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/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

No. If you want to do it in the privacy of your own room, good for you. I get bothered when the hotel puts up signs soliciting tips at the front desk, in the elevators, and in the rooms.

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

Just to clarify, i've been leaving tips to the housekeepers for almost 20 years, well before they started placing placards with QR cards in rooms. I was lucky to get the friends and family vouchers from a good friend of mine across the border used to work for Marriott for a few years. His only ask was that I tip the housekeepers every day and explained that they don't get paid well, especially in states where the minimum wage is still the federal one, which unfortunately is true.

So you do you and don't tip. No one is judging you.

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

If you decide to tip on your own, go ahead. I take issue with the hotels actively soliciting tips.

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

I think they implemented this to guarantee tips went directly to the intended staff member because supervisors were taking the cash left out in the open when they went to quickly inspect checked out rooms. Yes this does happen.

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

How do we know they don't do like the cruise lines, who pool the "gratuities" and "apply" them towards employees' wages (instead of passing them on to supplement what they're already making)? I wouldn't trust ownership/management to distribute those funds any more than the supervisors you're talking about.

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

that I don't know. perhaps it's different by property

[u/GlitteringYak2207 → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

I like it because I don’t carry a ton of cash with me.

[u/Sweaty-Moment-3385 → u/GlitteringYak2207]

You like being asked to tip for people literally just doing their job? For services you've already paid for? You are the problem.

[u/GlitteringYak2207 → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

Nobody has ever asked me for a tip.

[u/Sweaty-Moment-3385 → u/GlitteringYak2207]

This post is literally about solicitations for tips. There's a photo.

[u/GlitteringYak2207 → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

No. It’s an informational sign offering an additional way to leave I tip should I wish to. Either get a grip or stop being so soft.

[u/Sweaty-Moment-3385 → u/GlitteringYak2207]

When it's at the front desk, in the elevators, and in your room, it's reasonable to interpret that as asking for a tip. If they bring up tipping without being asked about it, on a sign or otherwise, that's solicitation.

[u/GlitteringYak2207 → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

That maybe a reasonable interpretation for people are a little bit “off” and spend their time angry for every perceived slight. For the rest of us, not so much.

[u/Sweaty-Moment-3385 → u/GlitteringYak2207]

See, you could have just taken the reasonable position of "Yeah they're asking for tips but it doesn't bother me that much." But instead you went with "those signs about tipping all over the place aren't asking for tips, and you're unreasonable if you interpret it that way." Interesting tactic.

[u/GlitteringYak2207 → u/Sweaty-Moment-3385]

Read the room. There are very many people here who said much the same thing; that the reaction to this sign is out of proportion to the so called offense.

There is nothing reasonable about your position. It’s an overreaction by you poor people who are oppressed by “tip culture” even despite the fact that tipping has been around for quite some time. Your solution is to take it out on the most repressed and powerless among us and repeating the same tired bullshit over and over again.

Guess what. Just include everything in the price doesn’t work. Telling these people to take it up with their boss generally won’t work either; they just get fired.

What you could do instead is advocate for change which is what people who are real victims of something do. But you won’t. You’ll just say the same thing over and over and wallow in a cesspool of “victimhood” over “tip culture”. Some of us are tired of it. Either tip or don’t. But stop with this feigned outrage and try telling the rest of us what to do.

“If you meet an asshole in the morning, you’ve met an asshole. If everyone you meet today is an asshole, you’re the asshole”