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Do you leave a tip for housekeeping if you're only staying one night in a hotel? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Today@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Is it a 'thank you for prepping my room' or 'please clean my room today'? If you tip post cleaning, it's likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?

ETA- I'm in the US. Does the rest of the world tip housekeeping? I always have when traveling because I do at home, but I don't know what the norm is.

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[–] eatham@aussie.zone 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard of tipping housekeeping at hotels, why would you do that? They get paid by the hotel

[–] Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because it's a shit job with minimal pay, physically demanding, and the hours are usually cut in the off-season.

[–] FisicoDelirante@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While it's nice for the employee to get some extra bucks, tipping only supports minimal pay for the job because "they'll make up for it in tips".

[–] Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Not tipping only punishes the victim, not the employer.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In pretty much every other country, you pay once and the worker gets paid from that.

It's pretty much only America where you pay once for the food and then again for the service because the employees wage is so horrifically low that they can't survive with out your direct subsidy.

Earning enough from your hourly rate/salary isn't a punishment, it just simplifies the process and removes the need for the "how much do we tip" conversation.

If you think the service was exceptional, you can still tip, it's just the difference between rewarding great work and tipping out of obligation.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

The problem is that people in this thread are in the mindset that tipping encourages lower wages, when in reality, low wages encourage tipping. The US has an absurdly low minimum wage relative to the cost of living, and that minimum wage of $7.25 has an exemption for tipped employees who can earn as little as $2.33 an hour. While it's true that many states have higher minimum wages than the federal wage, there are several that are the same as federal.