Biggest $TIP$ you've ever received?

[SoxFan777]

This is a question for people who have ever worked for tips, inspired by the post about the Syrian VP.

What's the biggest tip you've ever received? I got $100 once from a table when I used to waitress in college. Now I don't work for tips, but I'm still curious! :)

[QueenOfDa702]

I worked for a delivery service a few years ago and delivered to a Hotel, the guy gave me $75.00. I went from measly $2.00-$10.00 on the regular, to $75.00! I was doing flips out of that place, I tell ya!

[artjen]

I bartended and waited tables for many years. $100 was my biggest tip! A girl I worked with once got $500!!

[digby723]

$1 but, I never worked for tips...I just got it anyways!!

Guys at work have gotten $20 when they take TVs out to peoples cars...I've done deliverys too, but, have never gotten tipped!

[notvalidchoice]

I received a 25 dollar tip yesterday I'm attending an Esthetician school its also a spa we take clients and sometimes they tip us it usually only 5 or 10 dollars so I was stoked!

[NY_fashionista]

I own a business but also work freelance for other tour companies as a Tour Director - if you've ever taken a group tour, I am the person in the front of the coach with the microphone. The work is harder than it looks, the hours are long and most of the pay is in gratuities... but I enjoy it.

I recently had a tour where a lovely couple and their two daughters approached me at the end and told me they really enjoyed their time with me. They pressed a monetary bill into my hand and it wasn't until later that I realized it was a $100 bill!

I was SOOOO happy!

I work very hard on my tours and it doesn't always pay off financially, so it's very nice when it does. And - unless service is bad - I am a chronic overtipper myself because I know how pleased I am when I'm tipped well. It can take very little sometimes to make someone's day.

[candypants1100]

i was tipped 500 once on a 150 dollar bill. they were two guys up for a golf tournament. funny as hell, really nice guys. they made my day. no, week.

[leothelnss]

For part of the year I work as a hairbraider, with prices ranging from $13 to $50+
I've gotten tips upwards of $30 and they're usually from really nice people who weren't even getting something intricate.

[madamefifi]

In my job (nursing) we don't take tips but once a little old man bought me a nice card and enclosed a $5.00 bill. He was really scared about his surgery so I sat down with him the night before and explained everything and reassured him. When he was discharged he left the card for me, saying I had really helped him a lot and it meant a lot to him that I took the time to talk to him. It was the best tip ever.

When I worked in home health my patients used to give me things for Christmas all the time, like bottles of wine or bags of persimmons or home-made tamales, like that. I would try to gently refuse the gifts but I could see it meant a lot to them to give me something.

[Emotus]

Oh man, i was working in my SO's father pub and this DRUNK man was going to push me 3 stakes of bundled $50s ( should be about $3000SGD (2.2kUSD) and asking me to take it but SO's father push it right back to him and ask him to go home.. lol.

So, tentatively, my highert tip was $8USD. HAHA

[Eponineslove]

Where I work I usually make about $200-350 in tips for one banquet. When I'm serving, the highest tip I've gotten was about $40.

[sweet_pees]

not really a tip, but i did get a bonus of $1700 when i left my job. i worked there for a little less than a year, but i was undrpaid anyway, so it really wasnt anything.

[sillywahine]

i bartend, and the best i made in a night was about $325. but as for an individual who tipped me most...prolly about $20

[thithi]

$100 while I was in college.... I helped a friend with a private birthday party for a 7 yr old, and his mother tipped us each $100.

[Faith]

I used to work at a store with a lottery machine, so whenever a loyal customer's numbers came up, they would often tip us. The most I ever got was a $200 tip from a $1,000 scratch off winner.