[LiteraryLark]

I don't get why people tip 15% for someone to bring a plate of food to your table, but have the nerve to pay nothing or a fraction of a percent of the hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a person would spend on a hotel stay when the housekeepers bust their butts and handles all kinds of biohazards including blood, poop, pee, vomit, and semen, and have to pick up the most disgusting things like condoms, dirty underwear, used feminine products, stained sheets, etc and then have to make a disgusting, dirty, trashed room into something sparkling and perfect for the next guest. Some people have the nerve to leave quarters, and once I was literally tipped in Chuck E. Cheese tickets.

I honestly think you should tip at least 15% of what you paid for your hotel room, which is about $25 FOR ONE NIGHT. If you're staying multiple nights and ask for the housekeepers, I'd pay half each time that they clean your room because usually it's never the same housekeeper. I don't understand why people don't tip their housekeepers who work 100x harder than a waitress.

I can understand your frustration...but saying that housekeepers work 100x harder than waitresses is just a tad insulting to waitresses, honestly. Both jobs are challenging, and you can certainly work hard as a housekeeper or as a waitress. Both deserve tips!

However, although tipping is nice, it isn't required. When I worked in jobs that received tips, I would have the mindset of not expecting tips. That way, when I did get a tip, it was a pleasant surprise and there was no sense of entitlement. It is unrealistic to expect that everyone tip you, and it'll just lead to frustration.

[LiteraryLark]

Yeah, I know waitresses work hard, and I know that tipping isn't required, but it's still so frustrating.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...er_in_a_hotel/

In outside of North America you tip in advance for service. Some places in the US/Canada are beginning to catch on*

If you don't tip before your meal or stay in someplace you don't get to eat or stay at all. I was charged 25% tip for my stay at a $250 a night hotel in Paris and all it had been was a room with a single bed smaller than a twin and a tv.

*gratuities are becoming more common - especially in the food service industry. Check your bill before you tip! You may have been charged one already.

[LiteraryLark]

Originally Posted by Little Cat

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...er_in_a_hotel/

I'll post a thread for questions, thank you!

[fishin fool]

Cash is still king and hard working people that do a good job deserve a tip.
I always tip and always will, working people have to look out for each other.

What is your hourly wage?

Servers don't get the standard minimum wage, they get a servers wage because tips are more or less expected to make up the difference.

[cakeladie]

Maybe it's because waiter no waitress have to look a certain way have to step and fetch and a lot of the, get minum wages because at the end of their shift they have to say how much they got that night for tips and theor tips are counted has income.

Leaving a maid a tip is different she doesn't have it counted in has part of her income each day. Hope I am making sense