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<blockquote data-quote="criticalbass" data-source="post: 1362822" data-attributes="member: 711">In another life I knew someone who was once, for a while, a hotel maid.&nbsp; (She went bad, got an advanced degree and became an academic.)But, she never forgot what she dealt with as a maid.&nbsp; The stuff she saw, waded through, and had to clean up, would gag a goat.&nbsp; Because I suspect things haven&#039;t changed much in the intervening years, I have always left the maids a nice tip, just to make up for the gross slobs they have to pick up after.&nbsp; I know it&#039;s not my responsibility, but these folks are usually at the bottom of the income numbers, and have recently been the target of corporate cost cutting.&nbsp; Last year one of the big chains had lots of full time with benefits housekeepers who had been there long enough to get their wages up above the minimum a good bit.&nbsp; The company had them train &quot;additional&quot; housekeeping staff (drawn from a local population of foreign nationals legally here on work visas--not Hispanics by the way).&nbsp; When the training was done, the higher wage/benefit earners were fired and replaced with the new folks.No union there, but then who needs one?&nbsp; CB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="criticalbass, post: 1362822, member: 711"] In another life I knew someone who was once, for a while, a hotel maid. (She went bad, got an advanced degree and became an academic.) But, she never forgot what she dealt with as a maid. The stuff she saw, waded through, and had to clean up, would gag a goat. Because I suspect things haven't changed much in the intervening years, I have always left the maids a nice tip, just to make up for the gross slobs they have to pick up after. I know it's not my responsibility, but these folks are usually at the bottom of the income numbers, and have recently been the target of corporate cost cutting. Last year one of the big chains had lots of full time with benefits housekeepers who had been there long enough to get their wages up above the minimum a good bit. The company had them train "additional" housekeeping staff (drawn from a local population of foreign nationals legally here on work visas--not Hispanics by the way). When the training was done, the higher wage/benefit earners were fired and replaced with the new folks. No union there, but then who needs one? CB [/QUOTE]

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