Do you all tip for all these occasions?

 

A dollar goes to the van driver, unless they do a crappy job. Two dollars go to housekeeping, unless the room is gross.

The only folks who have more impact than the driver on your hotel stay are the housekeeping crew. Keep [edit] the housekeepers happy, please.

 

How so? I think carrying a piece of paper around is stupid. I have multiple cards and Samsung pay. The only time I've paid cash for anything in the last decade were van driver tips and Craigslist purchases. If I remember to get the cash, I'll tip. If I don't, I won't. The companies compensate the van drivers.

The van driver has little impact on my hotel stay.

 

My comment wasn't super clear... it's probably more important to keep the housekeepers happy.

That being said, when the van driver slices forty minutes off your ten hour layover, then you might feel differently.

 

Typically, yes. Spent a lot of time in hospitality before coming here. Most who haven’t will never understand and are more than likely the habitual non-tippers.

 

Gotta love when the ones who are supposed to set the stage are the ones executing a poor performance. Don’t start our new hires off on the wrong foot. Set a good example and we won’t have this issue. LCP’s make more money than most of us. No excuses.

To the ones who make the excuse that they forgot to get cash and don’t want to pay ATM fees. Do you realize how many places offer cash back these days? Most of these places are right next to the hotel or within a short walk when you go to grab food. Stop the nonsense.

 

Agreed. I pretty much tip all of the people on that chart except for dry cleaners and I'm just finding out housekeeping. Are most guys tipping housekeeping?

I always tip the van driver unless they were super terrible (really late generally) and most times I tip even then.

For the guys that say they don't carry cash, I have two solutions. 1) when I go to the grocery store I use the self checkout and get $4 back, if you go twice, $8 is enough for a trip. Also, I went to the bank and got a $100 of $1's, those are in my watch box, when I get out my work watch, I take out however many 1's I need if I haven't been to the grocery store.

I agree with the Baradium, you don't forget socks, you shouldn't forget tip money.

If you just want to be a cheap jerk, that's fine, you do you, but at least own it, "I forgot to get cash" is a lame excuse.

 

Delta pilots don't tip us when they deadhead on our airplanes, are they cheap jerks? After all, they make a lot more money than we do.

Just had to stir the pot.

#sorrynotsorry

 

Oh no, they tip. They all pop in and remind us that "we're hiring, get your application in." As if we don't know that.

 

Is it standard practice to tip pilots?? Cuz if it is, I've been doing a terrible job.

I actually DIDN'T use the argument that we make more than the van drivers so I don't think the Delta vs us thing even applies. It's standard and expected that we'll tip them, we all know that, as I said if you want to be a cheap jerk, that's your call, just don't pretend it's anything else.