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Buncha cheap a** people here. If you can afford to stay at a motel or hotel , tip the cleaning staff every day. We tip $5 daily when we are there. Service is considerably better when we do!
You are assuming all bribes are criminal? If an employer offers a bonus for extra duties, isn't that a form of bribery? Look, if you're too cheap to tip, man up. Don't try to excuse yourself..
We tip $5/day and once we tipped $10/day for a 2-day stay just because we were back from the beach and there was considerable amount of sand around even after us trying to clean up our shoes/towels etc. Regardless of the service, IMO no harm in tipping $5/day.
For a stay of three nights or less, we don't need a maid. The towels will last that long, as will the soaps. Glasses can be rinsed. We can get coffee refills from the front desk if we want it. We leave the Do Not Disturb sign out 24/7. We ask nothing of the maid but to be left alone, which I'm sure doesn't break her heart; frankly, we don't want underpaid people we don't know messing with our stuff any more than we can help.
The last time I yielded and took the card off the door, in a San Francisco hotel that charged one kidney per night, the maid didn't pay attention and sent my hip pillow to their laundry service with our bedding. The pillow was in the covers, yes, but in a different color pillowcase. She just missed it. I called the front desk and they did launch a search to get it back to me (I half assumed it was gone forever). When they found it, the maid supervisor called to let me know, and chided me for leaving it in the bedding. It was all my fault. I was too stunned to react as that logic deserved; plus, I was more concerned about getting it back. Now I'm even less interested in having daily maid service.
We don't trash the place. I'd say we leave it cleaner than any couple with kids. We do nothing gratuitous to make the maid's life harder when we leave.
It naturally follows that we don't tip. We either ask nothing of them, or we ask far less than the usual workload. I think that's perfectly reasonable.
We ask nothing of the maid but to be left alone; frankly, we don't want underpaid people we don't know messing with our stuff any more than we can help.
To assume that people working for wages far less than yours are thieves is unfair. Stealing is a character flaw. It isn't determined by income bracket. In my experience, most housekeeping staff are hardworking individuals, who don't want to risk their jobs.
Tipping aside, I've rarely had service to complain about, but I greet them with a smile, use their names & treat them with respect, as I would anyone else, which makes a difference.
To assume that people working for wages far less than yours are thieves is unfair. Stealing is a character flaw. It isn't determined by income bracket. In my experience, most housekeeping staff are hardworking individuals, who don't want to risk their jobs.
Tipping aside, I've rarely had service to complain about, but I greet them with a smile, use their names & treat them with respect, as I would anyone else, which makes a difference.
If there's a trend emerging from this thread, it's that classism and classlessness to go hand-in-hand.
If there's a trend emerging from this thread, it's that classism and classlessness to go hand-in-hand.
Indeed. Prospective is skewed & too many assumptions are made. Be afraid of the Bernie Madoffs of the world, who can destroy entire families' lives, not someone who might peek at which color tees you brought along for vacation.
And, if one is worried because a belonging is that valuable, leave it at home. Tip a few bucks for good service, at the very least. The same folks who don't, probably readily leave a handful of change in a tip jar when buying a coffee.
Buncha cheap a** people here. If you can afford to stay at a motel or hotel , tip the cleaning staff every day. We tip $5 daily when we are there. Service is considerably better when we do!
When I was doing business travel for a non-profit, a maid making '$13-$16' an hour was earning more than I did and my employer would not reimburse hotel tips.
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