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A comment on You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping. Parent comment

Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by tptacek on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:28PM (#18243468)
Because you know before you partake of the service what the expectations and the normed obligations are, and if you defect by availing yourself of the service and not tipping, you're just harming the worker.
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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by SilasX on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:42PM (#18243603)
"Industrywide, about a third of hotel guests leave tips for housekeepers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/business/hotel-housekeepe...

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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by tptacek on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:38PM (#18244056)
Yes, and that sucks.
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Re:You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquet... by SilasX on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:00PM (#18244241)
Yes, it most certainly does suck for an assertion claiming it's a norm and "hella [sic] expected".
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