Today, I ordered take out, and paid with a credit card. The cute cashier gave me the receipt to sign, and under 'tip' I gave a couple of dollars. I realized that I had given too much, crossed it out, and changed it. Unaware she was watching, She then responded, "Did you just lower the tip by $1?" FML
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Today, a lady handed me a $10 tip on a $45 bill. I was happy with it, since it was more than 20%, until she came back in and said, "I'm sorry I gave you the wrong amount." I handed it back to her and then she gave me a dollar. FML
Today, I was doing takeout orders at the restaurant I work at. I spent a long while putting together this guy's $135.00 order. When he finally got there to pick it up, I told him to fill out the credit card slip. I looked at it after he left. He gave me a 40 cent tip. FML
Today, I ordered pizza for dinner and left cash by the door so my son could pay for it, in case it arrived before I got home. I told him they should get all the money, but I just found the tip. Apparently he thought I'd miscounted. I'm a server. FML
Today, I went to a restaurant and only brought $14 with me to eat. I ordered and ate my meal, then went to the counter to pay for it. I threw $2 into the tip jar then got my bill. My bill was $13.86. I had to reach into the tip jar and take my $2 back so I could pay for my meal. FML
Today, I was working in a restaurant. On the receipt under "tip" someone actually took the time to write out "$0.00." 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
Today, I was waitering at the restaurant that I work at when I collected a credit card bill that was worth $120 and a big zero on the tip line. Angered, I turned to a co-worker and said "I knew this asshole wasn't going to tip me." The guy was standing right behind me with $30 in his hand. FML
Today, I withdrew €40 at the ATM to pay for dinner later tonight. It wasn't until I went to pay for it that I realized I'd taken the receipt, but left the cash in the ATM. FML
Today, I had a customer write "fuck you" in the tip option area on his credit card slip, I have no idea why. FML
Today, a customer handed me a 100 dollar bill. He then told me that it was my tip for doing a good job. He snatched it away just as I touched it, laughed, and said, "Just kidding." He then took his money and left the store. FML
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delphina 0
What does it matter if she saw you do it or not? She would have seen it crossed out in a little bit anyway. It's a weird thing that you would bother to cross it out and lower it by only a dollar, seeing as how a dollar is relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but it's just weird as opposed to horrible. Plus, it was only take out, people don't normally tip on take out at all so if I were her, I'd feel grateful to have even gotten a couple dollars.
bart62 0
I think what he means is that he wants the waiter to make the night good by providing good service and that they should have to work for a big tip and not just expect it
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turtlebots 0
Well, #45/#144 maybe you should get a better job.
john6391 0
Id be like "sabes que for that comment im lowering it another dollar"
cdj 0
I'm sure there's a number of reasons for crossing off $1. First of all, the OP may have only had a small order and may have only tipped $2 or something small, then realized he was way overtipping for the service he got. It may sound like an asshole thing to do, but if the person doesn't deserve the extra dollar, they don't deserve it, end of story. I certainly wouldn't pay someone, especially someone working minimum wage in takeout, a 20% tip if they only deserved 10% or even a 30% if they only deserved 20%. You have to think about it percentage wise rather than by amount. If he gave a 20% tip to someone who really only deserved 10%, they are going to think they are giving better service than they are. Not to mention, take-out doesn't really require as much service as waiting does, so I don't really see how it is "tip worthy." And #45, you should really talk to your employer because you can only be paid sub-minimum wage if you are in a waitstaff position, which takeout is not. Also, I believe it is federal law (although it could just be state law for my state) that employers are required to make up the difference between a waiter's hourly pay and minimum wage that is not made up by tips. So if minimum wage is $7.50 an hour and a waiter makes $2.50 an hour and receives no tips that night, their employer is required to pay them that extra $5.00 per hour that they did not make. I always tip because my bill pays for the food I ate and the tip pays for the service I received from the waiter. Rarely do I leave a small tip or no tip because regardless of how bad the service was, they still brought me my food. However, for takeout, unless it's delivery, I don't tip. Here people who work take out are required to be paid minimum wage. Regardless, take out is not really providing me with a service above and beyond providing me food. Anyone who says "they only make minimum wage" can come work with me, where we serve rude, obnoxious customers all day, at minimum wage with no tips.
dingleberrybop 0
she can just shut the **** up, cause it's your decision how much you want to pay her.
YallNoobs 0
bitch shouldn't even get any tip for take out.
shley 0
i wouldnt have even tipped her, and its your money, itll teach her that she needs to go to college instead of spending her life at a dead end job
tsukinoie 11
She could be working her way through college and without people working those "dead end jobs" you would have no one to serve your food and have to cook all your meals... But wait who would stock the shelves at the stores? Or ring your order? Think before you speak.
playerhata 0
no tip for take-out, and after that exclamation from the cutie cashier, i would have crossed the whole tip section off and said "i just lowered it by (total amount), bitch. pwn pwn pwn!" such geek.
Jessyca_fml 0
A little advice never do that when a server is looking at you :/ They will of course get mad at you and most likely remember you very very well and tell all the other people working there, that you are a meanie head.
awesomemegan 0
Not too much of an FML You're never going to see her again. So what if one person thinks your cheap? Oh well. It was unprofessional of her to comment on that, but who cares? And did you know that most pizza places actually add a tip into the final price. Well if you were getting pizza delivered, I'm not actually sure what you were getting. But yeah. So really, you're tipping these people twice.
Minstrels 0
I like how everyone's pissed at you for the dollar, hoping they piss in your food in it and shit, etc., and their argument is that it's just a dollar, you should've paid it, blah blah blah, and well... It's just a ******* dollar people. Christ. Who gives a **** if he lowered it by a dollar? Did SHE really need that dollar? ****, if she'd said that to me, I would've just crossed out the whole tip line. God I hate food service. I hate tipping when I feel service was awful (even if a miniscule amount), but I feel obligated because I know how shit they get paid.