I share my July 31st birthday with an old college buddy, and with Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom.
@baba if that holds up, we will, indeed, have a very happy birthday.
I'll take that present too!!!
@lynnventura
When we stay in a hotel, I always leave housekeeping a daily tip and a note that says, "Thank you!"
I've done it; it is a very hard job, especially making those beds the way the hotels want them made.
@polarberry we do the same. Also pre-bus tables when we eat out (or at least, we used to. I remember eating out. Hope to do it again in a few months, knock on wood.)
@blackandwhite You mentioned Chipotle raising its wages. Here’s what McDonalds is doing. It will spread. Of course, threats of and actual worker strikes helps to move it along.
https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/mc-donalds-wages-124213592.html
@polarberry, this is wonderful. Tipping as much as one is able, and a simple written thanks, are things that help raise our vibrations and make others feel that they are seen and not invisible in this world. I haven't worked as a hotel housekeeper, but I worked retail, and my parents did manual labor. It's not easy work. Celebrating the humanity and service of those who do hard work is both an act of kindness and a political act.
@polarberry I do this as well each night. At one stay, housekeeping left us a thank you note and said that ours was the first tip they ever received.
@polarberry I, too, always leaves a tip and note for the housekeeping staff when I travel. I worked cleaning rooms in a Holiday Inn during the summer when I was in college. My dad died when I was in high school so I had to work to pay my own way through college. It is a hard job and a thankless job. In many places, the housekeeping staff are underpaid and overworked. This was one of many jobs I held until I got my first teaching job.
@lenor @polarberry Sometimes I leave a tip for hotel staff but I am never sure what amount is appropriate. Having worked in the field, what is your opinion?
I wanted to write what I sensed and heard in my head a few times lately. I have never liked Liz Cheney and her father. She is way more conservative than the gal that they are going to replace her leadership position with too. However, I feel that Liz may run for POTUS (I know Jeanne and others have mentioned this here too), and I feel that she will try to create a 3rd party too.
I also strongly feel that all the lies the GOP are telling and the clinging onto Der Orange Fuhrer will come to bite them in their behinds too. ?
Interesting catch 22 I'm in on another site... As a graduate of The University of Texas, I am grateful that my fellow alums -- even the majority of the sports fans -- are far more progressive than the rest of the state. As such, I often get details of news stories first, and in more detail, on a college football forum than I do from actual news sites.
Lately, though, the political forum on that site has been hard to read because of the doom and gloom. I want to share my feelings that things are going to be okay, but... Here's the catch: I mostly think things are going to be okay *because* people are so scared that they won't be.
Existential dread of "the other" is the single best predictor of electoral turnout, and for years, that has given conservatives an edge, since fear has been their sales pitch all along. By actually *being* scary, though, they're basically ceding that advantage.
I feel a little creepy, though, wanting my fellow progressives stay afraid for another year and a half. It goes directly against the grain of my usual message of hope and optimism.
So every time I read a fellow Longhorn alum dreading an American descent into fascism, I'm torn between job satisfaction and spiritual ennui.
@triciact, I also strongly sense that Liz Cheney wants to run for POTUS. She is smart, strategic, fearless, and has no problems playing the long game. And Cheney, along with those 100 or so Rs who want to reform the GOP and are threatening to create a separate party, also kneel at the altar of the 40th President. So I believe their intent to "reform" the GOP means returning as the Party of Reagan. It's certainly better than the insanity we currently have on Capitol Hill, but it's also going backwards. And I don't believe that strategy will ultimately work for them. We're in a different age in time. And, after all, didn't Reagan lead us into the mess we're currently in?
And, after all, didn't Reagan lead us into the mess we're currently in?
Yep,or at least he took us a giant step forward in that direction.
Oh yes he certainly did. And the GOP still holds up "Saint Reagan" as the example of their best President in modern times. (Though it's been proven over and over that trickle down economics and the war on drugs never worked - but we're dealing with anti-fact'ors not just anti-vaxers too!)
However, Dick Cheney was an architect of how the GOP was able to abuse and create "rules" that they made up that they felt the entire government had to follow - except them of course. He was directly involved in the sinister backhanded way they were able to abuse power and give the office of the President more power than was intended by our founding fathers.
If the dems were very clever, they would (after the whole thing comes to bite them in their butt by lying and hitching their wagon to the former, twice impeached, insurrectionist, stealing POTUS who is still stealing the GOP's money) show the American people that THEY (the GOP) are the "deep state" and "establishment" that seeks to steal and abuse their money by taking their hard earned tax dollars for themselves...and keep that rhetoric going for all of time. ?
I usually leave $25. a day, but we usually have two rooms, one for us and one for our kids, who are both 18+ and 18-., so we NEED our own room! ?
Whatever you are comfortable with is fine.....I think any amount is appreciated. Without the housekeepers, a hotel doesn't operate. There used to be a show called Hotel Impossible and you got to see how a lot of the staff had to struggle to meet the owner's demands while not being supplied with a good system and/or the proper equipment to do the job.
I'm happy to hear that so many other people do this!
@lenor @polarberry Thanks. Next time I travel I'll be sure to bring some envelopes and $10 bills. We are always careful to leave our room as tidy as possible out of respect for the staff.
We are planning our first vacation to a COVID-protocol adhering hotel this summer. It's going to be weird doing something again that was once so normal and still isn't.
Walden, we haven't been to our favorite restaurant in a year and a half. I miss it! Our area is still in extreme risk so it'll be a while longer, but I can mentally taste the food. ?