Folks Who Work In Tipped Jobs Would Like You To Spend A Minute Looking At Something

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56. As a former 'housekeeper' I agree with everything you say.

I agree about being run ragged - we had 20 min a room, plus we were responsible for keeping the halls and meeting areas clean. And many times, especially on holidays, people took their time checking out so we would have barely any rooms to clean in the morning and then we'd have to clean almost all of them in the afternoon, which meant the time per room was not much...so many times we would work late because of late check outs.

I could tell horror stories about the state of rooms too. It was nasty. We didn't have tip envelopes though. We very, very rarely got tips. The only people I remember tipping us were the Japanese tourists who would leave us a loonie (Cdn dollar) under every pillow. We absolutely loved them and our supervisors would try and rotate the rooms amongst the housekeepers so everyone would get a chance to clean their rooms and get tips. We did have a lost and found for items we found left behind in rooms that if after 120 days was unclaimed, we got to keep whatever it was we found. That was usually the most for 'tips' that we ever received.