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People coming to Dubai for the first time often want to know what the tipping etiquette is here, namely, who do you tip and how much do you tip? And we not just talking about the usual waitresses, taxi drivers and food delivery guys Dubai is full of myriad other people whose job it is to make our sunny lives easier.

There are supermarket bag packers, valet parking assistants, bellboys and petrol pump assistants. There are people who carry your shopping to your car, people who wash your car while you shop, and people who massage your shoulders while you wait for other people bring your shopping to your freshly washed car (I joking, though it wouldn surprise Tony Gonzalez Women Jersey me). Do you tip all of these people? Every day? And, if not, where do you draw the line?

Well, Dubai residents learned a little more about the business www.nflfalconsofficial.com/Nike-Desmond-Trufant-Jersey.html of tipping in the UAE around Christmas time, when news emerged that a Dubai based petrol pump attendant had been sacked for keeping a tip that a customer had given him. Fully aware that he wasn allowed to keep it, the attendant, whose salary was AED 1,000 ( a month, stuffed the AED 10 note ( in his sock. He was caught at the end of the day by supervisors during a routine frisk search.

The company explains its no tips policy thus: expect our employees to deliver the highest level of customer service standard and do not want tips to cause any discrimination or bias in the service offered to customers. It goes on to say that little money generated as tips is reinvested into staff welfare and Steven Jackson Youth Jersey entertainment funds. (Note that the money generated in tips is said to be up to AED 80 [ per pump attendant per day the company has over 170 petrol stations in the UAE you do the maths.)

At least we now know, and nflfalconsofficial.com/Nike-Robert-Alford-Jersey.html are able to make an informed decision as to whether or not we continue to use that particular petrol station. But it would be helpful if all companies were forced to publish their policies on tipping while many of us are more than happy to reward what we see as good service, I doubt any of us want our hard earned cash further lining the pockets of greedy employers.

Don be fooled, either, by the 10 per cent fee that charged by the majority of restaurants in the UAE. You might assume it goes directly to the waiting staff but, ask, and you find that that isn always the case. Although this Tony Gonzalez Kids Jersey charge is printed on the bill, it not compulsory and some people refuse to pay it, giving the tip to the waiting staff instead.

In the absence of transparency, I suppose the bottom line here is always to ask the staff if they receive the tips, and to slip the cash to them directly where possible. So who do you tip in Dubai, and how much? A quick straw poll says: