Maybe he got lousy service and should have said
so but this low life with a clerical collar stiffed the waitress and goes into
a song and dance about how he “gives God” 10%. Like God really needs it.
If I was God I would tell him to go Feck himself!.
Earlier this week, we posted a story about a
restaurant customer who not only chose to deny the waitress a tip, but also
wrote “I Give God 10% Why do you Get 18?” on the receipt. Now we’ve learned
that the server who posted the receipt online has been fired.
“I originally posted the note as a lighthearted
joke,” says Chelsea, who was dismissed from her job at Applebee’s on Wednesday,
as the story began to spread across the Internet. “I thought the note was
insulting, but it was also comical. I posted it to Reddit because I thought
other users would find it entertaining.”
Chelsea tells Consumerist that the receipt was
actually not even for her table. Rather, the server on the receiving end of the
note showed it to Chelsea, who snapped a photo of it later that night.
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For someone who makes their living off of tips,
it seems like the customer’s note was salt in the wound for Chelsea.
“We make $3.50 an hour. Most of my paychecks
are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make,”
she explains. “After sharing my tips with hosts, bussers, and bartenders, I
make less than $9/hr on average, before taxes.
In her job, Chelsea says she skipped bathroom
breaks when things got busy, went hungry when she had to work several tables at
a time, would work until 1:30 a.m. and then come back in at 10:30 a.m.
“I am expected to portray a canned personality
that has been found to be least offensive to the greatest amount of people,”
she tells Consumerist. “I come home exhausted, sore, burnt, dirty, and
blistered on a good day. And after all that, I can be fired for ‘embarrassing’
someone who directly insults their server on religious grounds.”
Chelsea agrees with those who argue in favor of
a payment system that doesn’t make restaurant servers reliant on tips.
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