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
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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, 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 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
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 working in a restaurant. On the receipt under "tip" someone actually took the time to write out "$0.00." FML
Today, at work, 5 minutes after I'd sent my help home, we got an 83 dollar order. I'm the only cook. 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, at work, a man bought a lot of really expensive stuff. He paid the large bill with cash, and the manager helped me count the money. When we were done, he handed me a $100 bill to thank me for all the help. We can't accept tips. The manager was next to me. I had to say no. FML
Today, my parents came to the restaurant I work at as a waiter. After, I picked up the check to realize they had left me a $500 tip! We split the tips among the employees so I only got $50 back but I was still psyched. When I got home they asked me if I had noticed that they used my credit card. FML
Today, after about 8 hours of working and making huge orders, I received my share of tips. It was only a quarter. One single quarter. FML
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alphaxzero 0
who the hell tips takeout? no one.
bubuchi3 0
most people i know don't leave tips when they order food to go, i guess coz most of the work put into it was done by the cooks, not the waiter/waitress. or something like that.
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rbond93 4
wat a dick
mpclaw 3
you should have run it for 40 dollars. I assume he gave you a 10% tip and rounded it up. duh
leadrunner751 3
that's worse than no tip
skeleton_skinner 0
Wow some people on here are stuck up faggots. Waiters get paid less and most of their income are tips.
jyd62 0
cheap basturd
jyd62 0
hey snickerdoodles your pretty hot!!!
ragsy 7
I'm a big tipper, but I've never tipped for take out.
purplemnm 9
I'm sick of minors showing their shit on the Internet they get raped and then cry about it when they deserved for posting naked pics online
disgruntledyouth 0
You should have called him a selfish fatass
rjhen 0
Minimum wage here is $7.40/hour. Where I work, our servers make about $2.60/hour plus tips. At the end of their shift, they are required by law to claim 100% of their tips, which they are taxed on, or they are required by our employer to claim 12% of their total sales as tips, which they are taxed on, whichever is higher. To my knowledge, my employer does not make up the difference between the server hourly wage and the minimum hourly wage if the server's tips do not equate to an extra $4.80/hour -- which, by the way, assuming 15% tips, means that the server is selling $32 of product per hour. On a slow day, I've seen servers get one $10 table in four hours. Everyone should tip a bare minimum of 10 percent of their bill. This is expected. If you don't want to be an ass, you should tip 15 percent. If you want to make your server's day, tip 20 percent or higher. Be aware that NOT tipping your server (or delivery driver) at an establishment you frequent will have negative repercussions. Your food WILL get "forgotten" and left under the warmer. Your drinks WILL take much longer to arrive. Your hot meal WILL be cold, or your cold meal WILL be warm. For delivery, if a driver has to take more than one delivery at a time, someone who tips well WILL be the first to receive their food, and someone who tips poorly or not at all WILL go on the bottom of the pile. Poor tippers WILL have their 2-liters mysteriously shaken up, or their salads put on the car's defroster and heated to wilting temperature, or their pizza bags opened to the cold air. If you don't tip, don't be surprised when you get consistently shitty service. Some servers or drivers are not vindictive enough to make your dining experience unpleasant, but remember: most of them are making half or less of the minimum wage, so when they don't get their expected tip, they DO get cranky.
dyschordia 0
So basically, you lot work on implied blackmail to get your money? People deserve a tip just because they don't spit in your food but otherwise to a mediocre to crappy job? Well THERE'S an ethical culture for you! And before you get on your high horses about me needing to get a job in the industry - I worked in it for YEARS before I decided to go to uni and get a better life. Admittedly, I work in Australia where (as much as we bitch and moan) the workers get a better deal than many places around the world. I would much rather pay more for a meal and know that the workers are at least getting a living wage than go to one of the festy pestholes you lot seem to work in and pay less but have to tip for fear of random DNA in my food. Your sense of entitlement and obligation from (but not to) the customer is disgusting. Take some of that belligerence and make your managers pay you what your legal system says they have to pay you, ffs!
esushi 0
In the United States, many servers literally get paychecks that have "$0.00" written on them after taxes. Their pay is specifically set up to cover all the taxes, and then what they ACTUALLY take home SOLELY CONSISTS of tips. It is up to the customers to pay the servers their wage. How much you make in Australia is completely irrelevant to this person's problem.
dyschordia 0
*sigh* Interesting that you pick on the part of my post that I already acknowledged has no real relevance to the point I was making (the bit that started with admittedly... implies that I acknowledge the differences in wages and conditions in different countries). What I was saying was that I am aware of what is involved working in the hospitality industry with regards to the hours, the customers, the dodgy bosses, the actual work involved. I maintain that the implied, no - outright blackmail that many of the posters have posted is the result of a bullshit attitude. "Give us tips OR ELSE we'll spit in your food next time" displays the mentality of a 5 year old. I also stand by my point that I would rather pay more for a meal and know that the workers were paid a decent wage than feel obligated to tip someone who does a lame job. I think that this would cover the "it is up to the customers to pay the servers their wage" claim that you make. Why is it that all of the servers who are posting here seem to be willing to accept the abysmal pay rate and pay taxes on tips that they may or may not recaive but they are not willing to make the bosses and government fulfil their end of the contract? Just curious, but do you guys have unions? Are they active at all? Look, I understand there are different practices in different cultures and of course I would tip if I were eating in a restaurant in the US, but it seems to me that you guys are getting screwed and still supporting the system. If you could all channel the anger and resentment that seems to be directed at the customers and aim it at your legislators, maybe you could get some decent conditions for yourselves. I agree that people are entitled to take money home for their hard work. I don't agree that the threat of contaminating food to extort money from customers (and let's face it, this is what is under discussion in this part of the discussion) is the right way to go about obtaining it.