I'd already caught on to the sarcasm. Some of it was assuredly not subtle. I'm oft prone to it myself, and with much less subtlety.

My first new car appliance was a '93 Escort that turned out to be a perfect example of Murphy's law.

If you'd said "take a seat and read for a second" I'd be right there with you.

She sounded calm enough. You, on the other hand...

It's easy. The elementary school I monitored for a year had just under three hundred kids, and just two adults supervising during recess.

The fuck? A flick with blood and guts isn't necessarily bad parenting? What planet do you live on that you believe a four year-old is capable of processing that kind of film?

"you also want them not to have experienced whatever they may have experienced to get to that point"

The fuck is wrong with you, that you "tolerate" gay kissing on TV? If your position on straight kissing is anything other than that same level of tolerance, you're a hypocrite at best.

Are you even capable of expressing a coherent thought?

It was the norm in the chain I worked in, and in a hotel brat friend's chain as well.

Sorry, this is what I get for getting indignant in three separate threads of the same post. I clarify without actually making a point. You're the only one who included "liquor" in their comment, and I'd already been hacked off by the implication that all servers start at that rate.

I was taught that a tip is appropriate if the staff have done ANYTHING beyond the cleaning required to turn the room over. And the caliber of the establishment definitely matters: if the place isn't clean or the housekeeping staff are rude will affect the tip.

The cost of living in the largest city in that $9 hourly area is more like $16. The disparity is still less than many of the states, but it's no where near a real living wage.

IMO, housekeeping at hotels always gets a tip. The rule of thumb I was given was: $2 - $5 for each day I'm in the room. It's at the larger end (or above FTM) if I've asked for any special service that the housekeepers would perform but receive nothing additional for in their pay packet, and more for longer stays,…

He's not being cheap.

Nope, minimum wage for any server in an establishment that serves food and liquor, during liquor serving hours, is $9. A hell of a lot of food servers start at $9.

We're in agreement on the living wage as a baseline here (not just for servers, IMO) but we'll have to disagree on tipping. It should simply be eliminated.

Yeah, and your definition of exceptional won't change on a day-to-day basis. All you're doing is raising the bar, not fixing the issue in any way. Eliminate tipping, or don't, but don't expect anything to change as long as you can still tip at your whim.

Define exceptional, please. That way, the server who delivers exceptional service will be able to demand that tip, no?

Your comment is rife with misrepresentations.