What is the tipping etiquette for a rental front desk staff? i.e. signing packages and guests?
How many staff - do you like them - are they helpful
About 4/5 people I see on a rotational basis.
The staff is nice and some-what cordial. i.e. they smile and say good morning. I mostly initiate jokes and try to humanize the experience. Mostly they just pick-up packages and sign in guests; not a hard job, just boring.
The building markets itself is a new semi-luxury building in the city but a non-core location. The building is mostly filled with 20s/30s somethings with good but not amazing jobs.
According to Brick Underground, the general range for each doorman is $25-$75 per apartment in New York. It’s higher if you live is a very expensive building. If you are a young guy living alone and not with kids or other things that cause issues, I would guess that you can get away with the low end of the scale.
I’m not sure what the standard is in Boston, but I don’t think it will be that different. I’m thinking of asking random people in my building about this, since this is the first year in which I am living in a doorman building. However, I expect a wide range of answers.
You should probably tip even the people you don’t see often, since it’s not nice if they have a bad shift or they just do work than is unseen.
$100
$150-200, gifted around Christmas
I’ve never had a doorman, but if a building with a door man costs more than a very similar building without a doorman, the answer is $0. You can’t charge more for an amenity and then also expect me to tip. If your building has a pool, do you tip the guy that comes out to clean it? Perhaps I’m just not used to a door man, but they sure seem about as useful as the guy in the titty bar bathroom who dispense paper towels for me. He should be paying me. You know how hard it is to take a shit with him standing their with a bar cart full of chiclets and cologne?
u pay this much per person?
my buddy’s building has 4/5 front desk folks, 2/3 maintenance guys…thats like over $1000 lol
My building has about 150 units. If each apartment gave $175, each doorman would receive $26250 in tips! Maybe it’s normal for some bsd places…
never
Respect.
Doormen remember who tipped hem (or rather they note who didn’t).
Doormen can make your life much easier at times. When they like you, they can smooth a lot of stuff over. When they don’t give a crap, you’ll feel it.
can we arbitrage this by getting a part time job as a front desk person in december?
having CFA on the resume will surely get you a gig at one of the fancy joints in nyc right?
I just moved int oa building with no doorman but a super who is incredibly helpful and is always around to help, veen helped us carry some stuff in when we moved in. Only been there a few months so figured we would give him $50 for Christmas this year, I couldn’t imagine giving each doorman a bit, they have such a scam going on in NYC.
Doorman are paid appropriately.
If I literally had somebody that opened the door for me every morning, I would give a tip, but I don’t feel the need to tip the front desk “concierge” staff that I hardly ever utilize. And I am generally an above-average tipper.
Tipping is perverse. “Hey little Johny, here’s something for you. Go buy some candy.”
Never quite understood. Bring a beer to the counter, you get a buck. Bring a big mac to the counter, get a thank you. My building’s association even post fliers encouraging people to donate to the cause. The “suggested donation” is $100. Tacky for sure. I never participate. 13 people on staff, full time. Over 300 units.
Want more money for doing your job, negotiate a raise or move on. Hell, in our industry most send gifts to their clients/employers.
Without tips, servers would have to be paid higher salaries. These higher salaries would just increase sticker prices to customers, so overall cost would not decrease. However, when part of server compensation is moved to tips, servers have more incentive to provide good service.
Therefore, customers would not save any money if tipping was eliminated. In fact, since more server compensation will be “on the books” and subject to taxes, cost to customers might actually increase. In addition, customers might receive worse service due to changes in the way servers are rewarded.
The restaurants that give servers a % of the total profits have apparently increased customer satisfaction and worker morale while getting rid of tipping. It’s not black and white with low hourly & tips or straight salary, there are still ways to incentivize staff while getting rid of tipping. Would link article but I am on mobile and can’t find it
The primary reason tipping hasn’t been abandoned, it’s starting to be, is that many in management like not being responsible for compensation. There is plenty of motivation to do good work. You get to keep your job. The idea that good service is only obtainable through tipping is laughable. Tipping just distorts compensation. Restaurateurs are learning that they can more efficiently allocate compensation if they take control. The practice has seen its heyday. Oh, what will the swinging dicks do when they have to find another way to throw money around and feel important.