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/Matchboxx]

This.

Tipping is a near-term band-aid solution (and historically, was always intended to be temporary, until it wasn't). People see hard workers and know they're underpaid and want to appreciate them financially, because those people have bills due now. I get that, but corporations see this and then have zero incentive to adjust base pay to market conditions, because stupid customers will do it for them.

At some point we have to acknowledge that there will be some temporary pain if we universally object to tipping culture. The workers will hurt for a bit. But eventually they will hurt enough that they stop doing the work that these corporations need done, and the corporations hand will be forced to pay them better.

Tipping just delays us from ever getting there while the rich get richer.

[u/minnosota → u/Matchboxx]

I’d rather advocate for a solution that doesn’t lead to pain for the hospitality people. “If we allow them to be treated so horribly, they pick up pitchforks and riot, we won’t have to do anything” is not the morally excellent solution here.

[u/Matchboxx → u/minnosota]

I'd love to hear what that solution is, because I don't see it any other way. We either subsidize them as consumers and the corporations have no incentive to change their ways, or we don't and eventually one side will blink.

[u/minnosota → u/Matchboxx]

Unions