee, etc came in with a gift for you, you would turn it down? I don't think so.
Are you seriously telling me that if someone said they wanted to gift you something and wanted some ideas of what you may like that you would not tell them anything? I don't think so.
There is a difference between self-entitlement and simply accepting a gift. Don't call me self-entitled because I accepted chocolates from a client. Don't call me self-entitled for putting a gift list on my site when I was repeatedly asked by clients at Christmas, what they could bring for me. Even after I would protest and tell them it is not needed, they don't have too, etc.
Don't call me self-entitled when I equally gift clients. Two who have actually posted in this thread.
I am not a person who asked to borrow money and never have. I have been taking care of myself since I was a teen and out of the house.
You are generalizing and lumping all of us together. I mean fucking self-entitled bitches getting a box of chocolate. Who the fuck do they think they are? Right?
Very true.
And a very weird thing, since the vast majority of people work at jobs that don't involves tips.
And it's not like an SP job is one where someone is making lousy wages and needs any buck they can get to get by (ie. a server working at a crappy restaurant).
So what you get is greedy people grabbing any buck they can get, even if it's from customers an SP truly knows might be kind of weird, naive, but some reason gifting. I highly doubt many SPs turn down freebies. But in some lines of work, freebies will be taken (and sometimes "expected" or else the client is called cheap).
If someone offered tips to avg people working in avg jobs, I don't think that many people will take it. And if they do, they'll think something weird is going on. And surely they won't plaster it on Twitter. If someone works in an office making average wages and suddenly every time you do an assignment someone comes by and wants to tip you like you are broke and need every dime someone offers, I think most people will say no thanks.
In most other countries, tipping/gifting isn't a norm.... even for waiter jobs. You leave a tip, and they'll think you are a rich asshole thinking they are poor scum. I've had people take my tip (didn't know at the time in that place), and hand it back to me.
Never seen that in Canada.
I have left tips for retail workers who spent an hour on me picking out the perfect outfit. Right here in the Canada!!!! Crazy, I know. What is even more crazy..... they took the tip, enjoyed the tip, was very shocked and happy to recieve a tip. They felt apprecaited and that was the point.
So crazy....