{"id":502908,"date":"2010-04-01T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004001"},"modified":"2010-04-01T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:58:49","slug":"to-tip-or-not-to-tip-full-service-gas-station-attendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/502908","title":{"rendered":"To Tip Or Not To Tip: Full-Service Gas Station Attendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/fullservicegas-thumb-240x161-38825.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s poll on <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/is-it-ever-okay-to-not-tip-the-pizza-guy.html\" >tipping the pizza delivery guy<\/a> certainly riled a lot of feathers, with over 300 comments on the topic and more than 12,000 votes tallied. It&#8217;s also brought up some good questions about tipping from Consumerist readers, like this one from Chad, who has just been introduced to mandatory full-service gas stations in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>See, Chad and his wife just moved to the Garden State, where it&#8217;s required by law that all gas be pumped by an attendant. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Chad speaking for himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right away we noticed the law in NJ that makes it illegal to pump your own gas. There are signs that state a fine of &#8220;up to $3000&#8221; can be given. That leads me to wonder, what is the practice of tipping the gas attendant?  <\/p>\n<p>Since it is forced on you, is it good practice to tip the gas pump guy?  I say no. If the guy goes out and does stuff that is above and beyond, I will throw some bucks along the way. With gas climbing again, a lot of people are not willing to give extra money to fill up the tank. What do you think? Am I a prude, or do I have logic in my corner?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think:<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2992212.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2992212\/\">When should you tip a gas station attendant?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">answers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s poll on tipping the pizza delivery guy certainly riled a lot of feathers, with over 300 comments on the topic and more than 12,000 votes tallied. It&#8217;s also brought up some good questions about tipping from Consumerist readers, like this one from Chad, who has just been introduced to mandatory full-service gas stations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}