<p>“It’s the equivalent of the front desk clerk at a hotel who distributes upgrades based on “tips” presented at check-in. Hotels have specific guidelines for how upgrades are awarded; the size of a tip to an individual employee is not one of the accepted criteria.”</p>
<p>Wait, people present tips at hotels upon check-in? Never heard of that. It sounds likes like a bribe. Why would you give the front desk clerk a tip for checking you in? That sounds like a major breach of a companies policy, I can’t imagine them allowing someone to accept money at the front desk.</p>
<p>“No, and I’ve never known anyone who has. If it was valuable to you, you wouldn’t lose it”.</p>
<p>“Really? That statement sounds awful judge-y. Are you sure you aren’t a parent? That sounds like something my mean grandma used to say.”</p>
<p>Ha, couldn’t be a parent. He hasn’t gone through the experience of briefly losing his kid when they disappeared under the clothes rack of a department store before. Or at the park, when they hide behind the tree. Just wait…</p>
<p>Busdriver, although I have never done that, apparently, slipping a $20 bill with your ID is not unheard of. I do not think Marriotts etc. specifically prohibit this, but I could be wrong. </p>
<p>I found $100 on the floor at the checkout of a cafe in a middle eastern airport. I sat nearby and waited for half an hour but nobody came back all upset looking for the money. So I just kept it - if I handed it in to airport security they would still be laughing at me today I bet.</p>
<p>Responding to Busdriver, post #60: It IS a bribe; that’s my point. But people try to do it and crooked front desk clerks sometimes accept. It is an example of an employee stealing from the hotel. The reason that bribes are “slipped” with id’s etc. instead of just handed over is precisely because it is against company policy for the front desk clerk to sell upgrades based on payments made to directly to the employee. </p>
<p>I found a pile of money one year at Christmas time on a stack of books in Barnes and Noble. I took it over to the main desk and they said that some man was frantically looking for it. I’m sure he sat it down as he was looking for books. I have also found and kept $20 that blew into our yard.</p>