tipping your co-workers?

[icecream-guy]

is it a thing to tip your co-workers? or are they just expected to do their job?

I was planning to decommission a firewall this weekend,  previously discussed, one of the data center ops guys (not from my team) offered to help. (pulling servers out of a packed rack by yourself,  with much cabling in the way is not a job for one person) and was not his job. We did work together, and he pulled the firewall out of the rack and removed the rails for me, I was thinking that I should throw this guy a $20 as a tip for his help. I don't know if that is something done or not. .

In another case. one of our NAC guys wanted me to put him in another VPN group for testing some NAC stuff, I went ahead and jokingly told him to send my tip to my PayPal account  (which he offered a certificate of appreciation which I thought was a funny response).

I don't know,  as a server in a restaurant, and ya need help. someone covers your table, wouldn't you expect to let them keep the tip. or keep it since it was your table?

if I wrote software and someone found a bug, should I tip them ? (commonplace, for bug hunters)

or is tipping just gone overboard these days.

thanks for your help here's a tip, DONT invest in collectables.


 

[Dieselboy]

I have sent a uber eats gift card to their mobile phone number so that they can get at least a free lunch. I definitely done this once but cant recall if I did it again or not but I would do it again.

I just try and be wary of people that are annoyed you asked them anything at all - no amount of tipping will turn them around. If I tip someone I at least want them to a) enjoy it and b) try to smile

[deanwebb]

I've paid for lunches before, that's usually thanks enough. I've also gotten Amazon gift cards and the like from appreciative sales people.

It gets tricky in the federal/defense space, where you can't be seen to be trying to buy influence or stuff like that.