<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by anonplz:
As I said before, you can do what you want, I have no power to force you to tip, nor do I want that power. However, you simply MUST tip the cleaning people if you want to be taken seriously.
I imagine the cleaning people who are stiffed by customers tell the GM or front desk people who then make a notation in that person's hotel/companyh profile for the next visit, and then do not go out of the way for them.</font>
I'll forgo any comments about the mentality of somebody seeking self-validation from the chambermaid.
As for the assumption that not tipping results in your being "blacklisted" - this is simply ridiculous. I'd love to run this by the managers at Hilton and Marriott, where I stay every week. I am having a very hard time reconciling your theory with my actual experience and that of my traveling colleagues. But then again, may be we are not a representative sample - our sense of self worth is based on a slightly more complex formula.