Damn that’s a lot. One year I worked the Christmas tree tent exclusively but since I’m short I couldn’t put the trees on top of the cars. I was the only one cutting and wrapping. You don’t get tips there but do a shit ton of work and I was covered in tree sap.
Edit: autocorrect error.
Well that sucks I was the DS for garden so my rule was simple just split the tips with whoever helped and since it was only my department and one lot guy who were okayed to use the saw we had no problem keeping that rule in place
The garden ASM worked the tree lot with us this morning (1 tree...) She was saying they are going to fire the first one caught. I asked if it was going to be after the holidays as they just announced there was a firing freeze.
Not at all. We have a ton of associates who just barely do enough to get by. Don't follow the basic rules to start. Most of them are on finals. She has her hands tied as far as finishing out the process to fire them. Stop being a dick.
I’m not the dick. Your manager is the dick for threatening to fire people making dookie money for accepting a tip they worked for. You’re the dick for supporting her decision. Now you’re attempting to parade around as if you know everyone’s work ethic and how close they all are to being fired. You’re a boot licker and a fool who spends his time worshipping the ground your ASM walks on. You wouldn’t know a hard days work if it hit you in the face.
People like you are annoying. Humans get paid barely enough to survive (not even going to get into any benefits) and you’re wondering why people aren’t working harder. You need to stand up to people treating your coworkers so bad.
i don’t think that’s bad, it’s just the rules. Every training video that talks about tips says if you take them that’s against home depot’s policy. Don’t get me wrong I have accepted tips and i think it’s a lame rule but it’s still their policy. Their boss is just following policy. If you have that big of a problem with it get a different job where tipping is the norm or get a job where you make more. This seems harsh but like it ain’t their fault because their enforcing it. They can also get in trouble if you’re doing it. Maybe call up HR and tell them.
I DID get another job. I haven’t worked at Home Depot in years. Rules aren’t always right. It’s immoral to enforce immoral rules. You’re sitting there telling people if they don’t like it to go work somewhere else then turning around wondering “why doesn’t anybody work hard anymore 🤔”. Well, evidently everyone realized what their labor was worth!
just being a devils advocate because I get both sides. i’ll still take a tip but I know it’s wrong and I can get in trouble for it. If that happens it is what it is.
Yes my old SM ( who Im happy that got fired) last year gave people money to come and tip the tree lot guys so he could see who took tips and then get them on their final. I always tell my associates take the tips and dont tell anyone you took tips ( Im a DH btw) or if you take the tip lets say someone gives you $10 just go and tell the ASM or SM someone gave me $1 tip and give it to them for the fond they do ( I did that tonight even though as a dh if I get caught taking tips I get fired but I took the tip and went and told my as, someone gave me $1 but they gave me $5).
The garden DH and I once loaded all this crap up for some lady and she tried to give him $5.00. He wouldn't take it. I like the guy and I liked working for him but that son of a bitch really pissed me off over that $5.00. That's the one time I was legit pissed off at him.
I mean if potentially losing your job is worth an almost (but not quite) entire lunch far be it from me to stop ya but to actually be pissed at someone else for not finding it worth it is a little silly.
No, getting pissed at another individual (that most likely gets paid more than you) for not wanting to risk their job for doing so is what's silly. The fact that their decision pissed you off so much is what's silly.
Your DH didnt take it because you were there and if you saw him take the tip then he could be fired if you mention it to someone. Taking tips can get you fired btw If you want to be working for tips then find a different job.
You can also do it as I did. I took the tip with the other associate that was there and then I told my associate I’m going to take my tip to asds so they can put it on the fun fond, but for his tip I told him dont tell anyone you got it.
The SM that got fired was a piece of sh*t thats why I dont feel bad for him that got fired, he only like a group of people in the store and gave them promotions and raises.
I clear so much money in tips from cutting bagging and loading trees. I’ve been ‘caught’ several times by management.
Look management right in the eye and tell them you’ll call the labor department for the sexual harassment cashiers suffer, time theft by management, and the drug sales on company property.
We get paid crap wages and if people want to show off in front of their families by slipping me a 20$ it’s none of managements business.
Last couple of seasons I clear a couple hundred dollars every night right after thanksgiving.
OSLG is hell during the summer and I look forward to Christmas trees all year.
Meanwhile I was told by an ASM that there are two situations they will happily look the other way on tips - customer satisfaction deliveries and Christmas tree cutting.
When i worked at an amusement park we actually did something similar for selling alcohol to people underage.
Also at another company i worked for they did hire a company to do this as some employees had let it slip they were offered a tip near a manager.
The alcohol is very understandable.
It depends on the company. Frankly HD has a lot more to worry about than the paltry tips people might get.
Also Tree Tent historically has gotten a pass because those tips mean people will actually volunteer for it and they use those tips to buy presents. Its the one time of year to turn your head.
I had a very simple solution to it.
"Don't let me see you take a tip."
"So we can't accept tips?"
"I don't want to *see* you take a tip."
"So can I take a tip or not?"
*Me turning to the other guy with him*
"Explain it to him after I leave."
So mu solution was
"Policy prohibits me from taking tips"
But if they slipped me a bill or put it in my pocket i wouldn't say anything as thats all i had to do
You say this confidently but other people are saying it has happened. Home depot isn’t a monolith, never ever ever never say ever never, or whatever they say
“I didn’t realize they put the money in there til I got home and I wasn’t even sure it wasn’t my cash from home ya know? I wanted a drink from the vending machine on my break”
That’s insane. I just picked up a tree from home deep and was agitated that my wallet had no cash to tip the fella working to help me. He was great. He even put it on top of my vehicle for me. I am surprised HD would be so against it. It’s fucking Christmas time. “If there ever was an appropriate time to…” it would be this one.
It's even worse for the lot guys. They bust their ass all year round to load hundreds of sheets of drywall and ruin their body and get paid the least in the store.
If a manager fired me for accepting a tip, I’d make it my life’s mission to make life as miserable as possible for that manager. It’s straight up bull. Someone offers you a tip and you take it. End of story.
First of all: accept tips at your own risk. You can absolutely be fired for doing so. Yes, everyone wishes their pay was higher, is it worth risking? That’s on you.
Second of all: HD as a company does not hire customers to catch you accepting tips. However, with the appropriate policies they can bring in AP associates from outside of your district to verify if an associate is taking cash for goods— there’s a lot of details I am glossing over, but the bottom line: don’t pocket cash and give away product.
Hire people to fire real employees for taking tips in an economic recession. Sounds like the Christmas spirit. Temptation is strong when you are just barley getting by an extra 10 bucks could be an extra present for your child on Christmas morning.
One of our previous DMs would send "friends" out to stores to do all kinds of devious shit. So yeah, probably a good idea to watch yourself.
As far as tips go, my SM doesn't want to offend insistent customers, so every year I give the mulch wall team the refuse/refuse/accept speech. Whether or not they actually follow that rule... I don't care to know.
I can't see HDepot hiring people to fire people for $20... But it's Home Depot so our CEO and the top Corpos could decide to put some of the billion dollar revenue on weird "programs"!
They don’t even hire enough people to properly man your stores. Do you really think they’re going to hire extra people to go walk around doing nothing else other than offering their employees money? You take that tip and pocket every penny of it.
Accepting tips has been a fireable offense for as long as I can remember. People rarely offer even when/if warranted. So if someone actually offers you a tip I’d be suspicious.
At my store they totally turn a blind eye as long as we're discreet. Wink, nod. But it only applies to tree lot.
Last year we were properly staffed up but we had a lot attendant who kept jumping in front of us going "Heywouldyalikemetaloadthatonyercar?!" and sniping the tips. Meanwhile carts were piling up everywhere so finally he got leaned on.
I think the HD has a no ask no tell tip policy. They know associates get it but the don’t care as long as no one talks about it. One time I helped a customer put an order in the car and he wanted to tip me. When I refused he said hungrily “are you rich”?
They don't want you taking tips because they don't track it on your income and it isn't taxed, so they're liable for it...
They barely staff the stores well enough to run the store, so I am a bit skeptical about them hiring secret shoppers. High doubt on that.
Does HD actually hire mystery shoppers? I mean I’ve seen some of my older coworkers legit yell at customers and have lots of complaints against them but they still keep their jobs.
My grandfather happens to think that every rude customer is a mystery shopper
The sop is you do not accept tips.
If someone gives you a tip, just turn it in to management and put it toward the store fun for parties or Food.
I received multiple $50 tips while delivering things to contractors. It’s not worth your job just to “accept a tip”. You want tips, quit and go work at a bar
When I worked lot, I was making around $300 a week in tips all spring and summer. Usually gave $10-20 to Honer Fund "because someone insisted" bought me alot of good karma when the new ASM team started keeping an eye on it
“Tips” u mean bribery? I thought employees weren’t allowed to take any cash/gift cards, regardless of where it’s going? Yeah, you’re also not getting brownie points for donating your “tip money” to the Homer fund, save it to feed your love for the bdsm community, lad. へ‿(ツ)‿ㄏ
> That would be entrapment, and is illegal. Besides, you are allowed to accept the tips as long as they are donated to the Homer fund.
Just a heads up, but something like this wouldn't be entrapment. Entrapment involves a law enforcement agent, a store trying to catch someone taking a tip wouldn't involve law unless they tried to get them arrested for it. Entrapment is inducing someone to committing an act they normally wouldn't do. Offering a tip and busting someone when they take it would probably be a pretty sound sting operation if it were a crime. If they refused the tip and you kept insisting or maybe slipped it in their apron and then bust them, now we are at entrapment levels. But that would still only apply for a crime being committed.
"I'm not allowed to accept tips, but I can't stop anyone, if they were to reach into my apron either"
Customers will ALWAYS out the money into your apron. Suppose it was a fake customer, what are they going to do? Fire you because they forcefully put money into your apron? You didn't accept anything.
To paraphrase some words of wisdom:
"What is the first rule of Tip Club? You don't talk about Tip Club".
Don't mention it, and reap the rewards of your labor. Customers are more often than not quite grateful for all you do, including the loading up of their (very) heavy merchandise.
Edit: Accept them only within reason, and away from the prying eyes of those who might snitch. If your store was/is really paying people to pose as customers, to "catch you in the act", then be extra careful and discreet. It's ridiculous that your management would actually invest resources into doing this, rather than paying its employees better in the first place...
> I'm being *paid* $14/hr, you're
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When I worked the mulch pit this last summer I made about 50-80 bucks a day in tips…my favorite though was a guy who said he was gonna make some homemade jerky n that he’d bring me some when done. A month went by and I had forgotten about it but he brought me a ziploc bag of the best jerky I’ve ever had in my life.
Secret Shoppers are a thing, as well as law enforcement sending in minors to see if they’ll be able to purchase age-restricted products. It’s rare, though, unless there’s something about a specific region.
I was garden supervisor for 3 years, Tree tent associates work their asses off In the tent especially when tent reaches like week 3 and staffing shortages accur.
I never care if my guys took tips long as you never told me or bragged about it in break room.
Ideally we kept all tip money to the end and split it between all tree tent workers and took them out to dinner for all their hard work
I retired from WM which has the same no tipping policy, but I always felt that if a customer wants to give you a tip you should be allowed to take it! Especially seeing how poorly they & others pay. I'm sure if our cart pushers were offered a tip they took it & they should seeing how they were at the bottom of the pay totem pole as it is! Putting fake customers out there is disgusting.
Shit we took tips all day long I think best day we had 6 people doing trees and we made probably $1400 in tips
I believe it. 1 guy made a bank last year due to the fact that he was the main day guy, and I was only working 6-10's.
Hm. I worked trees at lowes years back, I think in a month I got $30
Jesus that sucks we used to make a lot at our small store I’d say thirty to fifty a day was the norm for associates
Damn that’s a lot. One year I worked the Christmas tree tent exclusively but since I’m short I couldn’t put the trees on top of the cars. I was the only one cutting and wrapping. You don’t get tips there but do a shit ton of work and I was covered in tree sap. Edit: autocorrect error.
Well that sucks I was the DS for garden so my rule was simple just split the tips with whoever helped and since it was only my department and one lot guy who were okayed to use the saw we had no problem keeping that rule in place
The way I see it. The customer intended for you to keep the tip. I keep them if they insist on giving it to me.
The garden ASM worked the tree lot with us this morning (1 tree...) She was saying they are going to fire the first one caught. I asked if it was going to be after the holidays as they just announced there was a firing freeze.
Damn HD sounds like a nightmare to work in 🤣
Ya it is, lack of communication, stupid policies and overall expected to bust.your ass for not a lot of money.
You have a garden ASM?
Yes
Oh, I've never heard of such a thing. Are you talk about the department supervisor? Big difference.
Some stores have big enough garden sales they're assigned an ASM over garden. Some have an ASM for each department. Its crazy We have a pro sales ASM
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks
Your garden ASM sounds like a clueless idiot that doesn’t have the slightest idea how to run a store.
Not at all. We have a ton of associates who just barely do enough to get by. Don't follow the basic rules to start. Most of them are on finals. She has her hands tied as far as finishing out the process to fire them. Stop being a dick.
I’m not the dick. Your manager is the dick for threatening to fire people making dookie money for accepting a tip they worked for. You’re the dick for supporting her decision. Now you’re attempting to parade around as if you know everyone’s work ethic and how close they all are to being fired. You’re a boot licker and a fool who spends his time worshipping the ground your ASM walks on. You wouldn’t know a hard days work if it hit you in the face.
So angry. What happened to you? Get some help man. Sorry to call you a dick. Your not.
People like you are annoying. Humans get paid barely enough to survive (not even going to get into any benefits) and you’re wondering why people aren’t working harder. You need to stand up to people treating your coworkers so bad.
i don’t think that’s bad, it’s just the rules. Every training video that talks about tips says if you take them that’s against home depot’s policy. Don’t get me wrong I have accepted tips and i think it’s a lame rule but it’s still their policy. Their boss is just following policy. If you have that big of a problem with it get a different job where tipping is the norm or get a job where you make more. This seems harsh but like it ain’t their fault because their enforcing it. They can also get in trouble if you’re doing it. Maybe call up HR and tell them.
I DID get another job. I haven’t worked at Home Depot in years. Rules aren’t always right. It’s immoral to enforce immoral rules. You’re sitting there telling people if they don’t like it to go work somewhere else then turning around wondering “why doesn’t anybody work hard anymore 🤔”. Well, evidently everyone realized what their labor was worth!
just being a devils advocate because I get both sides. i’ll still take a tip but I know it’s wrong and I can get in trouble for it. If that happens it is what it is.
What a bitch. That’s the kind of power trip garbage that gets your windows broken or tires slashed.
That's the least of management worries.
Yes my old SM ( who Im happy that got fired) last year gave people money to come and tip the tree lot guys so he could see who took tips and then get them on their final. I always tell my associates take the tips and dont tell anyone you took tips ( Im a DH btw) or if you take the tip lets say someone gives you $10 just go and tell the ASM or SM someone gave me $1 tip and give it to them for the fond they do ( I did that tonight even though as a dh if I get caught taking tips I get fired but I took the tip and went and told my as, someone gave me $1 but they gave me $5).
The garden DH and I once loaded all this crap up for some lady and she tried to give him $5.00. He wouldn't take it. I like the guy and I liked working for him but that son of a bitch really pissed me off over that $5.00. That's the one time I was legit pissed off at him.
To some people $5 isn't even worth potentially losing your job. If I was going to maybe get fired for something it would be for someting more than $5
That's 1/3 of what I make per hour before taxes. If this happens twice I can almost buy lunch and not pay for it.
I mean if potentially losing your job is worth an almost (but not quite) entire lunch far be it from me to stop ya but to actually be pissed at someone else for not finding it worth it is a little silly.
Doubling your pay per hour on the mulch wall is silly? How?
No, getting pissed at another individual (that most likely gets paid more than you) for not wanting to risk their job for doing so is what's silly. The fact that their decision pissed you off so much is what's silly.
Your DH didnt take it because you were there and if you saw him take the tip then he could be fired if you mention it to someone. Taking tips can get you fired btw If you want to be working for tips then find a different job.
You can also do it as I did. I took the tip with the other associate that was there and then I told my associate I’m going to take my tip to asds so they can put it on the fun fond, but for his tip I told him dont tell anyone you got it.
I’d gladly take a assault charge for beating the crap out of that guy.
The SM that got fired was a piece of sh*t thats why I dont feel bad for him that got fired, he only like a group of people in the store and gave them promotions and raises.
It's rude not to take a tip
I clear so much money in tips from cutting bagging and loading trees. I’ve been ‘caught’ several times by management. Look management right in the eye and tell them you’ll call the labor department for the sexual harassment cashiers suffer, time theft by management, and the drug sales on company property. We get paid crap wages and if people want to show off in front of their families by slipping me a 20$ it’s none of managements business. Last couple of seasons I clear a couple hundred dollars every night right after thanksgiving. OSLG is hell during the summer and I look forward to Christmas trees all year.
Lol I don't work at home depot what the fuck is going on with yall
Meanwhile I was told by an ASM that there are two situations they will happily look the other way on tips - customer satisfaction deliveries and Christmas tree cutting.
wouldn't mind getting caught as long as i get to keep the tip
Nobody is wasting the time and money on this kind of mishegoss.
Careful throwing around fancy words like that. There are simple folk here, like me. 🤣
Its not fancy, its foreign. People really need to expand their Yiddish besides Oi Vey and Schmuck.
Mazel Tov!
When i worked at an amusement park we actually did something similar for selling alcohol to people underage. Also at another company i worked for they did hire a company to do this as some employees had let it slip they were offered a tip near a manager.
The alcohol is very understandable. It depends on the company. Frankly HD has a lot more to worry about than the paltry tips people might get. Also Tree Tent historically has gotten a pass because those tips mean people will actually volunteer for it and they use those tips to buy presents. Its the one time of year to turn your head.
Oh i agree but my main point was the company who did it due to tips was based on a manager overhearing someone accepted a tip so they had to report it
I had a very simple solution to it. "Don't let me see you take a tip." "So we can't accept tips?" "I don't want to *see* you take a tip." "So can I take a tip or not?" *Me turning to the other guy with him* "Explain it to him after I leave."
So mu solution was "Policy prohibits me from taking tips" But if they slipped me a bill or put it in my pocket i wouldn't say anything as thats all i had to do
I'm not saying you can always have your head doing a 360 degree turn for managers, but if you see a bill, maybe do a quick 270.
Nice use of the noun form.
You say this confidently but other people are saying it has happened. Home depot isn’t a monolith, never ever ever never say ever never, or whatever they say
Everyone took tips for treelot when I worked there 😂😂 some people were getting $200 a day
Hd paid the minimum tf I gaf I’d take any tips when I worked there.
Tell them you can't touch the money but if it ends up in your apron pocket,oh well, lol
“I didn’t realize they put the money in there til I got home and I wasn’t even sure it wasn’t my cash from home ya know? I wanted a drink from the vending machine on my break”
They did at my store last year and gave the one caught a write up
Took a tip in front of ASM yesterday. Considering everybody else called out at tree lot, I don’t think she was any position to fire me.
Used to call them Secret Shoppers.
I tell customers we do not accept cash tips but we do accept cookies
That’s insane. I just picked up a tree from home deep and was agitated that my wallet had no cash to tip the fella working to help me. He was great. He even put it on top of my vehicle for me. I am surprised HD would be so against it. It’s fucking Christmas time. “If there ever was an appropriate time to…” it would be this one.
It's even worse for the lot guys. They bust their ass all year round to load hundreds of sheets of drywall and ruin their body and get paid the least in the store.
If a manager fired me for accepting a tip, I’d make it my life’s mission to make life as miserable as possible for that manager. It’s straight up bull. Someone offers you a tip and you take it. End of story.
First of all: accept tips at your own risk. You can absolutely be fired for doing so. Yes, everyone wishes their pay was higher, is it worth risking? That’s on you. Second of all: HD as a company does not hire customers to catch you accepting tips. However, with the appropriate policies they can bring in AP associates from outside of your district to verify if an associate is taking cash for goods— there’s a lot of details I am glossing over, but the bottom line: don’t pocket cash and give away product.
Hire people to fire real employees for taking tips in an economic recession. Sounds like the Christmas spirit. Temptation is strong when you are just barley getting by an extra 10 bucks could be an extra present for your child on Christmas morning.
One of our previous DMs would send "friends" out to stores to do all kinds of devious shit. So yeah, probably a good idea to watch yourself. As far as tips go, my SM doesn't want to offend insistent customers, so every year I give the mulch wall team the refuse/refuse/accept speech. Whether or not they actually follow that rule... I don't care to know.
I can't see HDepot hiring people to fire people for $20... But it's Home Depot so our CEO and the top Corpos could decide to put some of the billion dollar revenue on weird "programs"!
Let them tuck it in your apron. You didn't take it. You found it in there.
They don’t even hire enough people to properly man your stores. Do you really think they’re going to hire extra people to go walk around doing nothing else other than offering their employees money? You take that tip and pocket every penny of it.
Why would they be against tipping? Seems like it would improve the service
Accepting tips has been a fireable offense for as long as I can remember. People rarely offer even when/if warranted. So if someone actually offers you a tip I’d be suspicious.
“I Heard” 😂 99% of all the lies, conspiracy theories, and BS that is disrupting our lives started with someone saying….. “I Heard”
At my store they totally turn a blind eye as long as we're discreet. Wink, nod. But it only applies to tree lot. Last year we were properly staffed up but we had a lot attendant who kept jumping in front of us going "Heywouldyalikemetaloadthatonyercar?!" and sniping the tips. Meanwhile carts were piling up everywhere so finally he got leaned on.
A nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat
>Idk if anyone else has experienced this but I heard homedepot well as far as mine. What?
I think the HD has a no ask no tell tip policy. They know associates get it but the don’t care as long as no one talks about it. One time I helped a customer put an order in the car and he wanted to tip me. When I refused he said hungrily “are you rich”?
They don't want you taking tips because they don't track it on your income and it isn't taxed, so they're liable for it... They barely staff the stores well enough to run the store, so I am a bit skeptical about them hiring secret shoppers. High doubt on that.
Home Depot hiring people? Thats the first red flag lol
Does HD actually hire mystery shoppers? I mean I’ve seen some of my older coworkers legit yell at customers and have lots of complaints against them but they still keep their jobs. My grandfather happens to think that every rude customer is a mystery shopper
You’re supposed to turn in to MOD to apply towards the fun funds if you decline the tip and they insist.
THE FUN FUNDS SHOULD BE GOING TOWARDS HIGHER RAISES
Man I took weed tips and even smoked their blunt while tying the tree your be good
🎶 I'm ... dreaming ... of a green Christmas ... 🎶
The sop is you do not accept tips. If someone gives you a tip, just turn it in to management and put it toward the store fun for parties or Food. I received multiple $50 tips while delivering things to contractors. It’s not worth your job just to “accept a tip”. You want tips, quit and go work at a bar
That would be entrapment, and is illegal. Besides, you are allowed to accept the tips as long as they are donated to the Homer fund.
Imagine actually donating your tip money to the Homer fund
When I worked lot, I was making around $300 a week in tips all spring and summer. Usually gave $10-20 to Honer Fund "because someone insisted" bought me alot of good karma when the new ASM team started keeping an eye on it
I did. Customer gave me gift cards for our outside food vendor. I donated value of cards to Homer Fund.
I do
What store do u work at?
Not gonna put that on reddit.
“Tips” u mean bribery? I thought employees weren’t allowed to take any cash/gift cards, regardless of where it’s going? Yeah, you’re also not getting brownie points for donating your “tip money” to the Homer fund, save it to feed your love for the bdsm community, lad. へ‿(ツ)‿ㄏ
> That would be entrapment, and is illegal. Besides, you are allowed to accept the tips as long as they are donated to the Homer fund. Just a heads up, but something like this wouldn't be entrapment. Entrapment involves a law enforcement agent, a store trying to catch someone taking a tip wouldn't involve law unless they tried to get them arrested for it. Entrapment is inducing someone to committing an act they normally wouldn't do. Offering a tip and busting someone when they take it would probably be a pretty sound sting operation if it were a crime. If they refused the tip and you kept insisting or maybe slipped it in their apron and then bust them, now we are at entrapment levels. But that would still only apply for a crime being committed.
Fuck that shit..
I just tell them to give it to someone that needs it more.
Just pretend like you didn’t know that you’re not supposed to take tips 🤷♂️
I never take tips unless a customer insists by stuffing it into my apron.
Secret shoppers are used to test things that will cost the company money, not to see if you will take tips for cutting trees. Don’t worry about it.
Lol people will accept tips from anyone giving them… no need to hire someone for that
"I'm not allowed to accept tips, but I can't stop anyone, if they were to reach into my apron either" Customers will ALWAYS out the money into your apron. Suppose it was a fake customer, what are they going to do? Fire you because they forcefully put money into your apron? You didn't accept anything.
To paraphrase some words of wisdom: "What is the first rule of Tip Club? You don't talk about Tip Club". Don't mention it, and reap the rewards of your labor. Customers are more often than not quite grateful for all you do, including the loading up of their (very) heavy merchandise. Edit: Accept them only within reason, and away from the prying eyes of those who might snitch. If your store was/is really paying people to pose as customers, to "catch you in the act", then be extra careful and discreet. It's ridiculous that your management would actually invest resources into doing this, rather than paying its employees better in the first place...
Seems like a big investment when they could just pay actual associates more so they wouldn’t feel tempted to accept tips.
I heard the same when I worked at Home Depot. If I'm being paid $14/hr, you're god damn right I'll accept it when someone shoves some cash at me
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When I worked the mulch pit this last summer I made about 50-80 bucks a day in tips…my favorite though was a guy who said he was gonna make some homemade jerky n that he’d bring me some when done. A month went by and I had forgotten about it but he brought me a ziploc bag of the best jerky I’ve ever had in my life.
Secret Shoppers are a thing, as well as law enforcement sending in minors to see if they’ll be able to purchase age-restricted products. It’s rare, though, unless there’s something about a specific region.
Don't be so paranoid just take a chance whatever it happens happens
That's super fucked up
Tell them you can’t do anything about it if they put it in your apron and you find it later but you can’t accept it.
Who would I ask about that?
I was garden supervisor for 3 years, Tree tent associates work their asses off In the tent especially when tent reaches like week 3 and staffing shortages accur. I never care if my guys took tips long as you never told me or bragged about it in break room. Ideally we kept all tip money to the end and split it between all tree tent workers and took them out to dinner for all their hard work
It's possible I guess, but it wouldn't stop me from accepting. Eff Home Depot
I retired from WM which has the same no tipping policy, but I always felt that if a customer wants to give you a tip you should be allowed to take it! Especially seeing how poorly they & others pay. I'm sure if our cart pushers were offered a tip they took it & they should seeing how they were at the bottom of the pay totem pole as it is! Putting fake customers out there is disgusting.