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.
I’m not defending restaurants or owners, but I feel the need to say for the sake of servers that their hourly wage is usually “minimum tipped” which is lower than minimum wage and the business must make up the difference between minimum tipped wage and minimum wage if the worker didn’t make enough in tips to cross that threshold. Minimum tipped here in VA is $2.13/hour. My wife and I are DINKs in a 2BR apartment that charges $3k/month for rent and fees, no utilities included. We’re obviously not servers, but wouldn’t it be nice if it were a liveable wage here so that servers wouldn’t need to commute long distance from somewhere cheaper and farther away? Full time work in an area should be able to afford living in the area. That might help with the staffing issues which cause complaints, which would make customers have a better experience and be more likely to tip.
TL;DR: Servers don’t make shit without your tips, and your service is spotty because there are staffing shortages because nobody wants to work for peanuts and right now there’s a loophole that allows tipped employees to be paid peanuts.
Vote to remove the loophole and raise the minimum wage so your service can be better and we can remove the tipping culture you hate so much. Idk who is running with this policy in mind, but if you’re passionate about it and it’s nobody yet, run for some political office in your area. Change for the better starts at your local level.