hotels are so overpriced anyway, and I assume the employees are making minimum wage at least, so there is no way I am tipping in a hotel for anything. I always leave a do not disturb sign on the door anyway. My longest stay in a hotel was 6 days. I made it the whole time without having the room serviced no problem.
Frightened Inmate number 5 wrote:
Nutella1 wrote:This is just ridiculous.
Marriott had a $500 Mil profit last year.
They pay their housekeeping staff minimum wage and expect us to fill the gap.
^ this.
Additionally, if workers receive much of their pay via tips, they probably aren't going to report most of it as income and will thus pay fewer taxes than if they earned the same pay strictly through salary.
The hotels and other businesses realize this and use it as an excuse to pay their employees even less since much of their earnings are "tax-free". The business pays fewer payroll taxes as well. The practice of tipping should be banned, in my opinion, and businesses should be responsible for ensuring that their employees are payed fairly.
John Charles wrote:
A tip jar?
Don't you think there are enough tip jars today?
You're new around here, aren't you?
The LRC old timers will get the joke :)
Nutella1 wrote:
This is just ridiculous.
Marriott had a $500 Mio profit last year.
They pay their housekeeping staff minimum wage and expect us to fill the gap.
That is the real point here.
Ones are King wrote:
more generous than thou wrote:I do the same thing but with fives. You seriously carry around 100 bills in your front pocket and give out $1 tips?
They must wonder why you're so cheap if you're that happy to see them.
You do the same thing? So you get $100 in fives? That is only 20 bills. You'd run out in a day or two.
Carrying ones is much more handy because you can give $1 for something like a door, $3 for a check-in, $5 for a bag or more if needed. With $5 it means you are stuck with $5. $5 for opening a door? Sounds to me like you're just stiffing the doorman. Or you're taking short trips.
What's wrong with tipping the doorman $5? Since my hands are usually full of shopping bags I just ask him to reach in my front pocket and grab whatever he can find.