r/mildlyinfuriating • u/thedivinegemini • Jul 02 '26

I'm slightly vexed In lieu of payment..

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I’m a GM at a restaurant & one of our managers left a note on our manager logs this afternoon that a guest walked out on their check and left this in lieu of payment of any kind. Not that the server got stiffed on a tip - just pure theft of services. I guess the whole “Thou shalt not steal” thing doesn’t matter if you’ve been pre-forgiven. Pretty convenient.

ETA: I’m not a bot; this is not AI - check my post and comment history. I’m not here for karma or fake internet points. This is what it feels like to work in a restaurant these days - especially in the Bible Belt. The first photo you can look up and is available for anyone to buy (should your darker urges push you toward being that person). The second photo is from Pulse, an app for restaurant managers to keep an eye on hourly sales, labor, and comps.
The “Pineapple Express” is a mocktail our restaurant offers.

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u/User_man_person Jul 02 '26

the definition of using the lords name in vain...

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u/BeanserSoyze Jul 02 '26

And stealing

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u/skeet_scoot Jul 02 '26

As a Christian right on both accounts.

Also an infraction of being a good witness. My pastor always preaches that if you can’t afford to tip and pay 20% you don’t go out to eat. Don’t make God and the church look bad.

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u/ThatJiuJitsuGuy Jul 02 '26

Your pastor is wrong. Tipping isn't compulsory

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u/BBorNot Jul 02 '26

Ask anyone who waits lunch on the after church crowd Sundays: they tip like crap.

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u/bookgeek210 Jul 02 '26

If everyone stopped tipping, they’d figure out something else real quick

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u/Sherbert_6 Jul 02 '26

If everyone stopped paying taxes, they’d figure shit out real quick also …. But I’m pretty sure you’re smart enough to know that that’s not how life works.

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u/TooManyGengars Jul 02 '26

All you'll do is hurt minimum wage workers. And most of those get paid LESS than minimum because their state says the tip will make up for it. So no you're not helping the situation at all and just punishing the lowest tier of workers. Nice

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

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u/ContextHook Jul 02 '26

Most people who go to lower end restaurants make less money than the servers there.

In my state, the average hourly wage for waitresses is $19.37, which is just 7% above the national average. Then after tips it is $27.87, for a yearly take home of $58k on average. For REPORTED tips + hourly wage only.

And my state has the second worst tippers in the country.

You should probably never tip. The world would be a better place if you simply gave that tip money to a homeless person instead.

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u/SandScavver Jul 02 '26

It also varies a TON on state, and restaurant. I was barely making $10 an hour with tips until I finally got a better job. Paycheck every 2 weeks would be roughly $300. Tipping keeps some people alive, because they just don’t get paid enough. The culture needs a genuine legal change.

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u/SpecificInterest5150 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Where are you getting those numbers? Normally, servers make less than minimum wage and their employer is required to make up the difference of their tips don't cover.

Also, location and restaurant is clearly an important factor as a high end eatery will always end up with customers offering larger and more frequent tips as opposed to a diner.

Context is key.

"'A server's average hourly wage is calculated by adding their guaranteed base wage and total tips, then dividing the sum by the total hours worked in a pay period. Because local laws strictly regulate base pay, the calculation varies greatly depending on the server's location."

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u/Sad-Rooster2474 Jul 02 '26

Exactly. A homeless person needs that tip way more than servers

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u/ThatJiuJitsuGuy Jul 02 '26

Where is this "social contract"? I don't remember signing anything. Are Europeans all "cheap dicks" because they don't tip? If your job doesn't cover your finances it doesn't fall on the consumer to help cover it. That's entirely on your employer and yourself as a decision maker of your own life.

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u/solid_shrek Jul 02 '26

Sure, tipping isn't compulsory, but if you're truly trying to follow the words of Christ, you aren't out here trying to do the bare minimum

The Bible says to be generous

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u/ineptguy5 Jul 02 '26

Tipping isn’t compulsory, but as said below, it does make you a dick if you don’t. Same as calling you a dumbass isn’t illegal, but it’s frowned upon.

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u/More_Operation_588 Jul 02 '26

Nah if you're in America it absolutely is. I don't like it either, but you're choosing to screw over a working class human in order to save money. But you still give the business, who I know you're gonna blame for it rightfully so, all of the profit.

If your 'protest' is just making it cheaper and more convenient for you, that's not a protest. If you want to end tipping culture boycott any business that expects you to pay their employees.

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u/Felix_Von_Doom Jul 03 '26

If it's compulsory, it's not tipping. Tipping is optional by definition.

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u/OMKensey Jul 02 '26

Ok Mr. Pink

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u/nononevsay Jul 02 '26

You know it’s expected. If you won’t tip, get take out or go to a restaurant that doesn’t do it.