Hilton reviews

The cons have to do with the bellman position itself; at my location, I was fulltime & minimum-wage (in Virginia, it's $12 an hour). Now you'd expect the tips to make up for it, but it was rare that I got any good tips here. And I've worked for other hotels & made AMAZING tips at those other hotels, so I know I'm good at my job--its just the clientele at my particular Hilton-location were cheap. I wouldn't mind this as much if I was part-time and if i was able to do something else more productive (like be in college at the same time), but the bellman-position here *requires* you to be 40 hours a week. With bad tips, $12 an hour fulltime (while doing nothing else to help your social mobility) is not sustainable in today's world, so the position burned me out (And it doesn't help that you can't sit down at ALL on the job). The benefits are GREAT--but the pay itself: not so much. In the end, It just wasn't worth it since there was no 100% guarantee of moving up from bellman.

There are office politics just like every where else. Gotta be really diligent with up-keeping your work performance, so you're not the one at the bottom that they consider to have a "talk" to pressure you to leave. Even if your performance review went well and had positive feedback from your leader, it's still possible that they come and surprise you with a suggestion to consider "other areas" to find a job in. It's pretty scary and stressful to be put into this situation without any transparent communication about their actual thoughts on the performance.