I work at an undisclosed location in an undisclosed place because if word got back to my employer that I’m bitching like this on Reddit there would probably be words.
Okay, so in this undisclosed place in this undisclosed location I work in an undisclosed department. This department only pays about 2/3rds of my actual wage, the rest is accounted for by the generosity of my patrons (tips). Now, currently we have a very large conference of google employees at our…let’s say venue? I’m sure you can see where this is going. The Google employees staying with us are happily putting everything on their expense accounts and cards, a good deal of them rude as all shit, and only about 1 in maybe 10 actually left a tip. Some of these orders were $80 or more.
This place is known for our great service. And we deliver. But by about the 50th guest flashing their Google issued card, it started to wear pretty damn thin on me. How can a overwhelming majority of the employees at a multi billion dollar company, staying at one the most extravagant venues in this undisclosed locations draw so many lines and zeros on the tip line of their receipts. And after talking with my coworkers this seems to have been a common trend throughout other areas of our venue as well.
Regardless how you feel about tipping, it doesn’t change that it’s how most of us tipped employees actually make ends meet.