Wow. Gas Attendant tip scam...felt like beating the crap out of him.

[SaurusX]

Full service is always a scam. But I guess you gotta pad those employment rolls along with all of the toll takers.

 

[sourceninja]

I live in Indiana, so I've never seen a full service station before. But recently we got one. I had no clue and pulled up to the full service side of the station and got out to pump my gas.

The guy manning the station was pretty pissed off.

 

[Meghan54]

And for all the trash-talking in this thread - he left my gas cap open. That can lead to a CEL.

Guess you haven't figured out by now that if/when a loose gas cap throws a CEL, simply tightening the cap will make the CEL magically disappear.

Imagine that.

 

[Schfifty Five]

OP, what you should have done is given him $55.10. How come you didn't have any change either?

 

[MixMasterTang]

Would you say the same to a waitress or waiter, they just take your order and bring your food.

A waiter or waitress spends more then 2-3 minutes providing me a service. I would imagine a gas station attendant can service 20+ cars per hour. If they each got 10 gallons at 4 bucks a piece, you're saying he should get tips of around $120 an hour (assuming 15%).

 

[IAteYourMother]

Would you say the same to a waitress or waiter, they just take your order and bring your food.

1. Waiters often make less than min wage.
2. Pumping gas takes about as much effort and time as wiping one's own ass.

 

[Krazy4Real]

I'm glad there aren't any full service stations around me.

 

[amdhunter]

OP, what you should have done is given him $55.10. How come you didn't have any change either?

I'm not a merchant. Not my responsibility.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Though not gas station related, the pizza delivery guys in my neighborhood in Brooklyn call you up and try to get you to come downstairs out of your apartment or house to meet them at their car. The point of delivery is to not leave my house. In exchange, I pay a $2 charge and tip generously.

I've since stopped ordering pizza, but I never tipped when they pulled that shiz.

That`s absurd...they call you because the freaking neighborhood where you live is so bad they fear being robbed....

 

[Number1]

you fucking poor scumbag. If you can't afford the tip you can't afford gas. next time stay at home! those people work hard for the tip!

:thumbsup:

OP would still be waiting for his change if it was me pumping gas and would be sporting a bran new scratch on his car.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Oh god, so you asked him to fill the tank and he DID? What a horrific scam!

 

[Schfifty Five]

I'm not a merchant. Not my responsibility.

Good point. F that guy then.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I don't understand why this makes you so angry or why you felt the need to post about it.

So inconsequential.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Oh god, so you asked him to fill the tank and he DID? What a horrific scam!

Reading fail. Well sorta...this is an amdhunter thread afterall.

 

[Quantos]

I'm not sure how it works elsewhere, but over here, some jobs pay less than minimum wage, with the assumption that tips are given. I know waiters get paid this way. I *think* that's also the case for gas station attendees, but I'm not 100% sure on that; I personally always fill up on my own. I'm not sure how getting up and pressing a trigger for a minute is a task hard enough to warrant someone else doing it for me.

The concept of tipping is broken as hell, though. The fact that some people would be paid less with the objective of balancing this missing money with tips is really stupid. Originally, weren't tips supposed to be based on performance? If I really wanted to tip someone based on their performance, I'd like to have the option of choosing how much I give. As it stands, I have to hand out a given percentage for the person to only get even with minimum salary. That's essentially me giving money on behalf of the employer because he doesn't have to pay full minimum wage.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Reading fail. Well sorta...this is an amdhunter thread afterall.

All I see is that he didn't tighten the gas cap, which is in fact a bad thing for an attendant to do, but he seems pissed off about other things as well.

I suppose it is sort of bad form to ask someone how much change they would like back - they'll either tell you to keep the change, or you'll give them all their change and they'll hand you some of it.

Don't understand why he's so upset or thinks it's a scam. He asked him to fill the tank and he did.

 

[SheHateMe]

How come you just didn't let him have a dollar? I know he pissed you off by filling your tank to some odd number..but come on, it was only a dollar he had in his pocket to give you back in change. He had to go inside for the 90 cents. You could have just let him have it all.

 

[Schfifty Five]

All I see is that he didn't tighten the gas cap, which is in fact a bad thing for an attendant to do, but he seems pissed off about other things as well.

I suppose it is sort of bad form to ask someone how much change they would like back - they'll either tell you to keep the change, or you'll give them all their change and they'll hand you some of it.

Don't understand why he's so upset or thinks it's a scam. He asked him to fill the tank and he did.

Hmm, you're right. Now that I think about it, the supposed "scam" was not giving him his full change by asking how much he wanted back, and then making him wait 5 min before he returned w/ the full amount. This isn't a scam in any sense of the word.

I will say that making him wait 5 min when he's in a rush to work is probably the only legitimate thing to complain about. And maybe not tightening the gas cap.

Now if only OP was smart enough to keep some change in his car, he could have avoided this whole mess.

 

[Sonikku]

posting in a tipping thread

 

[amdhunter]

All I see is that he didn't tighten the gas cap, which is in fact a bad thing for an attendant to do, but he seems pissed off about other things as well.

I suppose it is sort of bad form to ask someone how much change they would like back - they'll either tell you to keep the change, or you'll give them all their change and they'll hand you some of it.

Don't understand why he's so upset or thinks it's a scam. He asked him to fill the tank and he did.

He didn't carry loose change, and asked me how much change I want back. He was hoping that I'd say "just give me the dollar." This way he'd get to pocket the extra 90 cents. When I wanted my 90 cents, he went out of his way to take his time, and on top of that didn't close my gas cap after he gave me my change. He closed the door and left the cap loose.

If he makes it "inconvenient" for more people by saying they'd have to wait to get the loose change, he can actually make a great haul over the course of a day.

He's scamming people.

 

[TechBoyJK]

RANT ON -

Gas attendant tried to gyp me this morning. This is a station I frequent a lot because they used to offer full service and same price with CC or cash.

Well, they finally started doing 25¢ more for customers using CC. Fine, that's 5¢ more than anyone else, but whatever I had cash.

I told him to fill up my tank, and usually, they'd fill to an even number, like $50 even, or $50.50. Not this guy, he filled it to $53.10 and I handed him $55.

He had the balls to ask me how much change I wanted back. I said, in the nastiest way possible, I want all my fucking change back. He grumbled and made me wait 5 minutes while he went inside to get the 90 cents owed to me.

Fucking asshole didn't tighten my gas cap either. I asked him about it after he closed the door. I only noticed this because I wait for the clicks after having a Civic with "Check Gas Cap" light that took forever to turn off. I told him it's too early for this shit and I opened the gas cap and tightened it myself.

Stupid fucking asshole. Too early in the morning to get aggravated like this.

EDIT: The station is FULL SERVICE ONLY. I do prefer pumping my own gas, but they were the cheapest gas station around anyway.

You're supposed to tip full service gas station attendants.

It's like you made the pizza delivery guy walk back to his car to get you $1.00 in change.

No wonder he didn't tighten your cap.

 

[JTsyo]

I have a sneaking suspicion that that only thing that really happened to the OP this morning is that he thought of a way to troll the shit out of ATOT with another tip thread.

Everyone knows that paying with cash quit happening in 1997.

We have a winner. Tell the man what he's won.

 

[Puppies04]

cashiers are cashiers. gas attendents are doing a SERVICE as in FULL SERVICE. a tip is for service.

If you are poor and can't afford 18-25% tip then stay home!

I fail to understand the difference between places where you are supposed to tip and places where you don't have to tip in America.

Are you seriously telling me a guy who puts a nozzle in your car and pulls a trigger deserves tipping while someone who rings up your groceries doesn't.

How about your server in mcdonalds, ah but you say "but they don't bring food to my table" but sometimes they do if they don't have the food ready straight away. Do you pull your wallet out in such situations?

Why is it still customary to tip if your service was shit in a restaurant?

Why on gods green earth is the agreed form to give a freaking % of your bill anyway? If I want to treat my family to a lavish meal why should the server get 5 times more than if I went somewhere cheaper? The same work was done by the waitress/waiter either way.

If you want to be a sheep and be told when to tip and when not to tip that is your choice but lecturing other people on when to give their hard earned money away is crazy.

 

[arrfep]

You do know gyp is a racial slur!

Weird. This is the second time in as many days that I've read this on a forum (two different ones, at that), and I'd never heard it before in my life.

 

[dank69]

How come you just didn't let him have a dollar? I know he pissed you off by filling your tank to some odd number..but come on, it was only a dollar he had in his pocket to give you back in change. He had to go inside for the 90 cents. You could have just let him have it all.

Before he could even pump the gas he had to ask cash or credit to get the right price/gallon. When the gentleman and scholar amdhunter said cash, the servant should have known to pump an amount rounded to the nearest dollar if he doesn't keep change on him.

Therefore, extrapolating out, we know the servant chose to deliberately pump an amount for which he couldn't make change. What possible motive could he have for doing this? If the servant was a special needs type it would have been included in the original testimony, so we can rule out negligence. The only other possibility is that this was a malicious act against an upstanding citizen with the end goal of swindling the customer.

Furthermore, after realizing his con failed, the servant then proceeded to shirk his responsibility (tighten gas cap properly in accordance with the manufacturer's specification), and deliberately inconvenienced the honest paying customer by taking a full five minutes to make change.