Originally Posted by
zcat18
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This may sound harsh, but the tipping culture in this country has gotten woefully out of hand. I understand that some of these professions are criminally low paying and that bartenders' and servers' salaries are designed to rely on tips. However...
Servers at even low-end restaurants demand at least 20% for the bare minimum of service.
Cab drivers--who tend to be serial ripoff artists in the first place--openly sneer at a $2 tip on a $6 fare.
Horror stories are floating around about skycaps putting garbage in people's luggage if they don't tip over $5 (personally, I'll never use a skycap).
The sense of entitlement among some service personnel has become extremely disproportionate to the value of the service that they provide. A line has to be drawn, and housekeeping is where I draw it.
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I see this when I go to a bar.
I order a beer. It's tapped, it costs $4. I give a $10 and get 6 $1 bills back. Really? I'm being encouraged to tip more than $1 on a poured tap beer?