Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=22281797'>posted</a> on 07/22/2014:

Quote Originally Posted by Burkina2008 View Post
What a joke you are, America is horrible to live in, there is poverty everywhere, you have a dumb illusion of freedom and everytime I come here on business I just count the days to leave. You have zero culture, people on average are uneducated and although I enjoy the cheap shopping sprees because a lot of stuff here is cheaper than in Europe, the fact that the employees are always dumb and completly oblivious to their environment is just frustraiting.
Example a few years ago I was in NY and I wanted to check out the "Ghostbusters" building in Tribeca. I went to the W part instead of the E part of the street by mistake and I asked people for directions. 4 didnt even know what the Ghostbusters movie was...and this is American "culture"

I never ever leave a tip in hotel room (with the status that I have at Hilton and SPG due to the amount of travelling, if anything is wrong I just complain and get comps and if anything really is bad I just say that the person should be fired and they give me free hotel nights or points) and in restaurants I do just because the company pays what is on the *********** statement

Tipping impoves service? Non-sense. If you paid the waitresses their deserved salary they would do their jobs, if they gave a poor service, they would be fired, like in 99% of the countries in the world
America has its share of problems, but tipping isn't one of them. That's just the way business is done here, and it's not a big deal. Prices would be higher if workers' pay was taken out of the revenues instead of tips. Making a big deal out of tipping is downright silly. If you don't leave a tip for a hotel maid, that is your right. I get enjoyment out of leaving tips for maids that work a tough job. But it's your choice. Just as it's rude for me to go to France and ask someone a question in English without first saying hello in French, not tipping at a restaurant in the States is rude. If you don't tip when you are not on the company's dime, you should do so. You have to adapt to the culture wherever you are. You can't take your custom into a foreign country and say this is how it's done back home. That is disrepectful.