Tipping by category poll

[owtrbnks]

I guess I'm supposed to start with: IMHO . . . so . . .
IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO STAY AT WDW, DON'T BE CHEAP, LEAVE THE MOUSEKEEPER A SMALL TIP EACH DAY!!! IMHO . . . If you are fortunate enough to be able to visit WDW you should count your blessings. Saying it's not a tipped position is a cop out. If you can't afford to tip the waitress, mousekeeper, porter, etc, STAY HOME. NO I don't work in the service industry, but I fell strongly (can't you tell) about this.
See you in WDW - Bring some singles or better yet a $5!

 

[Lewisc]

No reason for me to stay home and no reason for you attacking others. I tip the waitress, bellhop, bartender, skycap and valet. Attacking the majority for not agreeing with you is rude. Yes, the majority don't tip housekeeping. Housekeeping is not a tipped postion and there is no reason to tip them. You might not agree but that's the fact. Now if you make a big mess, need extra towels, ask for extras, get towel animals and the like a tip is appropriate.

To answer other posters, I generally tip on the higher end of the scale. My tipa for waiters is normally 20%. I normally tip housekeeping in non WDW hotels and would certainly at least tip the suggested amounts on a cruise ship. There are numerous lower paid employees that make my stay magical but aren't tipped. I agree with the poster who wonders why we should be tipping a non-tipped housekeeper but not the person who cleans the bathroom in the lobby or the street cleaner in the MK.

I guess I'm supposed to start with: IMHO . . . so . . .
IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO STAY AT WDW, DON'T BE CHEAP, LEAVE THE MOUSEKEEPER A SMALL TIP EACH DAY!!! IMHO . . . If you are fortunate enough to be able to visit WDW you should count your blessings. Saying it's not a tipped position is a cop out. If you can't afford to tip the waitress, mousekeeper, porter, etc, STAY HOME. NO I don't work in the service industry, but I fell strongly (can't you tell) about this.
See you in WDW - Bring some singles or better yet a $5!

 

[patsal]

I guess I'm supposed to start with: IMHO . . . so . . .
IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO STAY AT WDW, DON'T BE CHEAP, LEAVE THE MOUSEKEEPER A SMALL TIP EACH DAY!!! IMHO . . . If you are fortunate enough to be able to visit WDW you should count your blessings. Saying it's not a tipped position is a cop out. If you can't afford to tip the waitress, mousekeeper, porter, etc, STAY HOME. NO I don't work in the service industry, but I fell strongly (can't you tell) about this.
See you in WDW - Bring some singles or better yet a $5!

It has nothing to do with cheap, and I am not going to tell others who want to go on vacation that they shouldn't until they budget for tipping a housekeeper that is not considered a tipped position. Do what you feel you need to. What others feel they can and can not afford is thier business. To say that a person is fortunate to be able to go somewhere and should tip everyone they encounter because of this is absurd. Tip service industry employees, that is part of their wages ( a big part), but to tip a person who is considered non-tipped means you're leaving a ton of others in the same situation out. The ride operators, the people cleaning the lobby, the lifeguard, the person handing out towels at the pool, those cleaning bathrooms in the parks--heck those bathrooms are a ton messier to clean than my hotel room.

 

[goin2disneyagain]

I guess I'm supposed to start with: IMHO . . . so . . .
IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO STAY AT WDW, DON'T BE CHEAP, LEAVE THE MOUSEKEEPER A SMALL TIP EACH DAY!!! IMHO . . . If you are fortunate enough to be able to visit WDW you should count your blessings. Saying it's not a tipped position is a cop out. If you can't afford to tip the waitress, mousekeeper, porter, etc, STAY HOME. NO I don't work in the service industry, but I fell strongly (can't you tell) about this.
See you in WDW - Bring some singles or better yet a $5!

It has nothing to do with being cheap!! You don't know me, I don't tip housekeeping and no one that knows me would EVER say I am cheap. I am anything but cheap. I hate to inform you but a lot of rich people don't tip well or AT ALL!!!! In Las Vegas a lot of the high rollers will order room service in their suites and when it is delivered they disappear into the bathroom because they don't want to TIP!!!! They can afford it, they just don't want to. It has nothing to do with being able to afford it or not. I am not going to stay home just because I don't want to tip housekeeping. How ridiculous!!!!! You don't have ANY right to tell someone to stay home!!!!

 

[cjsmith]

I agree with this - Most people have typed in one forum or another here "I am supposed to tip housekeeping? I never knew that" or "Until I came to the DIS, I never knew you could or should tip mousekeeping." I was one of them and after reading it, I asked many people that I knew (I was curious, if I was the minority because I never knew you were supposed to because when I asked WDW, they say no tipping ) Anyway, I did not find one person that tipped for no reason, even the richies that send their kids to the private school near me - no one that I knew has ever tipped housekeeping except for cruises (because their wage is based on this) or special requests. Maybe it is a regional thing, it seems like New Yorkers especially tip a lot.

Really mousekeeping makes no less then $6.50/hr since Fl min wage is $6.10. Most probably make a little more then that. I did ask a mousekeeper before and they do clean 15-16 rooms a day (roughly 2 rooms/hr for an 8hr day.) If everyone thinks they deserve say $3-5/day, that is $6 to $10 EXTRA (and non-taxed) an hour they are making. That is more then what they are making an hour for their wages. I don't know any non-tipped position that actually makes more in tips then their hourly wage and I don't think it is fair to other non-tipped jobs out there. People think housekeeping is thankless so worthy of tips but what about the people that round up the carts at the grocery store day in and out so you don't have to walk for one - isn't that a thankless job then? Do you think they make any tips let alone double what they make in their wages. I doubt it.

Honestly, housekeeping doesn't seem so thankless to me. Maybe because I am a nurse and throw-up and stuff like that doesn't bother me but I just think of it as a job - one that someone wanted and applied for and received. A friend's mother cleans houses because she likes cleaning but does not like people/customer service. She doesn't have to deal with socialization and she does her job and goes home for the day and can leave it all behind and play with her kids/grandkids. This is unlike many workers who still have to work at home AFTER they get home to catch up on things, meet deadlines etc... (mind you for no extra wages.) Anyway, she makes decent money and never receives tips on top of her daily rate (I asked.) Her husband is a pharmacist and they live in a great neighborhood - no one feels sorry for her or thinks her job is thankless, it is ideal for her and it is why she is doing it. Many say a nurse's job is thankless too but it is ideal for me and my family and I feel satisfied doing it reguardless or what others may perceive my job to be (ie.. disgusting, overworked, sad, and should I say it, underpaid/underappreciated for what I went to school for)

Anyway, I agree with the poster that said both sides have valid reasons and you can not talk anyone in or out of tipping if they are set in their ways. I am not pushing "DON'T TIP" but I am just stating I have never heard of it nor do I think it is necessary since it is a non-tipped position at least for myself personally. I take offense to people who think it is so wrong not to. I think for RickinNY to get offended at everyone for not doing what he believes is mandatory or expected is a little much.

Excellent post!

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

Does anyone know *why* it's a non tipped position in WDW, a tipped position in DL and an assertively encouraged (they actually tell you a suggested amount and provide envelopes) tipped position on DCL? Does it have to do with the area's laws, amount of pay for housekeepers, etc.?

It seems there must be a reason, right?

 

[Lewisc]

Does anyone know *why* it's a non tipped position in WDW, a tipped position in DL and an assertively encouraged (they actually tell you a suggested amount and provide envelopes) tipped position on DCL? Does it have to do with the area's laws, amount of pay for housekeepers, etc.?

It seems there must be a reason, right?

I'm not 100% sure, so take this for what it's worth, but I recall reading that the number of guests who chose to tip housekeeping was very low. Disney was having trouble with either the union or with FL. The easiest solution was to raise the pay enough so that the position wouldn't be considered tipped.

DCL is just following the custom of other cruise ships.

 

[patsal]

It usually has to do with state/federal employment laws and the way the payroll is worked out. For example a traditional non-tipped position pays at least minimum wage and no paperwork is filled out accounting for tips (taxes). Cruise line employees are given room and board and a very small wage with tips accounting for their income--they are taxed on the amount that they are tipped. Regular service industry workers with jobs that are considered to be tipped are paid a very small wage per hour and are taxed on their tips as well.