Redefining Tipping: Gratitude, Not Obligation

Tipping is heartwarming when it is given voluntarily, but in recent times, people are not only being forced into tipping but they are punished for refusing not to do so.

Tipping just like thanksgiving, should be optional. They can be given for exceptional services. It is just a means of expressing your gratitude and satisfaction about a particular service rendered even if the workers are already earning a salary.

For instance, just as ensuring safety of roads is the government worker's job, transporting passengers from one destination to another is the driver's job. Everyone trying to make the ends meet.
This is to say that while you are expecting your salary as a government worker, someone else relies on the number of trips they covered that day for their own "salary".
So why would It be made compulsory? It does not seem right to me.

Seeing the law enforcement officers (the police, the army, the federal road safety corps e.t.c) standing under the sun along the road to do their job is enough sometimes to inspire someone into giving them a tip because in as much as we know they are doing their job and receiving salaries, it is not easy, however, the problem arises when they make it seem mandatory before granting you access to the the road.

Personally, I experienced a tipping scandal not so long ago when I was going for my friend's induction at Enugu from Anambra and I will tell you that if it was in my power, I would have had all those policemen we saw that day imprisoned for what they did.

Shortly after leaving the bus park, we reached a checkpoint where the police officers stopped our driver just like they did to every other driver .
Our driver gave him the tip of one hundred naira which he refused immediately.
Our driver brought out extra one hundred naira and he said he should park his car and requested for five hundred naira . Their justification was simply because he was carrying a lot of luggages so they felt like he earned a lot from them for him to just give him two hundred Naira.
Funny enough, the fees for the luggages were paid to the company board since the driver was a company worker and I'm sure the policemen knew this but they rather felt like the money will somehow find way onto his paycheck and for that, they felt it's necessary they take their bit of the share.

It became an issue which cost us more than forty-five minutes all because of tipping; a gesture that should ideally be freewill. It was a painful and frustrating e for everyone especially because of the time wasting.

In summary, tipping is a great way of encouraging anyone but I believe it should never be a necessity for accessing services which ordinarily should be free of such expectations, not to even about the current economic hardship taking a toll on everyone.
The take here is always WILLINGLY!

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It shouldn't be expected but rather always be expected whenever it comes by.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day ahead 👍

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