A comfy chair, here's some news, wages already have gone down - most pax and many airline marketing departments do see us as primarily for comfort/service, no matter how many times we tell them it's for their safety.
In my airline, we only have on-board charity collections during the summer months, so for the rest of the year, what's so wrong with tips going to my Fiat 500 fund?
As for those of you working in airlines where you have to say how much cash you've got on you at the start of the day, I can't believe their nerve! They trust us to evacuate an aircraft (i.e. not be the first one off after opening the door), but can't trust us with the till? Checkout chicks don't even receive this amount of employer bullying.