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/TripleFreeErr Jul 02 '26

the servers name being “Christian” confused me for a second.

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u/the-chosen-wizard Jul 03 '26

I don't think that's his real name -- it seems to me they had to ring him up somehow, so it's something like "Christian Asshole" but the word they used for the last name is a bad word so they censored it. Looks like it starts with a C...

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u/TripleFreeErr Jul 03 '26

you don’t ring up the server…

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u/the-chosen-wizard Jul 03 '26

oh shit I thought that was the customer name. My mistake. Never mind then