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Sharon Harris’ looks at how we reward the people that work the hardest to make our experiences the best they can be.


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lutter follows me wherever I go, but I try my best to clean up when traveling. That explains my interest in a recent online article about hotel housekeepers’ tips. These unseen employees always enhance an overnight stay.


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Guests and hotel staff continually interact. Think of the parking valets, bellhops who bring your bags to your room, bartenders, restaurant servers, dealers and those working in many more areas of a casino. Most guests understand that employees depend on tips to supplement their paid incomes.


I once heard that parking valet and doorman positions were the most coveted tipped casino jobs, especially in Las Vegas. Thanks to high rollers’ generosity and potential additional money, I heard some employees even paid to get their positions. I’m not sure if that was or is still true, but who would have guessed that. Unfortunately, housekeepers work in an out-of-sight, out-of-mind scenario. We see the rolling carts in the hallways, but rarely encounter our own cleaner in the room, which may be why they often get short changed.


So, since almost all casinos now include a hotel property, it is worth a lesson on  experts admit ignorance.


In 2017, the New York Times investigated hotel guest tipping. They discovered that fewer


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