I don't believe in tipping. Anyone. Except for cows.

Nah... Tipping people is where it is at! Except they always manage to get back up again-usually.

Eh, i'd perfer waitiers and waitresses to not be exempt from wage laws personally.

A lot of owners abuse the tip system to their benefit and basically a waiter/waitresses life is dependent on when they're schduled and how busy things are....

If your a  waiter and you have a slow week for some reason you might be screwed trying to pay your bills.

You don't have to tip the seating hostess because they get a cut of the tips you give to the waiters and waitresses in most establishments. I think the reason she gave you the look is because she's probably not really a cashier. I wouldn't imagine a restaurant strictly hiring a cashier to handle takeout orders. I'm not justifying what she did though. She sounds like a bitch. I'm just trying to put you into her head a bit.

I don't mind tipping cashiers when I pay in cash, but it's customary for them to leave a jar near the register for you to drop the cash in. Tipping them on your reciept isn't a standard procedure in restaurant or counter etiquette. I should know because I studied tipping etiquette in college for four years. Plus I can judge that PS3 game all I want because I totally got to play it at a friend's house for three hours straight!

Tipping is a such a sham. Why we're expected to subsidize their pay is beyond me. I'm with Kasz. They should receive adequate pay from their employers, not have to live on the generosity of people who are inherently getting screwed in to forced generosity.

And no, even in this expected world of tips, you tip for service. If they stand behind a counter and you go to them, there's no service to tip. Of course it's the same for bars. Oh look, you reached behind you for an overpriced beer, let me give you a huge tip for that...

Thank god there's no tipping here in Korea!

The reason you got that look is that most people actually do tip the cashier for some reason. When I had a job like that I was always stunned at the kind of tips I would get. The never gave anyone a nasty look for not tipping me though. Occasionally I would come to expect it, but that was only if I was taking their order and they kept making random changes to it as I wrote it down. Even then all their assanin behavior was forgotten for as low as a buck or two.

I have a fairly loose criterion for tipping. At a minimum I require you to refill my drink at least once. At that point I feel you are offering me some service and paying the slightest attention to what I am doing.

When I worked at a hardware store, I might load 30 bags of soil in to some ones car, load lumber for them, spend an hour helping them design a bathroom, cut materials, spend an hour solving their plumbing emergency, organize complex special orders or transfers, assemble cabinetry for them and who knows how many other complex and demanding tasks, but I didn't get tips.

Tipping has nothing to do with what makes sense and everything to do with expectations and crappy labour laws.

Tip the cashier? What?

 Man that is all kinds of messed up. Although I have been on that side of the fence as well when I worked for a moving company. I made more in tips as a cashier in a day than I did working for hauling heavy shit around with random "an inch to the left" requests in a month. Fortunately both jobs actually paid me a living wage regardless so ithe tips were everything a tip should be.

I don't get any tips at my job when I go out of my way to do something I didn't have to do. I fail to see why waiters should be a special case.

Then again I don't live in the US and A.