It’s been far too long in between updates here, and I’ve been personally asked on numerous occasions to step up my game. Well for my brother’s sake, I’m going to post this up because it was quite shocking to me, and I personally think it sucks.
So my brother works for an unnamed valet parking company in Boston. Obviously everyone knows valets work on a tip basis. So one night a few weeks ago, local hero, Jon Lester was at the restaurant he worked at. As you can imagine, for someone like him they give a VIP treatment, valet his truck and keep it close so he doesn’t have to wait long when he wants to leave.
The valet fee is $14 and generally speaking a tip to the valet is considered to be standard. When Lester was leaving, he not only skipped out on the valet fee (which if not paid comes out of the valet’s pocket; fortunately the restaurant paid for it) as well as a tip for the valets. Below is a snapshot of Lester’s baseball profile, and highlighted below is his 2009 salary. A meager one million dollars.
Maybe this is a case of ignorance, but I can hardly imagine he didn’t tip the waitstaff inside the building. I guess he’s just too cheap to tip the guys that go to the games so this guy can get paid. I’m awfully disappointed that someone who’s makes that kind of money, and receives really good treatment in a city that loves our local players. I guess your $14+ richer Jon.
