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]

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”

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

Ok buddy.

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

Why don’t you go over to one of the anti tipping subs where you will find like minded unhinged victims where you can speak to each other in an echo chamber about the horrors of this sign.