The current minimum wage is about $8 an hour. If the minimum wage had grown at the same rate as inflation, it would be over $20 an hour. But the same people who complain about taxes and paying for the poors, refuse to pay people for the work they do. Whenever I hear these types claiming to be Christians, I really get…

On the flip side - you can afford hundreds a night but balk at $5? *side eye*

Keep in mind that in the Western world, this is a problem that’s fairly exclusive to the USA, staff in Europe are paid a living wage. If you tip in the EU it’s a courtesy for a job well done, rather than a necessity for the staff to have a half-decent wage.

This is my problem. Instead of expecting guests to help your people make a living wage, how about you pay them a living wage? Raise the room rate by $3 a day and give it all to housekeeping and then we won’t have to make up for your shitty business practices.

My wife are very clean when staying at hotels. We don’t eat in the room or make a mess. We typically decline turndown service and housekeeping out of security measure (we usually travel with money and valuable electronics) and just don’t find it necessary. We throw all the towels and bathmats into the tub after…

Hotels charge hundreds of dollars a night for a room and we’re supposed to supplement their staff’s wages on top of that? Actually, they’re incentivizing us to not even use the service by offering points for not using housekeeping services at all. Which I find additionally mean to their employees (hey you get to work…