Kirin <fake@email.com> wrote in message news:<2jt47rF15hj8bU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> I saw someone in a Japan-related forumn complain that you can't tip in 
> Japan, because the service is so good.
> 
> This is offensive. Why do you Americans want to make the rest of the 
> world as bad as your country? I saw a whole Dr. Phil episode on the 
> subject of tipping - they had to do the show because people are so 
> confused as to when you should and shouldn't tip.
> 
> Many countries in the world are free of this nonsense. Waiters etc are 
> treated like EMPLOYEES, NOT contractors.
> 
> DON'T tip when you go to other countries as it may spread the disease to 
> those countries.


Oh, but you can tip . . . bigtime.  Just rent an apartment in Japan
and fork over the biggest "tip" of your life in the name of "key
money".

-MB