tend not to view housekeepers (and those in the service industry, in general) as people with feelings like their own.

They wear gloves when they clean.

No, you’re not. Tips are for servers. Housekeeping staff is cleaning the room for the benefit of the hotel, not for you.

Clean a room for 15 minutes and replace the towels. We’ve stayed in hotels, yes.

This article is pretty clearly for people who go out of their way to make other people’s lives a tiny bit easier.

Tip. ($10/day, per person who stayed

It’s against the law for them to step in and do something, here.

could someone please quick explain to me why it is so hard to make Flint have clean water?

The last time I owned an LG TV, I discovered that it wouldn’t pass 5.1 audio from HDMI in to TOSLINK out, which is a non-starter if you want to use something like a 5.1 speakerbar but use the TV to switch inputs.

The last time I owned an LG TV, I discovered that it wouldn’t pass 5.1 audio from HDMI in to TOSLINK out, which is a…

Part of the issue I have with Anthem is that none of their words are as cool as BioWare seems to think they are. “Javelin” is a dumb name for something you wear, but even then, we have a word for someone who uses javelins - a javelineer. “Freelancer” sounds more like a poorly paid gig economy job than the pilot of a…

That describes teachers to a T, yet they unionize all over the nation, and SHOULD because they need collective bargaining power.

Everything that was once designed to elevate marginalized people’s voices eventually becomes a trendy hashtag to sell tampons, razors, diet pills and Pepsi.

That’s nonsense. The role of unions is to increase the influence and power of labor vs management. If you allow management to unionize then you destroy the utility of unions and it becomes just another tool to destroy labor solidarity.

Professionals are people who make a living off of their individual expertise and judgement, which is why “collective bargaining” doesn’t make any sense - professionals aren’t interchangeable parts, by definition, so every professional negotiates their own contract because their services are of unique value.

Neither professionals nor management should unionize or be allowed to unionize; you destroy unions when you permit professional or management unions.

likened to “driving on a dirt road.” 

It is essentially a very expensive private road.

They also couldn’t have been questioning the legitimacy of the check because they were obviously able to pull up the account on the computer screen and had the employer’s number.

Uber used to pay drivers the minimum amount that will attract enough drivers to meet demand.

For “clean” towels once every two days? Yes, they’re not doing anything that merits a tip.