There are questions to ask about who you tip and who you don't tip, who do
you thank for a service and who do you take for granted.
As a school teacher is an ethnicly diverse school in London (51 mother
tongues) it was clear children whose parents came from a some countries
felt it appropriate to give the teacher a christmas present (including
kids from non-christian backgrounds like Egyptians) and others it seemed
uncessary.
It came as a suprise on my first flight in/to South America for the
passengers to applaud the pliot on landing. After spending some time
looking at the work of call centre operators I have always made a point of
thanking good a friendly service as it is a job with very little
intrinsic thanks.
---- Phillip C's note on airline pilots. There are a number of professions where technology has led to diskilling and still retain high status. It think airline pilots come into a similar category as pharmacists who may spend large ammount of their time counting pills and dispensing bottles of potions made a great distance from their own dispensory (unlike times past). However in both cases when the "midden hits the windmill" they carry a lot of responsibility .Thereis much here in terms of labour legislation, restrictive practices, professionalism and protectivism, and the status of the employmeny which other workers have not enjoyed. Martin
"A big Hi to all you sentient beings out there. For the rest of you, the trick is to bang the rocks together." D.N.Adams (1952-2001)
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