Saturday, August 06, 2005

Tip me!!!

No one ever leaves a damn tip! I work at a hotel cleaning rooms. Im a housekeeper. With all the work I do, and mess I clean, I believe people should leave Tips.

Tell me this, why do you HAVE to feel obligated to leave a tip at a restaurant. Its like an unwritten rule that you tip your waitress or waiter after the meal. Now the rate is different with everyone. I ve heard that it is 15%, so you pretty much tip what you paid in taxes.

Let me paint you a picture with words. The waitress arrives at your table hands you the plastic menus and asks what you would like to drink. She then leaves, gets them and takes your order. She may help you by recommending a good dish or bring extra sauce. She then brings your meal to you. With the length it takes you to eat your meal she may come back once or twice to see if everything is satisfactory. Then she brings you your bill and collects the money. Wow now thats tiring!Not.

No listen to my hardship of cleaning your hotel room. I enter a room prop open the door and turn on the air -conditioner, because it bloody hot and I am stuck in this heavy blue cotton uniform. I strip the two beds, clean up dirty wrappers, condoms and the million of beer bottles strewn across the room. Since people are unable to put there garbage in the waste bin, I have to drag a garage bag around clearing everything into it. Half eaten take out boxes,cups and used Kleenex. I then collected all the dirty wet towels from the bathroom. I wash down everything, the tables, windows, tv and picture frames from all the coffee spills and finger prints. The I make both the bed and bring fresh towels to the bathroom. I replace the gazpacho bags and vacuum the floor. I then have to get on my hands and knees and wipe all the stray hairs off the bathroom floor. I have to wipe the pee off the toilet seat and tooth paste from the sink.And I get Zip for cleaning up all this mess. This is just an example of a room. Most rooms on a weekend tend to be worse, they look like a tornado hit them. Now I m not complaining, I know this is all part of my job. But I just don't understand how a person can walk out of there room and not think " Hey this poor girl has to clean my dirty room, heres a dollar."

Now Im not going to downplay a waitress's job anymore, because I now she/he may have to deal with drunk and rude people.And they deal with the public more so than I do. But the way I look at it is, if they deserve tips then so do I. I dont expect 10 dollars, I get excited to see 2 dollars lol.So anything would be appreciate. If people really knew what we had to do to get there room the way they see it when they first check in, they might think differently. No one ever sees the trashed rooms.

Im such a whiner but I don't get paid enough to clean used condoms and rotten food. For the love of God leave me a Tip. Money makes me happy!!!!:0)

6 comments:

Miss.Q said...

aww thanks cutie... We need more people around like you in Canada lol!

Red Hot Sexy Papa said...

I am a good hotel guest. I make my own bed. I clean up the room before leaving anywhere. Rubbish will be in the bin. Sink dried. Any money left anywhere will be the housekeeper's.

My mom raised me well eh?... I read my comments; I sound anally perfectionist. FCUK.

Miss.Q said...

Haha everyone stay at my hotel and tip me that would rock.
I work today...so we will see how much, if any I get tipped.

red hot sexy pappa- You sound like the perfect guest lol!:) I love it.

natasha- I tried the link it didnt work.

Anonymous said...

I always leave a tip when I'm staying in a hotel, but most of the time the cleaning ladies leave the money.

Maybe they're afraid I will later say they stole my money or something. I dunno.

Mad Munkey said...

Thanks for the perspective. Where is the best place to leave the tip? On the pillow?

Miss.Q said...

On the pillow is quite popular. or on top on the tv. But most of the time its on the table and people usually write s short note.