I worked as a maintenance guy at a mainstream hotel that starts with 'H' a couple years ago. I used to get upset that housekeeping would get tips for delivering a set of towels, but all I ever got was anger for unclogging toilets and hauling up new tvs when theirs was on the fritz.
I remember there was only one case of a customer trying the $20 trick while I worked there, he was 'famous' and got treated very well.
This is why tipping is very silly. It's arbitrary, not proportional to effort, not everyone tips equally, and most people get excluded. It usually seems to me like it is sympathy money. "wow you have a go-no-where job. Here's a few extra bucks"
Ideally there would be zero tipping and people would just get paid more.
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I worked as a maintenance guy at a mainstream hotel that starts with 'H' a couple years ago. I used to get upset that housekeeping would get tips for delivering a set of towels, but all I ever got was anger for unclogging toilets and hauling up new tvs when theirs was on the fritz.
I remember there was only one case of a customer trying the $20 trick while I worked there, he was 'famous' and got treated very well.
This is why tipping is very silly. It's arbitrary, not proportional to effort, not everyone tips equally, and most people get excluded. It usually seems to me like it is sympathy money. "wow you have a go-no-where job. Here's a few extra bucks"
Ideally there would be zero tipping and people would just get paid more.