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    So my CW, Mr. Noob, got a $25 tip for guess what? Selling the last room to some generous old dude. Usually we get tipped for bring extra towels, extra pillows, or bags. Never for just selling a room! Wtf!!! True it was the last room but still! And usually it's $1 not 25 times that! The old dude was generous!! Anyway I don't expect tips here becuase I already know our prices are atriciously high for no frills: no restaurant, no spa, no movies, no room service, no laundry service,no shuttle service no bell hops, no concierge, no bar no attraction really close by but I'll admit I am a teensy bit sour because back when I was a noob I never got tipped.
    Anyway the old dude was very nice but I expect he'll be regretting being so nice to us when at 8 am the renovation crew will be drilling and our high school group will be shouting up and down his hallway. I feel sorry for the morning shift to have to deal with all that angry calls. :/ they're the ones who deserve a nice tip if you ask me (I don't work that shift for that reason) :P Anyway what's the biggest tip you've received at your job and for what, I'm just curious?
    Last edited by HotelMinion; 04-04-2017, 02:59 AM. Reason: Added more stuff we don't have :p
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    Nothing in that range! I used to be a server at various restaurants, got some decent tips, and some no-tippers, but nothing really stunning like that. We also accept tips at Tea Shoppe when we make drinks but rarely get them (mostly because people pay with plastic). Once, though, a small group came in barely five minutes before closing and all of them wanted lattes and whatnot. The two staff members who were closing were smiling through gritted teeth as they made the drinks ... then, as the group was leaving, they left a $20 tip to be split between the two. (I wasn't one of them, alas.) So they went from to in a nanosecond, LOL.
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    • #3
      He got the last room. Assuming that he knew that he got the last room, and seeing how happy he was just to find someplace to sleep, he probably won't complain about any noise. Hopefully.

      Good on your co-worker though. That's a very nice tip.

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      • #4
        Minion says he's an older guy, so we can hope that he fits the stereotype and that he's up early in the morning so the noise won't be as bothersome. I mean, I know most of the time when I've stayed in hotels it's been for events and I was out eating breakfast by 8 at least.
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        • #5
          There was just one of those articles going around FB about how tipping hotel workers gets you all kinds of amazing things. Or maybe he's rich and $25 is like $1 to him.

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          • #6
            Best tip ever -- Back at the chain pizza joint (NOLA area), there was a tiny area of disgustingly expensive houses inhabited by disgustingly wealthy owners in our area. One of these owners was a nice guy celebrity known for enjoying his privacy. He typically walked out to meet us in his driveway in a t-shirt and flipflops, and I don't think I recall ever getting less than twenty buck from him, even on a fifteen dollar order.
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            • #7
              My best tip was $250. While working in the grocery store, no less.

              We had a regular who would come in, cash his pay check, and then spend a couple hundred bucks on scratch tickets. The weirdest part is he always walked out with more money than he had when he started. Dude had a real knack for picking the winners.

              So one day, he wound up scratching tickets for an hour at the service desk when I was working. He won over $4,000 in that hour.

              The next time he comes in, he hands me an envelope with my name on it and says "Thanks for the loan last week, sorry it me so long to pay you back." Gives me a wink and walks way. Inside was the $250. Which, at the time, was more than I took home in a week and it helped me pay for my college textbooks that semester.

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              • #8
                I once tipped extremely generously. We're talking like a 100% tip.

                It was worth it, though. I'd gotten home from Boston into DC on the train in the middle of a blizzard. Metro wasn't running to above-ground stations like the one nearest to my house, and even if it was, my parents were snowed in with two feet of snow in the street, so they wouldn't have been able to pick me up.

                So there was me, stuck in Union Station, looking to see if I could find a taxi that could get me to a hotel for the night. And I hear the guy go "Anyone for Virginia?" He had an SUV that could get up onto the snow rather than try to drive through it. He got a few other fares, dropped two of them off at hotels, and the other person for Virginia opted for a hotel as well.

                But the driver took me all the way to my house, well out of his way, in terrible conditions. I didn't care that "snow emergency" fares were in effect, I was so glad to get home so I could sleep in my own bed that I paid him double. And compared to some stories I heard from similar travelers that snowstorm, I didn't get ripped off at all. There were some people who were getting charged twice what I paid the guy for their much shorter trips.
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                • #9
                  Quoth notalwaysright View Post
                  Minion says he's an older guy, so we can hope that he fits the stereotype and that he's up early in the morning so the noise won't be as bothersome.
                  Or he's such a sound sleeper that he won't hear a thing.
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                  • #10
                    I used to work room service at a hotel, and the room service bill had an automatic gratuity added, so a lot of folks would just leave it at that. It was a busy night, and upon making a delivery, the customer asked if I could fill her ice bucket for her. I admit I was really annoyed, because that wasn't my job, but I went ahead and did it.

                    She tipped me $20, which was a huge tip at the time. I felt like such as asshole for resenting her request. She was a real nice lady.
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                    • #11
                      I don't get tips often at my hotel, even for running supplies up. The best tip I've received in recent memory was $40 when the usual tip is a fiver.
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                      • #12
                        At my tax office it is forbidden to solicit tips. However we are allowed to accept them, when we were still next to a Starbuck's I would be offered a 'good coffee' (as opposed to our discount store brew) every now and then. Though last month a postal lady who got her refund in less than a week tipped me $40.
                        And then there was the cop who gave let me off with a warning (after I got her a refund in the high 4 figures).
                        Last edited by taxguykarl; 04-09-2017, 04:03 PM.
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