One quality I hate in people is cheapness and penny-pinching. And I’m not talking here about people who are in dire financial straits but, rather, about those who are comfortable yet begrudge tips to workers of the service industry.
I remember how embarrassed I was once when I had to share a cab with a professor who gave the driver a 20-cent tip while mumbling how ridiculous the custom of tipping was. Mind you, this was a person who had just received a multi-million dollar grant and had spent the entire ride sharing the difficulty of spending all this money. It isn’t like we need to maintain expensive labs and buy equipment in Humanities, so the grant paid for the prof’s traveling and expensive dining out.
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