Why the waiter, the hairdresser, the valet, and the baggage handler, and not the housekeeper, the lawn guy, or the cook?

You don't tip the housekeeper and the lawn guy? I thought one did. And the cook is supposed to get a cut of what you tip the wait staff, no?

What does a housekeeper do for you if you're not staying in the hotel? And are you differentiating that from the maid who cleans your room?

(Not arguing, just confused.)

I use "fucksticks" when truly vexed.

"H-E-Double-Fucksticks!"

Yeah, that could work.

It's nice to see a lot of the same monkey/weasel logic being applied and cuntyballs amuses me.

I do tip the housekeeper, it just seems that most people don't, and I think they should. (I'm referring to the maid who cleans my hotel room as the housekeeper.) I don't tip my own lawn guy because I'm PAYING him. I'm just not understanding how we as a society decide who should be tipped and who doesn't need to be. And I agree that it would be better all round if people got paid a decent wage instead of having to rely on the whims of customers for a substantial portion of their income. The idea, of course, is that good service will always = good tips, but in RL it doesn't work that way.

I agree with Zenkitty that it's random. I worked all sorts of low-paid food service and retail jobs (including minimum wage jobs). I always gave good service. I wasn't tipped in any of those jobs.

He told me nobody EVER tips the housekeepers.

I tip the hotel housekeepers. ($2-3 bucks a day)

Okay, gotcha. I thought tipping the housekeeper was fairly well established. The lawn guy I think of as someone like the dorrman, who gets tipped around the holidays but not on a time by time basis.

Now I'm reminded of a time when I left $50 on the counter for my dad - disremember why he was coming by - and the dog walker took it.

(Totally fair assumption for her to make that it was for her, to be clear. I'd forgotten she was coming on a different day that week and it was right before the holidays. Was just a wee bit more than I'd anticipated giving her at the time.)

Today I was super relieved that I had a couple bucks to tip the guy who washed my hair at the hair salon (not the same guy who cut my hair.)

Man, I would pay just for that to be done a couple times a week. I looooooove getting my hair shampooed professionally.

I tip the hotel housekeepers. ($2-3 bucks a day)

I've heard $3-$5, but is that per person if there are multiple people in the room?

Oh man, have I not been adjusting for inflation? Ah well. I tend, more often than not, to round up at the end anyway.