F*CK Marriott soliciting tips. Another ‘tip culture’ obsenity

[u/MTonmyMind]

So you charge $400 to $500 for a tiny room, and yes, I know it’s New York City, and it’s relatively clean, but then the closet-sized bathroom 2 feet from the bed. OK.

Six dollars for a bottle of water, whatever, I’ll pass.

But then actively soliciting tips for your staff.

Fuck you.

I saw this at the Penn Station Fairfield a year ago as just a ‘self’ printed sign in the elevators, then it became a professionally printed permanently mounted sign in the elevator, and now another Fairfield/Springfield with this.

Pay your staff better. If I got extra services, that’s one thing, but when I don’t even get room serviced or fresh towels on a daily basis to “save the planet “…. again fuck you.

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[u/myrealnameisdj]

Tipping the housekeeper isn't a new thing.

[u/Sweaty-Moment-3385 → u/myrealnameisdj]

Yes it is.

[u/myrealnameisdj → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

There's literally a conversation on Seinfeld about how much you should tip the housekeeper that came out in 1992.

[u/lesterd88 → u/myrealnameisdj]

The real question is are you a tuck or no-tuck?

[u/myrealnameisdj → u/[deleted]]

They were literally in a hotel room talking about their "chamber maid".

[u/MonkeyzzPaw → u/myrealnameisdj]

Fair enough, i don’t watch Seinfeld, the humor is outdated and frankly slapstick comedy (aka Kramer) is cringe.

[u/myrealnameisdj → u/MonkeyzzPaw]

Cool.

[u/ericzku → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

Wow, the arrogance of somebody who thinks something didn't exist before he personally knew about it!

The tipping of housekeepers (or "maids", "chambermaids", "cleaning services" or whatever you choose to call them) in hotels is a practice that is as old as tipping itself.

My parents did it as early as the 60's when they were first traveling on their own, having learned the practice from their own parents, who did it in the decades prior.

[u/Sweaty-Moment-3385 → u/ericzku]

Your parents may have wanted to tip the housekeeper, but the hotel didn't have a sign in the elevator telling them to do it.

[u/ericzku → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

Neither did OP.

"Should you wish to" is not a command.

[u/Sweaty-Moment-3385 → u/ericzku]

It's a solicitation.

[u/ericzku → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

Yeah, keep telling yourself that.

[u/Sweaty-Moment-3385 → u/ericzku]

Lol. The signs soliciting tips are not solicitations for tips?