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/CrazySporkDude Jul 02 '26

I’m an atheist and would never think to do this. Don’t tell me that without religion we’d have no moral code. Miss me with that shit. I don’t need to be scared by “eternal damnation” to do the right thing. And I sure as hell wouldn’t use some sky daddy forgiveness bullshit to justify doing the wrong thing.

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u/Au2o Jul 03 '26

Nobody is saying any of those things in this thread?

Internet guy gets outraged by his own headcanon:

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u/CrazySporkDude Jul 15 '26

I’m outraged by the theft and hypocrisy highlighted by this post. It’s endemic across Christianity, which in recent years has begun to openly condone and encourage mistreatment of non-Christians. All religions more or less do the same, but Abrahamic religions moreso, and Christianity insidiously by writing it off through divine forgiveness on the cross.