Courtyard Marriott Wants You To Tip Using a QR Code—Because It Means They Can Pay Workers Less [Roundup] – View from the Wing

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News and notes from around the interweb:

  • Hotels want guests to give tips to workers, so they can pay lower wages. The CEO of one hotel ownership group actually said the quiet part out loud.
    • A worker might accept employment with an expectation of making $20 per hour. It doesn’t matter if that’s $20 from the employer, or $15 from the employer and $5 (on average) from guests. The lack of certainty in tipping might mean they’d need $6 or $7 from guests to consider it break-even.
    • If hotels can convince guests to tip more, they’re able to attract workers at lower wages.

    Tipping contributes to lower base wages. In most cases what housekeepers are paid is a function on the wage at which hotels can recruit them as staff. The higher the expected tip, the lower the wage needed to recruit workers. So…

    Tipping hotels?
    byu/Chris-the-Big-Bug inEndTipping

  • The soft bigotry of low expectations. It’s amazing what we’ve come to accept in domestic first class. The very idea of a burger was shocking up front 25 years ago. Now it’s treated as a marvel, compared to the rest of the slop they serve…

    Shake Shack Burger Was Delicious
    byu/Seniorhusky1 indelta

  • What should I choose as American’s 15,000 loyalty point reward? As an Executive Platinum, better boarding on a single trip is useless to me. Preferred (non-extra legroom) seat coupons aren’t transferable so again useless. That leaves me with 1,000 Loyalty Points (considering what they charge partners and what many would pay for qualifying points, call it $25) and a plastic luggage tag with name on it.

    If these were cool luggage tags, I would do that. But asking me to ‘pay’ $25 for a cheap one, when Delta gives silvers free metal tags even? Absurd. I don’t need the loyalty points – I basically paused earning them last year when I went over 410,000 – but will take the 1,000 anywat.

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  • Other than that the May 7 deadline was set by the Biden administration, Sarah Palin isn’t wrong.

    REAL ID is meant to be a national ID database that can’t be faked, in order to match you against security watchlists that are… highly flawed. People get on them by mistake, or as retaliation for angering law enforcement. The terror screening database has over a million people on it, rendering it useless. And remember that 9/11 hijackers would have had no problems flying under REAL ID because they held Egyptian, Saudi, UAE, and Lebanese passports.

    Thank goodness for this though…

  • The story is usually ‘the pilot ordered us pizzas during the delay’ what do we all think of McDonald’s?
  • “Resort fee not included” heh.
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