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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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madbadsad 0
Haha, don't go there again, you'll have you food spit into.
VolleyballSMASH 1
I would have crossed it out and put zero.
ILIEKGIRLS 5
lol you cheapass.
Loosechange 0
He is not a cheap ass you are supposed to give 15% of the cost or more for a tip and maybe he put extra and he does not have a lot left so he took it away.
Metzler31 17
I never tip on take out. If I am not being waited on or otherwise helped, I do not tip. The only person who should take credit for my meal is the cook, who would not receive any of the tips anyway...
sabembermoff 1
181- actually in most restaurants the cooks and kitchen staff do get a share of the tips. and any meal, including take out, that doesn't have tips left for it, costs the servers tips. 4-5% of the tip goes towards the cost of the food, so if no tip is left, they have to pay out of their tips towards it.
neverland_fml 0
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I think I am going to be one of the new people who will support this and say FYL. I don't tip unless the waiter has done exceptional work. I don't expect him to do backflips, but I always seem to get the sloppy waiters who think they are entitled to a tip just because they do their job. Ugh, no. If you want more money than you make, get a second job or make me feel like a special customer, not that hard. If you didn't think she deserved that much, I stand behind you 100%.
aleia18 3
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You only tip if they treat you different? Do you know that waiters and waitress's only make 5 dollars an hour. That means we rely on your tip to actually make what a normal person would make at a job. If your not going to tip go somewhere you do not have too. You obviously never waited tables because if you did I guarantee your attitude would change really quick.
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
sillysh 0
I'm pretty sure if they make less than minimum wage the employer has to supplement the rest? Atleast that's what I read while on break at work.
pheebs314 17
Where I live, they make minimum and tips are bonuses. I usually tip anyways unless I got bad service. My sister is a waitress and she makes more than I do per hour before tips.
CaptainCommenter 6
#193 that is.
KBurns207 17
Most waiters / delivery drivers etc get paid minimum wage and RELY on their tips to get by. If you don't tip for any reason other than the service was terrible, you're pretty much a dick. You don't know what it's like working in the food industry obviously. You can always tell who has or hasn't by how appreciative someone is.
delude 26
3, you're not a king so don't expect to be treated like one. The only kind of special treatment you'll be getting is the one with quotation marks around it
alice_18 16
I am a waitress in Georgia, and here I get paid 2.15 an hour, and 100% of that goes to pay my taxes. If my table doesn't tip me, I essentially have to pay to do my job.
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.
rnath23 4
bullshit, people do tip on take-out. you should tip on take out. if you have ever worked at a restaurant you would know that taking and wrapping up to-go orders is a big pain in the ass and it takes you away from your tables which are tipping you more. So you should tip a few bucks. you don't need to tip 20% but at least give $3-5.
roflfml 0
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i agree with #5 about #3 cross 1 dollar off? cheap ass
awesomeamandas 37
it isn't being cheap if you're saving money you don't have. Sure, the likelihood of OP not having the extra dollar is probably low, but it's not an impossible scenario.
RNorthlandLGB 0
1 dollar...are you kidding me...? won't say anything racist but you know what i'm thinking
trecool999 0
I agree it was only $1, but they only make minimum wage after all.
so_me_fml 0
Erm, am I the only one that finds this neither funny nor an FML?
ihearttostitos 0
now that you look at it.....
matt5217 4
are you actually a panda?
mooshibear140 4
#9 I like your picture. OP, that was sorta cheap. once you made the mistake of writing the wrong number, you shouldn't have change it.
ZoZo17_fml 0
nope
suckerz 0
no you're not # 9... what were you gonna do with the $1 that made you lower the tip??? that's just cheapassing... and I hate cheap people...
stringbeanjeanoo 0
i was a waitress for 4 years. when i order take out i always tip even if just a little bit -take out isnt like you are waited on hand and foot. AND every minimum wage job has a tip jar this day. as a professional she shouldnt be commenting to you on how you tip. if youre eating out, tip 15-20%. picking up, a couple bucks is sufficient. but commenting on it was inappropriate on her part.