FYI, the cleaning crew redeemed themselves. They did a beautiful job with the stainless, the floors were spotless and I haven’t detected any broken items . . . yet. I think they knew their asses were on the line. I guess I’ll tip them the next time. 
Now before you go thinking I’m an ogre (which would be easy to do if you read this blog regularly), I tip the cleaning people sporadically, but when I tip, I tip well. I was certainly not going to reward them for doing a bad job with the floors and doing damage to my home.
Looks like I’ll be hiring them again.
And FYI, I always tip 20% in restaurants (unless the service sucks, in which case I tip 15%). I certainly don’t want to contribute to the theory that black people don’t give good tips. There are enough of us that feed that stereotype, and I’m determined to be the exception.
Hey! I always leave a 15% tip in restaurants because I thought that was the standard. Am I contributing to a “bad tipper” stereotype? Sure, leaving more than 15% is better, but is 15% bad?
15% is okay. It’s standard. Truthfully, I tip 20% mostly out of sheer laziness. It’s easy to double the tax to come up with the amount of tip.
I’ve never done it the tax-doubling way. I usually just drop the last numeral and double the result (so $25.95 becomes $2.59, or 2.60 because I, too, am lazy, so the tip becomes $5.20…yeah, I guess your way is easier!)