Today, I was working as a waitress at this pub. It was dead. After 4 hours I had only made 5$ in tips. A friendly couple came in and complimented EVERYTHING down to the freshness of the lemons in their tea. The bill came to $50. They left me a $5 gift card to Starbucks. I don't drink coffee. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, while I was working at Starbucks, a customer spilled her drink all over the counter. After I cleaned up her spill and remade the drink (for free), she exclaimed, "Thanks! I should really tip you!" Then she turned around, walked directly past the tip jar, and left the store. FML
Today, after starting my new career as a server, two women were kind enough to leave a $5 tip… while still owing $6.84 on their bill. FML
Today, I was complimented by my guests about the great of service I was giving them. They then left me a $2 tip on a $50 tab. FML
Today, at work, I served a group of three teens. Their tab was $75 and they tipped me nothing. They wrote a thank you on a piece of receipt paper, put it in a glass of water and used a coaster to turn the glass of water upside down on the table, spilling water everywhere. They also stole my pen. FML
Today, I'm a waitress. A customer came in and acted very kindly and even mentioned how I was such a help to her. She also mentioned leaving a nice tip. The tip? A fake $20. Thanks. FML
Today, I went into work to waitress on a table of 40 guests. They were my only table for the day and the bill came to over 700 dollars. After they left the busser was cleaning the table and threw out the credit card receipt which had my tip on it. FML
Today, I was waitressing for a huge family. Their bill was $750. Excited about the tip, I was shocked to see only $0.50. As they were leaving, I threw the two whole quarters at their heads. Guess who also got fired today. FML
Today, I was the only carhop at work for the last 2 hours. In that time, I waited on about 50 cars. I make server pay so I depend on tips, but none of them tipped me even a penny. I averaged under $3 an hour tonight. FML
Today, while I was working as a waitress, I had to wait on a table of 13 people. I was struggling through it and when they finally left I went by the table to pick up my tip. Instead of a money I got a napkin saying, "Here's your tip, don't be a waitress." FML
Today, a customer tried to pay for a $1.55 cup of coffee with a gift card, but he came up a dollar short. He let another customer through while he fumbled in his pocket for money. I later noticed a dollar had disappeared from my tip jar. FML
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Top comments
Kitola 2
Well, there's tea and pastries there, too, yanno. I always get a Chai when I go there. No reason to be completely thankless.
imkendra 0
Ooh, burn! I was tipped with toothbrushes once. Hey cool, number 1 =D
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Comments (306)
offtheheezy 0
Dude, at least they gave you something AND complimented on everything. It's not like they left nothing for you and complained about everything.
kk8293 0
i completely agree with #113. fantastically explained. this is not a fml so stop complaining. It could be so much worse.
dancing_bear 0
It's a crappy tip but, you do know that Starbucks don't only sell coffee?
ryan1592 0
LOL
omnomnomchomp 0
To be fair, waiters/waitresses don't even make minimum. Last time I checked/had a waitressing job, they make $2.63 an hour. And then you keep what you make in tips to "make up" the rest. To be called ungrateful for wanting to make a living seems ridiculous, no? And tipping in a gift card is just plain rude to begin with.
ryan1592 0
if you hate your job as a waitress so much then stop complaining and quit.
theredshark 0
time to stark drinking coffee
curlygirl246 0
This is horrendous. A gift card is not a tip. I make $2.13 an hour as a waitress and most servers have to tip out (bartender, host/hostess, busboys). This means that it cost this server money to wait on this table. Plus, to make this even more FML worthy, I bet when she went to starbucks there wasn't even $5 on it.
LilRunt 0
Trust me, I know the feeling, I'm a waitress and we get the same crap!!! Hope ur next day is better!!
LilRunt 0
wow, I have read alot the comments posted, and I'm a waitress and it's a hard job, u try lifting a 20lb tray on ur shoulder, not dropping it, and dealing with rude people who don't know that we live off our tips. and yeh it's our job but really u people are rude!!!