Hotel doormen, however, come across as having one of the most lucrative and coveted service jobs.
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Doormen told him that on most days only 10 people are in the building.
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We're talking 2, 000 square feet and up, often with commanding views and amenities like doormen.
Some even provided coffee and doughnuts for their beloved doormen picketing at their door.
Already doormen are showing tenants how to work the lifts and the security cameras.
Most tenants are so close to their doormen that they think of them as family.
The club has 70 dancers, plus about 30 doormen, cleaners, cashiers and other employees.
He walked me to my doorstep nearby and in front of the doormen looked me in the eye.
Safety hosts - doormen - sport grey suits and slate grey polar necks.
But there are downsides: The doormen watch them, blog about them, and, sometimes, do unofficial Google-based background checks.
But it is often more efficient to rely on tipsters such as security guards, doormen, chauffeurs and restaurant staff.
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Still, more than three dozen doormen have already been nominated by tenants.
He is the author, most recently, of Doormen: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries.
"We will like each other until we find out who wins this contest, " said Mr. Smith, 27 years old, of a virtual beauty pageant for New York doormen.
The privileged few who have doormen in their buildings get to have someone to receive their packages and visitors, and keep the riff raff out of the building.
The doormen's union is determined to avoid any such concessions.
No one would have imagined Kendall making his weekly drop-off at the mailbox outside the all-cash building (to keep the doormen from noticing the deposit envelopes addressed to the Kewanee bank).
Dominated by showy nightclubs and a "face control" policy that sees doormen turning away clubbers whose image doesn't fit the venue's, what the clubbing scene lacks in innovation it makes up for in energy and high-end hedonism.
Mr Bearman noted that in the previous doormen's strike, which lasted 12 days in 1991, the doormen helped tenants prepare for their absence, after which most residents were glad to pitch in by mopping floors or screening visitors.
Through this effort they have also reached out to doormen, private security guards, and transit workers, and have enlisted the help of the general public through public awareness campaigns that encourage everyone to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to police.
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There were serf-like doormen, invisible porters who hauled out the trash, a squad of Polish maids who came Wednesday and Friday mornings to pick up after Kendall and scrub the toilet in the Moorish bathroom and tidy up the sunny kitchen where he ate his lunch.
So we've done the legwork for you, talking with concierges, tourist boards, and other travelers to find out the real protocol on when (and when not) to reach into your wallet and how much of a tip you should give to waiters, sky caps, maids, doormen, and cabbies all over the world.
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