If I quit my job and start searching for jobs that provide service to rich people, do I get more money as “tips”?
Just a plain example: If you clean in a 3* Hotel rooms you might find people tiping you about 5-10$/€ or whatever currency the country you work in has.
If I instead now work in hotels for royals, do they tip like 1000$/€,… because its nothing to them anyways?
Both seems kind of weird to me. If I were to have 50+ Million € on my account and earn X million € a year, would I still tip only 5 € to people who clean my hotel room or would I tip 1000 €? I’d somehow feel like I’d just tip a 1000 € anyways if I’d have that much money. Like what would I care.
On the other side tipping a thousand € would be weird to, because if that would be the case wouldn’t everyone just work for the rich?
I noticed it myself though, the more wealthy I got the more money I “gave” to people for services. I remember backpacking through Thailand about 15 years ago as a poor student. I was like looking for the cheapest tuktuk driver, even if it was only a dollar less than the other tuktuk driver offered. Now if I go to Thailand I just throw them 5 € in the pocket and move on with my day cause I don’t feel like talking about how much a ride would cost they can use the money to buy a snack after it and I make them happy.
At the same time if everyone would do this wouldn’t the Thais start working for tourism only and abandon other jobs?
This topic has kind of 2 questions. Because if you tip to much you kill other jobs at the same time. You can’t go to lets say Tansania and tip the luggage carriers 10 $ per luggage because sooner or later all the rangers in national parks would quit the jobs and go carry luggage around cause of more money. You know what I mean?
But I still have a weird feeling abut this topic. I would find it disrespectful if I would tip 5 € to room service if I were Taylor Swift. Do they tip at all? Tell me they tip. And if yes, do they only tip 5 €? That has to be weird to them. Do they even have 5 $ banknotes in the pocket lol.
As a waiter, the more expensive the restaurant, the more money you make in tips. I’d assume it’s similar in other tipping industries.
My wife has a cousin once removed who worked for some rich dude as a personal nurse for 15 or 20 years. The guy didn’t have family so left everything to her. She built herself a pretty sweet house in a remote area, buying all the equipment needed outright, then gave the equipment to her son who had a construction company all of a sudden.
I suppose it can and does pay off sometimes, but then she also had no way of knowing she would inherit the lot.
In order to make good money from rich people you’ve got to put up with their attitude and become indispensible: They’ll only treat you well if no one else can do the work the way the want it done. You’re being interviewed when pulled off the job to “chat” and you’re served the same drink as the rich person. They perceive the next phase of the service as one requiring significant trust. Clear the phase and they’ll call you every time and give you the work, regardless of price.
The truly rich tip worse than everyone else. Speaking in generalities, they’re among the most selfish, least charitable people out of all income brackets, the same way you often see the most expensive cars on the road driving the worst.
There’s definitely exceptions, but as a classy they definitely ain’t very classy.
Interesting. I never worked for rich.
But I was just assuming based on my own personality that I seem to give more back to society now than I did a decade ago because of how good my income now is.
I never really supported local events (charity) but now I do.
This is a story from the US, so take that for what you will. Tipping culture is common here for any kind of service work except room cleaning, for some reason.
My SO and I went to a restaurant and saw two people we knew from the church we used to go to. They were multimillionaires in an area where the average salary was barely $45k.
Anyway, they had a party of about eight people, which usually means you’re obligated to pay at least 18% tip. Most restaurants do this automatically, but this was a small, locally owned place, so they didn’t add an automatic gratuity. These MF’rs tipped $1 a head. $8 fucking dollars for probably a $100+ bill.
The waiter was a friend of ours, so we covered the tip these rich assholes should have paid and our own 20% tip, even though we made maybe $60k combined at the time.
That story still gets me mad, so I’ll leave it at that before I start casting aspersions I can’t back up with facts.
I’m just cracking up at 8 people 100 bucks. What a town
Years ago I worked for some quite wealthy people managing their affairs.
Their bank balance in ONE bank account was in the $5-10m range day to day.
They were cheap as hell. Suuuuper stingy with pay and spending on anyone else, but extravagant in their own lives.
One of them threw away the “ugly” custom built hurricane shutters on their waterfront mansion despite it canceling their insurance because they’d rather lose the house than have the (quite subtle) shutters on the windows.
Contractor didn’t care. As they put it “I already got paid”. Literally landfill for custom fitted rolling shutters.
Rich people are weird.
Rich people don’t tip service much better than other people. You can make more tip money working in places that cater to rich people, like a high end hotel, mostly by volume but random odds generous rich people that will tip far more than average. Most rich people do know the value of a dollar and tip like they make $40k a year. The people who come from money and have never had an actual job are the ones that are out of touch with reality and will tip $20 on a $40 pizza delivery.
Tradesmen, especially union, or construction managers tip well and often.
Rappers tend to tip stupidly well because their entire thing is throwing money around like it is nothing as a flex.
I think I should start cleaning for Snoop Doogg
Imagine the pounds of weed you’d vacuum up in shake alone.
So I am basically vacuum cleaning my tip lol