Posted on 09/15/2014 10:19:02 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Do you leave a tip in your hotel room for the maid? Marriott is launching a program with Maria Shriver to put envelopes in hotel rooms to encourage tipping.
The campaign, called 'The Envelope Please,' begins this week. Envelopes will be placed in 160,000 rooms in the U.S. and Canada. Some 750 to 1,000 hotels will participate from Marriott brands like Courtyard, Residence Inn, J.W. Marriott, Ritz-Carlton and Renaissance hotels.
The name of the person who cleans the room will be written on the envelope along with a message: 'Our caring room attendants enjoyed making your stay warm and comfortable. Please feel free to leave a gratuity to express your appreciation for their efforts.'
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Thanks JimSEA. The sand can be a pain.
I admire the hard work they do and the fact that they are doing it when the wide ranging dependency programs of Obama could make it just as easy to stay home.
Do these maids split the tips with the clerks at the check in desk? The same people who put in your wakeup call request?
I have no idea.....perhaps they’ll begin leaving envelopes for them, too.
We tip maids. ‘Bout $5 per day we stay.
1) People are paid the market rate for the production that their labor brings to the corporation. That is unless they receive minimum wage. A minimum wage earner, by definition is paid above their value due to the fact that if an employer could do so legally, he would pay that person less, and in most instances that same employee would accept the lower wage as a tacit acknowledgment that their particular labor is not that valuable to the company.
2) Two people working full time minimum wage jobs with two children at home, live ABOVE the Federal Poverty level. By a lot. It isn't the minimum wage that is the problem, It is after all a starting wage and should be limited to the least employable, as it mostly is. It is the lack of full time jobs in the Obama economy that is killing the workers of America at all economic levels.
BTW two full time Minimum wage workers in a household gross $30,160 per year. The Federal poverty level for a household of 4 is $23,850. 126% more than poverty levels.
3) The minimum wage is the greatest barrier to entry for workers ever devised. It is anti democratic, anti liberty and is on its’ face unconstitutional. A person has the right to contract their labor at any rate they would desire and for any reason they would have to set that rate. It is not unbelievable that a person would even work for free in order to gain experience or show that they are suitable for the job.
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I hope they also include the appropriate IRS reporting forms so that all of this can be done on the up-and-up.
I mean, if your parents raised you right, you gotta tip the maid and make sure the tax man gets his due too.
It really is, isn’t it?
What kind of cheap bastard doesn’t tip the maid?
This country has gone tip crazy - people want tips just for doing their job. Where’s the limit? Then there are restaurants that charge for service - automatic gratuity added on. Do you tip the flight crew for a great flight and safe landing? There’s tip jar on Seattle ferry’s right by the cashier! You tip the cashier for taking your money?
This has been a rather common practice in Choice Hotels for years. The envelope usually has the maid’s name on it. We tip a standard ten dollars per night. I think the maids are almost always working mothers who could use a blessing, and that is exactly how we think of it.
I travel a lot for business and stay at whatever corp hotel the company tells me to. I do not have maid service during my stay...keep the do not disturb sign up.
If the room is clean when I check in and everything works as it should...I leave a tip. My company does not require receipts for anything under $25...so I just lump in all tips paid out during a stay.
I didn’t realize tipping hotel cleaners was particularly controversial....I’ve just always left something if the room was clean when I checked in.
For personal trips..unless I’m staying longer than a week...I don’t get maid service. I leave a tip on last night.
The amount I give is usually between $5-$10...just kind of depends on various factors. Mainly...how much cash I actually have on hand.
“Do these maids split the tips with the clerks at the check in desk? The same people who put in your wakeup call request?”
My daughter worked a college internship last summer at the front desk of a nice hotel. She would get a $20 tip twice a week or so just for answering questions. I couldn’t believe the hotel lets them accept tips, but they do.
You don’t honestly tip 10-20% on a $350 per room night. No one is that generous or stupid.
“Here honey, thanks for that extra small soap and shampoo bottle and for the vacuuming of the carpet. Take this day’s pay as an extra thanks for a minimum of service rendered.’ NOT!
For a restaurant. I can see 15-25%. It is after all for a person who is usually paid far less than minimum wage. At some very high end restaurants the wait staff PAYS to work there as they are so highly compensated by tips. Believe it!
Why don’t they pay their employees a better wage so the employees can stop begging
They tip hotel maids in Europe, although Americans are a little behind on this. On the other hand, Europeans don’t tip - or barely tip - various service personnel that we tip well. However, Americans who travel a lot usually do tip hotel staff.
That said, I always leave something - doesn’t have to be much - for the maid, and I’m happy to have an envelope. If you can afford hundreds of dollars for a hotel room, you can afford a few dollars a day for the people who keep your room nice, don’t steal your stuff, etc.
I’ve found the Do Not Disturb sign works well to stop this.
If the hotel/chain only hires legal help and is not supporting amnesty, fine.
If not, let’s instead inquire as to the worker status of their staff.
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