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Originally Posted by wendybeth
It's certainly subjective, but my idea of a reward would be proportionate to the value of the item I've lost. Do you struggle with the concept of tipping as well? Just curious.
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I think the fact that tipping exists is beyond stupidity (why I'm obligated to cover someone's inability to negotiate a proper wage I simply don't understand). But no, I don't have a problem doing it or how much to tip.
But again, for that situation society has decided that there are somewhat strict rules on what the appropriate tip for certain situations are.
So, what are the rules here? What is properly proportionate? I'm am not really contesting that a reward is reasonable (though I don't think it is for the situation described) just the certainty that $32 was somehow insulting.
A cabbie making a reasonable effort to return something left by a fare in the car, is to me, just as much a part of the expectation of that job as a waiter giving me another fork if I drop mine on the floor.
The one time I did leave something valuable enough in a cab to try and track it down (in Minneapolis) I didn't give the cabbie a "reward" at all (and by the standard implied in this thread I owed him many (tens of?) thousands of dollars since it had a value to my company of almost $1 million). I paid and (generously) tipped him for transporting the item to me just as if I'd been a fare in that cab.