I always just figured vegas culture is a bit different than other places. You tip where maybe you wouldn't in another city, that is just how it is.

Also former parking attendant here. If you're nice and press right buttons we will get you a nice spot. If you're handicapped or a driver with someone famous in back seat we will especially make some accommodations for you. Had some NFL players once and I literally told their driver park anywhere you want. If you're a dickhead then yea "the lot is full".

If I hadn't have, I wouldn't have pointed out the hypocrisy of you asking a tipping question, and then contesting the answers, and then declaring people shouldn't be tipped that much, and then bragging about how knowledgable you are at tipping.

It's not surprising that you find LLSNL rigid. I bet you ask people how to play a hand, and then tell respondants that they don't understand the table like you do and argue your nonstandard line was unquestionably brilliant.

The easiest thing is for you to stop asking questions you don't want to hear the answers to. Make a blog and then get all your friends to circle jerk in the comments saying how great you played it, I think you will be much happier.

Thanks for letting us take a look into the valet work DBurg, good post.

FWIW, nobody suggested valets should get a different job. On the contrary, I said that people could look into becoming valets if they thought that job was so great.

As for the rest of your post, I think it’s pretty well known that the US is the worst country in the Western World to live in if you are working class or poor. The reasons for that are also known. People in France threaten a general strike if their government tries to F them in the booty, people in the US ask for a little vaseline next time. But that’s a topic for the politics forum.

I don't they should all/necessarily get a new job, but I think they should if the overall compensation isn't what they expected (instead of browbeating customers into tipping more).

The fundamental problem with tipping is that it's at the whim of what people think. People learn to tip $2, and maybe that doesn't change as fast as inflation. Or people move from a region with different tipping expectations and think they are tipping well when they are not. Some people may assume you pool tips and some may not, others may not even know pooling is a thing or tipping out is a thing. People may assume that tip income is poorly reported taxwise so they think people earning half an income is fine.

When 75% of your income is based on what other people think but never say, you're going to deal with a lot of variance.

Incredibly spot on post.

And it is often a level of professionalism that allowed the patrons to be AT the 5-star resorts and willing to tip $5 in the first place.

I am not going to tell people what to tip but it is frustrating listing to cheap people whine and snivel when others DO tip well (perhaps even to the point of over-tipping).