Difference between a tip and a bribe?

[Guest]

Well, I'm finally making it to Vegas in the not-too-distant future, and I'm reading in the tour books that in order to get good seats for the shows, you have to "tip" the guy who seats you. They call him the "maitre d'," although it just seems like a glorified usher. Well, I always thought that a tip is a thank-you for a job well done, i.e. the task has been completed. It seems that when you give some money first, in order to influence his actions, that this is really a bribe? What do you guys think?

[HooBoy]

When I go to a show, I hand the guy a $25 chip. I always sit at the lip of the stage.

[Guest tmbg]

>When I go to a show, I hand the guy a $25 chip. I always

>sit at the lip of the stage.

 

Us old timers would like to advise you that a chip has no value, it is usually something that you eat :-) The proper term is "check" or if you prefer, "cheque."

 

Chip or check 25. will always get you and your date a very nice seat. I don't look at it as a tip or a bribe - it's politics :-)

 

Cheers! Ritchie

[HooBoy]

Semantics?

 

I give the guy a green round thing. They seem to appreciate it. :-)

[RM]

yes Semantics.... does it matter whether you call it a tip or a bribe? It's still money that goes out of your pocket into his. No doubt you can call it a business expense, while he calls it a "gift."

[HooBoy]

To me its the price of admission.

 

Bribe, Tip, Gift..doesn't matter. I want a good seat. Perhaps I should have added that I usually get my shows comp'd, so the green disc is really not necessary, is it?

[Guest]

>Perhaps I should have added that I usually get my shows

>comp'd, so the green disc is really not necessary, is it?

 

I high roller? I never would have thought! }>