On 14 May 2004 at 8:20, Sue Bodemer wrote:

> Hi!
>
> What do ya'll tell your staff (especially security guards) about tips?  Have
> they been offered to them by visitors?  Are they allowed to accept them?
> What if the visitor INSISTS?

Dear Sue Bodemer,

Interesting question, even though I really do not like the
'especially security guards' specification. How about curators and
museum directors with their dinner parties, business trips all over
the world, free catalogues and books, gifts by artists, and their
pleasant annual income ... ?

Start paying your guards a proper salary, put up a sign 'no tips' at
the entrance, and especially at the cloak room of your museum, and
this question will become obsolete.

Why not develop a 'no tips' policy in your museum without sending
this prejudiced suggestion about your guards on Museum-L for the
global museum community to read?


Ton Cremers








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