htb

I wasn't aware that tipping was related to the grossness of one's job.

I still maintain that someone running a hotel has to pay the staff appropriately. If a hotel wants to provide better service so they can charge higher rates, then they need to pay the people providing that better service and not expect guests to pay twice (higher rate and more tips).

I fully understand if one tips a person for doing something completely outside their expected role, e.g. fixing the problem with the credit card as mentioned in one of the posts. I have tipped a hotel employee (in the US) for jump starting my car after letting the light on over night -- and he didn't even want to take it ("it's my job", he said) until I told him that I didn't think it was "his job".

But I will not pay twice for housekeeping, for being checked in, or for problems being solved that shouldn't have been occurring in the first place. Hotel stuff in a upper scale full service hotel that expect to be tipped for carrying my suitcase irritate me.

HTB.