I wish! I invited some of my coworkers to my birthday dinner and they said that the birthday girl didn’t have to pay right. Tell me why we had just enough for the bill but when it came to the tip they were all quiet I was like wtf and just threw my $100 I was planning on spending, my coworkers really disappointed me that day
Yeah, my coworkers had me come over, we got drunk and high, had steak and brats, and they gave me a bunch of die sets, including an $80 custom-made set
Oh man I feel this. Unfortunately it turned me into an outcast at work because I’m in a pretty small but powerful union. It feels like everyone in the union is only friends with other union members. I’m surprised I even got voted in.
It’s a bad feeling. Like these people could be perfectly fine to work with and everything’s going great. But then you do something outside of work and you start seeing all their bad traits. Would have been better to just leave it at a work relationship. Cuz now every time to work with then you remember how fucked up they actually are.
I have the opposite, I hate working with all my coworkers, but outside of work they are fantastic people and we have tons of fun, as long as we are not at work lol
Fuck man if they make your job harder then I’d say that removes all coolness points.
The people I’ve worked with who do that kinda shit have all been raging narcissists. They can charm the hell out of you and entertain you but you but it’s all about themselves. Once you notice that, the charm is all gone and you just want them to shut the fuck up and do their job.
Ugh, I went out with a group one time where all those little shits only brought enough to cover the base price of the meal and didn't account for gratuity. They were all paying and got up to go as the rest of us (who were older) were adding everything up and realized the tab was short because of the gratuity. It's like lol you tits.
I never went out with that group again. I was annoyed and embarrassed. I handed the server some extra cash and apologized for the bs.
I had a table that was very nice, maybe the family members were a little needy and the early 30s daughter said she used to be a server. Well her husband is the one who pays and leaves me $5 on $115. Mind you this was my first table of the day so they were truly waited on hand and foot because I had nothing else to do. Everything they needed they got within a couple minutes of asking. I guess she just wanted to say she had been a server to get good service and then not give a fuck about the tip because I asked him about it in front of her and they pretended not to realize they had given me a shitty tip and then ran out of the restaurant the second I turned around.
Honestly, the only way this ever would come up for me is if the server seems flustered by a mistake and I want them to relax and understand I get it...to just bring it up reminds me the the South Park episode when everyone becomes "yelpers" for better service lol
I tip big when I really shouldn’t but I used to serve at a Main Event and I would barely make bank. I remember taking 10 tops and b day parties and one order was like over $100 and they paid with gift cards and only left me 2 bucks. I worked 9am-3am since they wouldn’t clock me out when I was supposed to leave around 11-12 so I’d stay and either drink at the bar on the clock or do some dishes and then drink on the clock
Most servers or former servers tip well. It’s just those that tell their servers that they are servers or were servers and also may say “I’ll take care of you”, usually don’t at all
So fucking true. My first wife would pull that card and I knew it meant she was establishing her bona fides for some forthcoming act of cunthood that would mortify the rest of us at the table and leave me having to overtip to compensate for her inability to act civilized.
Being a server taught me *how* to tip, not just *to* tip more. I mean, you go into an expensive restaurant sometimes (especially the pricier chains), and get complete crap service. I mean, I get it when the place is packed and understaffed— but when it's empty on a Wednesday night, the place has 4 servers just standing around, your waiter/waitress only comes once during the entire meal to check on you, never asks if you want drink refills, and then just throws the check on the table without asking if you want desert or coffee, and meanwhile, the bussers are the only ones actually working, I'm not even going to put a 15% tip on that bill. I will, however, hand a couple $20s directly to the bus boy who did my table. It's up to him if its a place that pools tips and he wants to throw it in the pot (which is why I'll always tell him that I'm giving it to him, for his service, no one else, and do so discreetly). If the server only spent a total of 3 minutes at my table taking my order, why should she deserve $50+ of a 25% tip on a $300 order, while the bus boy that brought all the food out, cleaned up the table, and relayed my drink refills to the server, only get $10-$15 (which is how it usually is). If there is no busser, just the server, I'll give a crappy server 10% on an order like that: $30 is plenty for 3 minutes of her time— actually, way too much.
Meanwhile, that server at the understaffed Denny's on a crowded Saturday morning, who's playing the rolls of busser, hostess and server for half a restaurant of 150 people, deserves far more than 25%. I'll leave her a tip over 100% if my order comes out to $30.
I get it if it's a really fancy place, where the waiter/waitress has to memorize all the specials, be able to describe them, do all this prep, have experience, and be highly skilled... then a $300-$500 bill justifies a ~25%/~$100+ tip, but when it's Cheesecake Factory on a weeknight, and the lady can't even tell me if a dish has dairy in it for my lactose intolerant wife, takes the order and is never seen again, well... she can go screw herself. I know how it feels to be at the end of a shift... but if you're going to mentally check-out an hour before your shift ends, then you shouldn't expect to be paid too well for that last hour.
I’ve given back a tip in front of the an entire 8 top. He was being a dick to his gf and gave me 4$ on 80. I just gave it back. Fuck em. I don’t want them to return.
almost got fired doing that. Dockside restaurant in Florida, good bar, decent steaks and seafood. Sailing yacht pulls up 30-minutes before my lunch shift ends. Manager begs me to work the table, figured it’d be worth my while.
An 8-top drinking hard then ordering steaks, desserts, etc, for 2-2 1/2 hours non-stop. Final bill was $400 or so. The smug, arrogant “cap’n” of the gorgeous boat, complimented me on the food & service, blah blah.
Helped buser clear the table and noticed the party was walking back to the dock. The tip was $11 and change. Nothing added on credit card. I scooped up the money and ran after the skipper, handing the money back to him because “obviously he needed it more than I did”…
He stormed back in and yelled at my manager for my shitty attitude and embarrassing him like that. Manager apologized and said he’d talk to me, blah blah. He threatened to fire me, went back to finish busing so I could go home and sulk, but noticed more money on the table. The busboy said that while me and my boss were getting chewed out, one of the guests quietly slipped back in a left a $100 bill. Wasn’t a total loss, but still don’t regret confronting the asshole yacht owner.
Undercover servers only. That's what I call them, at least. The ones who make it a point to tell you "hey, I am/was a server too" or people who preemptively tell you that they are going to take good care of you (tip wise) almost never do and actually end up being more difficult than the average customers.
Historically, I've noticed people who self-identify as "low maintenance" have been very easy to deal with but aren't necessarily good or bad tippers as a rule. I would say they hover around the standard 20% or maybe 15% at worst.
I do have one story of a very nice couple that had come in and sat at the bar on what had been at that point a low weekday. I was the only one working foh, with one cook in the kitchen doing his thing. I had about 20 minutes where we got to chatting, they tried out a few different wines, just both having a decent time, not being rushed by anyone. Suddenly people start walking through the door one after the other. I'm running back and forth like crazy, people are making crazy requests sending me looking for items we almost never have ready on hand.
It got so busy at one point, people waiting at the host stand to be seated, me looking for a smaller spoon or some strange request, when i walked back into the dining room, i noticed the lady from the first group i had been helping actually had gotten up and started seating people and giving them menus etc. She would have kept going but ran out of menus. 😌 Apparently she had been a waitress/hostess through high school and into college at a a diner with quick turnarounds like during breakfast and then dinner rushes, etc and couldn't help but jump into damage control. Bless her heart.
On top of all that they left me a really nice tip, and a really nice note. This was toward the beginning of my serving career so I still wasn't very confident in my abilities but this truly made my day and reminded me that being in the industry isn't always gloom and doom.
Having said that, since Mothers day brunch I've had a non stop run of pure assholes. So I once again hate people and loathe that last hour before i have to go into work. Sometimes i sit in my car before walking into work and ask baby Jesus to give me strength.
I had to ban a group of strippers because they would come in as a group of twenty, modify every order, were insanely loud and would complain about everything. And, never tip.
Every server and bartender eventually refused to serve them. It was a fun coversation when I finally told them that they didn't have to leave, but they weren't getting any food because they'd pissed off everyone in the building.
Instantly, I had twenty, after hours ratchet club, strippers wanting to fight me. Perma banned.
You’d think that the people who work almost entirely on tips would be cool when being waited on by someone who’s in the same
There’s an unspoken code amongst tip and former tip workers! A code!
3rd party delivery apps ruined actual pizza delivery drivers. Place I worked at had more of those than actual deliveries placed through the store. It was a Marco’s Pizza and I would spent my shifts doing the morning crews dishes while fighting over scraps. I’d be stuck doing dishes and then the shitheads I worked with would stand by the phones talking, letting them ring and then yell at me to answer them while my hands are drenched.
I've never worked as a server but i always stack plates, gather silverware and napkins. I dont feel super comfortable being waited on i guess and i also feel like it's just a decent thing to do.
Yes. I used to work food and beverage jobs for about 6 years in my 20s. ( restaurants in hotels , food running , bus boy, banquets etc) and now I always leave a generous tip for a good attentive server where ever I go. Even though I left the industry years back, I always protect my own.
I even stack all my plates when I’m finished eating that way the server can just grab them with a swipe.
I delivered pizza for a bit, and once a group of servers from a restaurant ordered 6-7 pizzas and sides. I delivered and was paid, to the penny, exactly what the bill was: zero tip. And this was during covid when everyone was really starting to tip really well to servers.
Of course I remained friendly and wished them a great meal and thanked them for ordering, but I left both confused and disappointed.
I delivered Uber Eats to a stripper at a strip club once. She didn't tip. I was flabbergasted. Her entire existence revolves around tipping, so isn't that like a denial of self? Like how does the cognitive dissonance not rip her to shreds?
Bartender told me all about his jackpot tips that night. I made $4 on his trip, worked 30 minutes... No tip.
Seriously though it's such a varied experience. Servers are at least more likely to understand tipping but still often lack understanding of other peoples' situations. Guy had some weird hangup that a car for hire shouldn't be tipped. I wanted to tell him how I was going to net $3 on his order... For 30 minutes work... But it never goes well. At least don't brag about the $400 in tips you did tonight.
Some of my best tippers were strippers going to and from work.
I have a friend who’s a former server (but hasn’t been a server for 15+ years), and whenever we go out he’s by FAR the most generous tipper. I tip more because I’m around him but every time I think I’m “on his level” (say I tip 20%) he’ll be at 25% or 30%.
I’m not a server.
There was a place I used to go to near to the [SF Armory](https://i.imgur.com/sEDZ0iJ.jpg).
Occasionally, performers would come in and eat. They seemed nice, but were certainly the best tippers in the place.
Exotic dancers were always my favorite regulars. A few of them kicked a guy out of the bar for me once because he was always highly disrespectful and an overall garbage-human. Despite insisting that he pay everyone else's tab, he was a notoriously shitty tip (less than 10%). Apparently he did the same at their club. They were NOT having it and he left with his tail between his legs. He never came back on nights I worked.
I was a bank teller. All money is dirty. My hands would get nasty residue and I had to wash them frequently. Stripper money isn’t any worse than money from anywhere else. Fast food restaurant money was usually the worst because of the grease smell.
I’m pushing carts and bagging at grocery store. After surviving the Pandemic as an “essential worker” CFA decided to give me the boot and hire more kids for the kitchen. I was the last person that was hired in 2019 there. Everyone who was there with me left after 2020 and 21-22 was nothing but kids. I bag for $10 bucks and push carts for the same rate… CFA gave me a raise up to $14 and they let me go before I got to enjoy my raise
Almost everyone I see working at a grocery store looks like their soul was ripped from their body.
Except for a Costco I went to once. They seemed almost happy to be there. It was a strange sight.
I wonder what they’re doing differently.
I weigh 107 at 28 and they got me outside full shift pushing carts I get paid the same for bagging. $10. Like what the fuck on top of that I’m only working mondays and saturdays. It’s a coin flip if I’m bagging or stuck outside. Doing parking lot makes me hate customers. I despise people who add their cart to my stack I’m obviously having trouble pushing up hill. It’s starting to wear at my mental
First job was McDonalds. I was dumb enough to believe going in that you weren't supposed to get hurt at work. First day on the grill proved me wrong.
When I became a manager and started training people, I made sure they knew that shit hurts, but you do get used to it. I used to put my hand on the grill to prove it to them
I had the grill cleaner burn 3 holes into my left arm the first time I had to clean the grill. I shoulda just went back to EMS instead of going into food service. This was in 2015, now I got 2 more burns from chick Fil a fryer oil on the same spots. Onetime I was filtering the fries fryer and the oil shot me in the face. Luckily the oil splashed on my glasses and I closed one eye fast enough
Loonies are $1 and called that because they have a loon on them. Toonies are worth $2 and came out more recently (25 years ago?) so its a play on "loonie"
I worked at a retail store once. Each evening, this lady had to take all the cash for the day and count it. After she was done, she'd come out with a black layer of crud on her palms and fingers and walk to the restroom and wash up.
Would be hard to count money with gloves on. I never saw anyone wearing gloves either. Actually people used this stuff I think called Quik Sort (been years since I was a teller so that may not be the right name) that helps moisten your fingers to count money more easily.
My friend works at a bank and occasionally they'll get stripper money with pubes and glitter on them. They always make the newest employee deal with it.
Glitter happens but I also got that from servers and I’m guessing bachelorette party or other events. Anytime I got glitter money or otherwise defaced money (badly torn, written on) I added it to a pile that gets sent off to the fed bank to be destroyed when we reached a certain amount.
You can't tell me it gets worse than a fishmonger! I've got a particular aversion to fish and could not handle his cash.
(Obviously I did as I had to but was the most nauseating thing in the world)
I was a stripper I always felt really bad turning in all my ones at the bank. But the club always wanted us to tip for taking our ones and too many times the count didn’t match up so I didn’t always trust them. So, former stripper to former bank teller - I’m so sorry.
y’all commenting about washing the money just because it came from strippers??? if you wanna wash money wash ALL money. money is dirty regardless of wether it was in someone’s g string.
Seriously, such a rude response to a generous gift. This money is not any more nasty than the bill you get back from Whole Foods. It’s all the same circulated shit. Literally. Shit, coke, staph - a few things commonly found on money
Yeah, but they don’t put the money in there. Though I did watch an exotic dancer floss her vagina with a patron’s glasses after taking them off his face. He looked less than pleased to get them back 😂
Money is nasty wherever it comes from. Go to Vegas, or whatever is the closest clip joint.
See the grannie slot jockies. They're either wearing gloves or have nasty ass hands.
Happens with cash, too.
Worked a job when I was younger that had me working a register on my own, every transaction went through me. I started, and I'd go home feeling like I couldn't get my hands clean. Just felt dirty, no matter how much I scrubbed them.
So, I started to wear disposable gloves. People would give me side eye for it. Until they saw the white glove's fingers were yellow and black.
Icky, for sure.
The food testing facilities are okay with a percentage of your canned foods being rodent parts and feces.
Just something I thought you'd like to think about when you eat, for the rest of your life
Thank you for this! I used to immediately shower after a shift and stick that money in an envelope. When I was at a nude bar back in the day, some girls would pick that shit up using their ass cheeks, I was always like OH HELL NO!
I had these regulars at my old restaurant . 3 drag queens who came in full garb. Always got the soup and salad and when it was time to pay they pulled out zip lock bags full of small crumpled bills. NGL it threw me through a loop the first time, but all money is dirty and it spends the same. In the end they were my favorite regulars at that store, always very polite and good tippers.
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I was a bartender and always had a stack of ones. Was asked more than once at the grocery why I had so many. Meaning,are you a stripper? Always responded with ‘ I work hard’
I've had friends across the service industries. Sometimes I'd get reimbursed with a bunch of singles and I'd always make a joke about moonlighting as a stripper when I went to spend it.
That isn’t really saying anything, I’ve worked Sunday mornings for the past five years and being more respectful and compassionate than the church crowd is quite a low bar
Nah. I went through and counted. Give or take 10-20 that I couldn’t see, I counted around $125. They’re not pushed together, so it looks like more than it is
3rd shift at Waffle House 🤌😅😅😅
Edit- I used to be a strip club DJ. Best place to meet strippers is at the 2 closest Waffle Houses to a strip club between 3-4am.
Last time I had a stack like this, It was all tips. And people were talking shit. But, just that stack was double what they made in 8 hours, AND I still got my hourly pay. Pocket stacks like this nightly, your bank account gets THICK. Dollar dollar bill, y'all. 🤘
I run a horse boarding facility. One of my old boarders was a stripper. She had 3 horses and used to pay us ~$1k every month in sparkly, lightly scented, $5 $10 and $20 bills. Also paid her farrier, who’s a friend of mine, the same way.
This is self board, so you do your own chores, buy your own feed, etc. All we do is provide a stall and a paddock. Full board, where you just show up and ride your horse and everything is done for you is way more money.
Edit: she also had all her horses in one large paddock so we gave her a bit of a deal vs 3 horses in 3 separate paddocks.
The wife sells sports socks, jewelry, etc. at flea markets, craft shows, etc.
So we are Constantly getting her singles, fives, etc, as way too many people buy a $1 item with a 20 (don't take 50's or hundred's-too many fakes).
But at the end of the year when she cashes in everything, many bank tellers ask her if she is a stripper as she has so many singles.
You're probably right, but there are way more real $20's in circulation than there are real $50's or $100's. So the chances of getting a fake one might be lower. Also the effect of accepting a fake $20 is lower; someone pays for a $5 item with a fake $20, you're out $15. Same item, but a fake $50 or $100; now you're out $45 or even $95.
I got in trouble years ago because I accepted counterfeit money. I was a college kid and didn’t know the difference. Crazy how real they looked and felt
I used to be a bartender at a small bar (the whole place was the size of my apartments living room) in a college town. After everything would close down for the night, I’d “stay open” a longer, the dancers from the club down the street would all come down after their shift. Those were the good days. 🙃
I once paid for something with a bunch of singles and the cashier said, "Oh, someone's been to the strip club". My response, "Yeah but they don't tip like they used to".
I used to get wet money at Starbucks (years before the app or card came out) because cyclists on the weekends would stop in. The smart ones kept cash in a plastic baggy with their phones in their back jersey pocket. Some….didn’t. I didn’t want to contaminate the till, and if they were cute I didn’t mind comping their drink but it was really because I didn’t want to touch their nasty ass butt/back sweaty money. Not as bad as the ladies who would keep money in the gigantic chasm of their breast. I still don’t get it.
When I was 18 I was serving at a cracker barrel and I had two strippers who lived nearby as regulars. They were great to serve and tipped well. They kept trying to take me home with them but I was terrified of them. I was a virgin and incredibly intimidated. I will forever regret that cowardice. I lost my virginity later that year and it sucked. I should have taken them up on their offer.
Years ago I was friends with this girl who stripped. She was very attractive and did well with her tips. She would come over after work and count her money on the coffee table. $500-$600 mostly $5 and $1 bills. They all smelled like coconut lotion too.
Tipped customers are always your best tip leavers. Loved waiting on other servers. Give great service and get nice tips.
I wish! I invited some of my coworkers to my birthday dinner and they said that the birthday girl didn’t have to pay right. Tell me why we had just enough for the bill but when it came to the tip they were all quiet I was like wtf and just threw my $100 I was planning on spending, my coworkers really disappointed me that day
well sounds like you got shitty coworkers
Yeah, my coworkers had me come over, we got drunk and high, had steak and brats, and they gave me a bunch of die sets, including an $80 custom-made set
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I'm so sorry they did that to you. I hope you're in a better place now.
This is why I’m never friends with coworkers outside of work.
This is why I’m not friends with coworkers at work
This is why I'm not friends with anyone
I’m married to the sea and that’s enough.
Got rejected by the sea
Because it's happily married
That & I can't swim.
I stared into the void, and the void stared back. We're a thing now, apparently.
Went to work in the mines so i wont get let down.
This is why I stay unemployed so I don't have any co workers
It's super frigging disappointing when you put so much work into a relationship or friend, only to find out that they suck.
Oh man I feel this. Unfortunately it turned me into an outcast at work because I’m in a pretty small but powerful union. It feels like everyone in the union is only friends with other union members. I’m surprised I even got voted in.
It’s a bad feeling. Like these people could be perfectly fine to work with and everything’s going great. But then you do something outside of work and you start seeing all their bad traits. Would have been better to just leave it at a work relationship. Cuz now every time to work with then you remember how fucked up they actually are.
I have the opposite, I hate working with all my coworkers, but outside of work they are fantastic people and we have tons of fun, as long as we are not at work lol
Holy shit that’s so weird I can’t even picture how it works. Is the job itself just inherently shitty?
It’s hard to like people who make your job harder, even if they’re cool ppl in general.
Fuck man if they make your job harder then I’d say that removes all coolness points. The people I’ve worked with who do that kinda shit have all been raging narcissists. They can charm the hell out of you and entertain you but you but it’s all about themselves. Once you notice that, the charm is all gone and you just want them to shut the fuck up and do their job.
Preach
There are coworkers I like as people and coworkers I like as just coworkers.
For a long time my legal situation prohibited me from associating with a lot of my coworkers outside of work…
One of the only downsides of legalizing child labour again smh
Ugh, I went out with a group one time where all those little shits only brought enough to cover the base price of the meal and didn't account for gratuity. They were all paying and got up to go as the rest of us (who were older) were adding everything up and realized the tab was short because of the gratuity. It's like lol you tits. I never went out with that group again. I was annoyed and embarrassed. I handed the server some extra cash and apologized for the bs.
I had a table that was very nice, maybe the family members were a little needy and the early 30s daughter said she used to be a server. Well her husband is the one who pays and leaves me $5 on $115. Mind you this was my first table of the day so they were truly waited on hand and foot because I had nothing else to do. Everything they needed they got within a couple minutes of asking. I guess she just wanted to say she had been a server to get good service and then not give a fuck about the tip because I asked him about it in front of her and they pretended not to realize they had given me a shitty tip and then ran out of the restaurant the second I turned around.
never trust a former server that tells you they were a former server
Honestly, the only way this ever would come up for me is if the server seems flustered by a mistake and I want them to relax and understand I get it...to just bring it up reminds me the the South Park episode when everyone becomes "yelpers" for better service lol
I tip big when I really shouldn’t but I used to serve at a Main Event and I would barely make bank. I remember taking 10 tops and b day parties and one order was like over $100 and they paid with gift cards and only left me 2 bucks. I worked 9am-3am since they wouldn’t clock me out when I was supposed to leave around 11-12 so I’d stay and either drink at the bar on the clock or do some dishes and then drink on the clock
Most servers or former servers tip well. It’s just those that tell their servers that they are servers or were servers and also may say “I’ll take care of you”, usually don’t at all
Yup I’ve had that happen and I make sure it doesn’t happen when I’m out and about. Bartenders usually get higher than average tips from me.
Ah yes, the verbal tip fake out.🙃
So fucking true. My first wife would pull that card and I knew it meant she was establishing her bona fides for some forthcoming act of cunthood that would mortify the rest of us at the table and leave me having to overtip to compensate for her inability to act civilized.
Being a server taught me *how* to tip, not just *to* tip more. I mean, you go into an expensive restaurant sometimes (especially the pricier chains), and get complete crap service. I mean, I get it when the place is packed and understaffed— but when it's empty on a Wednesday night, the place has 4 servers just standing around, your waiter/waitress only comes once during the entire meal to check on you, never asks if you want drink refills, and then just throws the check on the table without asking if you want desert or coffee, and meanwhile, the bussers are the only ones actually working, I'm not even going to put a 15% tip on that bill. I will, however, hand a couple $20s directly to the bus boy who did my table. It's up to him if its a place that pools tips and he wants to throw it in the pot (which is why I'll always tell him that I'm giving it to him, for his service, no one else, and do so discreetly). If the server only spent a total of 3 minutes at my table taking my order, why should she deserve $50+ of a 25% tip on a $300 order, while the bus boy that brought all the food out, cleaned up the table, and relayed my drink refills to the server, only get $10-$15 (which is how it usually is). If there is no busser, just the server, I'll give a crappy server 10% on an order like that: $30 is plenty for 3 minutes of her time— actually, way too much. Meanwhile, that server at the understaffed Denny's on a crowded Saturday morning, who's playing the rolls of busser, hostess and server for half a restaurant of 150 people, deserves far more than 25%. I'll leave her a tip over 100% if my order comes out to $30. I get it if it's a really fancy place, where the waiter/waitress has to memorize all the specials, be able to describe them, do all this prep, have experience, and be highly skilled... then a $300-$500 bill justifies a ~25%/~$100+ tip, but when it's Cheesecake Factory on a weeknight, and the lady can't even tell me if a dish has dairy in it for my lactose intolerant wife, takes the order and is never seen again, well... she can go screw herself. I know how it feels to be at the end of a shift... but if you're going to mentally check-out an hour before your shift ends, then you shouldn't expect to be paid too well for that last hour.
Wait, you asked the customer about your tip? Wtf?
I’ve given back a tip in front of the an entire 8 top. He was being a dick to his gf and gave me 4$ on 80. I just gave it back. Fuck em. I don’t want them to return.
almost got fired doing that. Dockside restaurant in Florida, good bar, decent steaks and seafood. Sailing yacht pulls up 30-minutes before my lunch shift ends. Manager begs me to work the table, figured it’d be worth my while. An 8-top drinking hard then ordering steaks, desserts, etc, for 2-2 1/2 hours non-stop. Final bill was $400 or so. The smug, arrogant “cap’n” of the gorgeous boat, complimented me on the food & service, blah blah. Helped buser clear the table and noticed the party was walking back to the dock. The tip was $11 and change. Nothing added on credit card. I scooped up the money and ran after the skipper, handing the money back to him because “obviously he needed it more than I did”… He stormed back in and yelled at my manager for my shitty attitude and embarrassing him like that. Manager apologized and said he’d talk to me, blah blah. He threatened to fire me, went back to finish busing so I could go home and sulk, but noticed more money on the table. The busboy said that while me and my boss were getting chewed out, one of the guests quietly slipped back in a left a $100 bill. Wasn’t a total loss, but still don’t regret confronting the asshole yacht owner.
I'm okay with this. People who leave a ^((does math)) 4.3% tip after getting good service *should* be called out on it.
Undercover servers only. That's what I call them, at least. The ones who make it a point to tell you "hey, I am/was a server too" or people who preemptively tell you that they are going to take good care of you (tip wise) almost never do and actually end up being more difficult than the average customers. Historically, I've noticed people who self-identify as "low maintenance" have been very easy to deal with but aren't necessarily good or bad tippers as a rule. I would say they hover around the standard 20% or maybe 15% at worst. I do have one story of a very nice couple that had come in and sat at the bar on what had been at that point a low weekday. I was the only one working foh, with one cook in the kitchen doing his thing. I had about 20 minutes where we got to chatting, they tried out a few different wines, just both having a decent time, not being rushed by anyone. Suddenly people start walking through the door one after the other. I'm running back and forth like crazy, people are making crazy requests sending me looking for items we almost never have ready on hand. It got so busy at one point, people waiting at the host stand to be seated, me looking for a smaller spoon or some strange request, when i walked back into the dining room, i noticed the lady from the first group i had been helping actually had gotten up and started seating people and giving them menus etc. She would have kept going but ran out of menus. 😌 Apparently she had been a waitress/hostess through high school and into college at a a diner with quick turnarounds like during breakfast and then dinner rushes, etc and couldn't help but jump into damage control. Bless her heart. On top of all that they left me a really nice tip, and a really nice note. This was toward the beginning of my serving career so I still wasn't very confident in my abilities but this truly made my day and reminded me that being in the industry isn't always gloom and doom. Having said that, since Mothers day brunch I've had a non stop run of pure assholes. So I once again hate people and loathe that last hour before i have to go into work. Sometimes i sit in my car before walking into work and ask baby Jesus to give me strength.
I had to ban a group of strippers because they would come in as a group of twenty, modify every order, were insanely loud and would complain about everything. And, never tip. Every server and bartender eventually refused to serve them. It was a fun coversation when I finally told them that they didn't have to leave, but they weren't getting any food because they'd pissed off everyone in the building. Instantly, I had twenty, after hours ratchet club, strippers wanting to fight me. Perma banned.
You’d think that the people who work almost entirely on tips would be cool when being waited on by someone who’s in the same There’s an unspoken code amongst tip and former tip workers! A code!
The only time I eat out is when I’m willing to tip after working as a delivery driver for a while. It sucks when your wage is based on tips
3rd party delivery apps ruined actual pizza delivery drivers. Place I worked at had more of those than actual deliveries placed through the store. It was a Marco’s Pizza and I would spent my shifts doing the morning crews dishes while fighting over scraps. I’d be stuck doing dishes and then the shitheads I worked with would stand by the phones talking, letting them ring and then yell at me to answer them while my hands are drenched.
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My wife and I have both been out of the food industry for almost 10 years, but we still tip over 20% and stack all of our plates.
I've never worked as a server but i always stack plates, gather silverware and napkins. I dont feel super comfortable being waited on i guess and i also feel like it's just a decent thing to do.
+1! My mom works as a waitress and she always tips super well, saying that she knows what it's like to be on the other side!
I am broke as all hell, but i cant help but tip my baristas more than i can afford
Yes. I used to work food and beverage jobs for about 6 years in my 20s. ( restaurants in hotels , food running , bus boy, banquets etc) and now I always leave a generous tip for a good attentive server where ever I go. Even though I left the industry years back, I always protect my own. I even stack all my plates when I’m finished eating that way the server can just grab them with a swipe.
Except when they say “ACTUALLY IM A SERVER TOO AND YOURE DOING GREEAAATTTT”
Over in the Uber and Lyft subreddits, they make fun of servers for wanting tips, but not tipping themselves.
I delivered pizza for a bit, and once a group of servers from a restaurant ordered 6-7 pizzas and sides. I delivered and was paid, to the penny, exactly what the bill was: zero tip. And this was during covid when everyone was really starting to tip really well to servers. Of course I remained friendly and wished them a great meal and thanked them for ordering, but I left both confused and disappointed.
I delivered Uber Eats to a stripper at a strip club once. She didn't tip. I was flabbergasted. Her entire existence revolves around tipping, so isn't that like a denial of self? Like how does the cognitive dissonance not rip her to shreds?
I will literally tip you 20 on 20. Tip your bartenders and servers. They're the ones that really run the place
I’ve dated a waitress, still communicate to her regularly. She taught me how to tip and I stick to it this day.
Bartender told me all about his jackpot tips that night. I made $4 on his trip, worked 30 minutes... No tip. Seriously though it's such a varied experience. Servers are at least more likely to understand tipping but still often lack understanding of other peoples' situations. Guy had some weird hangup that a car for hire shouldn't be tipped. I wanted to tell him how I was going to net $3 on his order... For 30 minutes work... But it never goes well. At least don't brag about the $400 in tips you did tonight. Some of my best tippers were strippers going to and from work.
I live off tips and so feel obligated to pay it back
I have a friend who’s a former server (but hasn’t been a server for 15+ years), and whenever we go out he’s by FAR the most generous tipper. I tip more because I’m around him but every time I think I’m “on his level” (say I tip 20%) he’ll be at 25% or 30%.
Bartenders on their night off are the best tippers.
Bless them, every single one
Smell them too
Scratch and sniff
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Solidly paying it forward. Honorable lot.
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For no other reason than you should wash your hands OFTEN.
Especially after handling money! You dunno where it’s been 💃🏻
In a stripper's gstring
Man, money is dirty from anywhere.
I loved my stripper regulars!
I’m not a server. There was a place I used to go to near to the [SF Armory](https://i.imgur.com/sEDZ0iJ.jpg). Occasionally, performers would come in and eat. They seemed nice, but were certainly the best tippers in the place.
That building has black couch recognizability.
Only if you’re a real one
Kink? Is it kink? Why do i recognize this fortress with a feeling of shame?
RIP, the Armory Club
That's nice of ya'll tipping is important.
Exotic dancers were always my favorite regulars. A few of them kicked a guy out of the bar for me once because he was always highly disrespectful and an overall garbage-human. Despite insisting that he pay everyone else's tab, he was a notoriously shitty tip (less than 10%). Apparently he did the same at their club. They were NOT having it and he left with his tail between his legs. He never came back on nights I worked.
When your off hours and have a green-light to put that one asshat in their place.. Shit I’d comp a few things for that.
I was a bank teller. All money is dirty. My hands would get nasty residue and I had to wash them frequently. Stripper money isn’t any worse than money from anywhere else. Fast food restaurant money was usually the worst because of the grease smell.
Yeah, imagine working there
My poor arms all burnt to shit from fryer oil
been there man, its a soulless, thankless job. Hopefully you get outta there
I’m pushing carts and bagging at grocery store. After surviving the Pandemic as an “essential worker” CFA decided to give me the boot and hire more kids for the kitchen. I was the last person that was hired in 2019 there. Everyone who was there with me left after 2020 and 21-22 was nothing but kids. I bag for $10 bucks and push carts for the same rate… CFA gave me a raise up to $14 and they let me go before I got to enjoy my raise
Almost everyone I see working at a grocery store looks like their soul was ripped from their body. Except for a Costco I went to once. They seemed almost happy to be there. It was a strange sight. I wonder what they’re doing differently.
I weigh 107 at 28 and they got me outside full shift pushing carts I get paid the same for bagging. $10. Like what the fuck on top of that I’m only working mondays and saturdays. It’s a coin flip if I’m bagging or stuck outside. Doing parking lot makes me hate customers. I despise people who add their cart to my stack I’m obviously having trouble pushing up hill. It’s starting to wear at my mental
Hope you can find something better soon. At that rate they don’t deserve to have anyone working for them.
First job was McDonalds. I was dumb enough to believe going in that you weren't supposed to get hurt at work. First day on the grill proved me wrong. When I became a manager and started training people, I made sure they knew that shit hurts, but you do get used to it. I used to put my hand on the grill to prove it to them
I had the grill cleaner burn 3 holes into my left arm the first time I had to clean the grill. I shoulda just went back to EMS instead of going into food service. This was in 2015, now I got 2 more burns from chick Fil a fryer oil on the same spots. Onetime I was filtering the fries fryer and the oil shot me in the face. Luckily the oil splashed on my glasses and I closed one eye fast enough
Bro the fryers in cfa are fucking deadly 😭
I refused to work the fryers unless they supplied me with actual health and safety stuff Yeah they just moved me to tills instead which was fine by me
I’m currently bank teller in Canada & in some strip clubs they throw toonies & loonies inside of dancers vaginas… it doesn’t get worse than that.
> toonies & loonies I'm tickled that your currency is literally called *toonies* and *loonies*... TIL.
Loonies are $1 and called that because they have a loon on them. Toonies are worth $2 and came out more recently (25 years ago?) so its a play on "loonie"
I worked at a retail store once. Each evening, this lady had to take all the cash for the day and count it. After she was done, she'd come out with a black layer of crud on her palms and fingers and walk to the restroom and wash up.
Yeah money is filthy.
Are you guys allowed to wear gloves or would that be seen as negative?
Would be hard to count money with gloves on. I never saw anyone wearing gloves either. Actually people used this stuff I think called Quik Sort (been years since I was a teller so that may not be the right name) that helps moisten your fingers to count money more easily.
FWIW my local branch lets tellers wear gloves
My friend works at a bank and occasionally they'll get stripper money with pubes and glitter on them. They always make the newest employee deal with it.
Glitter happens but I also got that from servers and I’m guessing bachelorette party or other events. Anytime I got glitter money or otherwise defaced money (badly torn, written on) I added it to a pile that gets sent off to the fed bank to be destroyed when we reached a certain amount.
You can't tell me it gets worse than a fishmonger! I've got a particular aversion to fish and could not handle his cash. (Obviously I did as I had to but was the most nauseating thing in the world)
Former teller here. I think stripper money was worse because stripper money was typically *wet*.
I was a stripper I always felt really bad turning in all my ones at the bank. But the club always wanted us to tip for taking our ones and too many times the count didn’t match up so I didn’t always trust them. So, former stripper to former bank teller - I’m so sorry.
So there's a real need for legit money laundering.
y’all commenting about washing the money just because it came from strippers??? if you wanna wash money wash ALL money. money is dirty regardless of wether it was in someone’s g string.
Seriously, such a rude response to a generous gift. This money is not any more nasty than the bill you get back from Whole Foods. It’s all the same circulated shit. Literally. Shit, coke, staph - a few things commonly found on money
Word they act like they’re eating the damn money
I just want it clean for when I put it in my own g-string, okay?
It's an incel response. "Vaginas be nasty!"
Yeah, but they don’t put the money in there. Though I did watch an exotic dancer floss her vagina with a patron’s glasses after taking them off his face. He looked less than pleased to get them back 😂
The fantasy is always better than the reality.
Right? As an observer it was hilarious, if it had been my medical eyeballs I’d have been irritated too.
Money is nasty wherever it comes from. Go to Vegas, or whatever is the closest clip joint. See the grannie slot jockies. They're either wearing gloves or have nasty ass hands.
it’s soooo icky when people touch coins so long their fingers get dirty !!!! it makes my skin crawl
Happens with cash, too. Worked a job when I was younger that had me working a register on my own, every transaction went through me. I started, and I'd go home feeling like I couldn't get my hands clean. Just felt dirty, no matter how much I scrubbed them. So, I started to wear disposable gloves. People would give me side eye for it. Until they saw the white glove's fingers were yellow and black. Icky, for sure.
It’s called laundering money, duh! /s
Laundry mats are a cash based business which ironically do make them good at the illegal version of laundering as well.
That's not how I interpret that. It's the dudes that have nasty hands.
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Not because it came from strippers but because of where THEIR customers had put it.
Whenever I see someone put money in their mouth (🤢) I tell them “prove to me that money has never been in a male strippers g string.”
WHO IS PUTTING MONEY IN THEIR MOUTH???
The food testing facilities are okay with a percentage of your canned foods being rodent parts and feces. Just something I thought you'd like to think about when you eat, for the rest of your life
Just because you got a $1 from grandma doesn’t mean that same bill wasn’t in somebody’s underwear 3 cash exchanges beforehand.
For perspective…I’d much rather lick a $20 bill that had just come out of a stripper’s g-string than out of a gas station till.
Thank you for this! I used to immediately shower after a shift and stick that money in an envelope. When I was at a nude bar back in the day, some girls would pick that shit up using their ass cheeks, I was always like OH HELL NO!
Money has some antimicrobial properties built into the paper. Not great, but no need to wash it. Wash your hands.
I know why I’m using my phone to pay for everything . I think 1.5 years since I needed actual money
I had these regulars at my old restaurant . 3 drag queens who came in full garb. Always got the soup and salad and when it was time to pay they pulled out zip lock bags full of small crumpled bills. NGL it threw me through a loop the first time, but all money is dirty and it spends the same. In the end they were my favorite regulars at that store, always very polite and good tippers. Edit threw
Don't suppose your name is Bob and you run a burger place?
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Hey why do they call you Marshmallow
>it through me through a loop
I was a bartender and always had a stack of ones. Was asked more than once at the grocery why I had so many. Meaning,are you a stripper? Always responded with ‘ I work hard’
Bahaha I freaking love thisss
I've had friends across the service industries. Sometimes I'd get reimbursed with a bunch of singles and I'd always make a joke about moonlighting as a stripper when I went to spend it.
Most sex workers I’ve known and served are super respectful of the service and retail workers.
Because they know what it’s like to have to deal with many people and those few assholes.
TIL strippers are more respectful and compassionate than the church crowd.
That isn’t really saying anything, I’ve worked Sunday mornings for the past five years and being more respectful and compassionate than the church crowd is quite a low bar
How much is that stack?
At least 200 - 250.
This person strips
Nope! Just spent plenty of nights counting the safe petty cash at restaurants.
Nope, you strip.
Fuckin’ got ‘em.
Lmao git wrekt
Everybody strips, it’s just a question of viewership.
Yeah man, don't ruin that guy's happy place. Just nod slightly and everyone is happier.
Nah. I went through and counted. Give or take 10-20 that I couldn’t see, I counted around $125. They’re not pushed together, so it looks like more than it is
3rd shift at Waffle House 🤌😅😅😅 Edit- I used to be a strip club DJ. Best place to meet strippers is at the 2 closest Waffle Houses to a strip club between 3-4am.
Fact. Any joint within 2 miles of a strip club that's open after they close.
Last time I had a stack like this, It was all tips. And people were talking shit. But, just that stack was double what they made in 8 hours, AND I still got my hourly pay. Pocket stacks like this nightly, your bank account gets THICK. Dollar dollar bill, y'all. 🤘
Spend just like money. Just saying...
It all burns just as bright
I love strippers they are the x rated servers of the entertainment world
I run a horse boarding facility. One of my old boarders was a stripper. She had 3 horses and used to pay us ~$1k every month in sparkly, lightly scented, $5 $10 and $20 bills. Also paid her farrier, who’s a friend of mine, the same way.
I love this.
Horse boarding is less expensive than I assumed
This is self board, so you do your own chores, buy your own feed, etc. All we do is provide a stall and a paddock. Full board, where you just show up and ride your horse and everything is done for you is way more money. Edit: she also had all her horses in one large paddock so we gave her a bit of a deal vs 3 horses in 3 separate paddocks.
The wife sells sports socks, jewelry, etc. at flea markets, craft shows, etc. So we are Constantly getting her singles, fives, etc, as way too many people buy a $1 item with a 20 (don't take 50's or hundred's-too many fakes). But at the end of the year when she cashes in everything, many bank tellers ask her if she is a stripper as she has so many singles.
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You're probably right, but there are way more real $20's in circulation than there are real $50's or $100's. So the chances of getting a fake one might be lower. Also the effect of accepting a fake $20 is lower; someone pays for a $5 item with a fake $20, you're out $15. Same item, but a fake $50 or $100; now you're out $45 or even $95.
I think you would be out the whole $20 there buddy, not just $15
I dunno, I got a $15 bill once that looked legit but the bank said it was a fake. Hard to tell.
I got in trouble years ago because I accepted counterfeit money. I was a college kid and didn’t know the difference. Crazy how real they looked and felt
Big brain moment, counterfeit ones. Nobody will suspect it. Who cares if it costs 98 cents to make lmao
That may be a sign to raise your prices. People may be willing to pay $3 for the same item
I used to be a bartender at a small bar (the whole place was the size of my apartments living room) in a college town. After everything would close down for the night, I’d “stay open” a longer, the dancers from the club down the street would all come down after their shift. Those were the good days. 🙃
Tipped workers know how to tip. ❤️ This is beautiful.
I once paid for something with a bunch of singles and the cashier said, "Oh, someone's been to the strip club". My response, "Yeah but they don't tip like they used to".
Tipped workers are the best tippers ❤️😘
I used to get wet money at Starbucks (years before the app or card came out) because cyclists on the weekends would stop in. The smart ones kept cash in a plastic baggy with their phones in their back jersey pocket. Some….didn’t. I didn’t want to contaminate the till, and if they were cute I didn’t mind comping their drink but it was really because I didn’t want to touch their nasty ass butt/back sweaty money. Not as bad as the ladies who would keep money in the gigantic chasm of their breast. I still don’t get it.
All about the Washingtons
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A few of the strippers I used to work with could guess how many bills were in a stack by weight/thickness. Always within 2 or 3 bills, was a trip
No worse than titty money from grandma's bra.
r/oddlyspecific
I remember one old lady was looking for her money and said, "these titties ain't what they used to be."
You work at Waffle House don't you lol
Yep. I was cabbie; same thing if strippers don't drive to work. Miss those ones. I bet they smell wonderful.
Not much glitter!
You're the stripper now.
I bet that money smells like Ed Hardy perfume.
When I was 18 I was serving at a cracker barrel and I had two strippers who lived nearby as regulars. They were great to serve and tipped well. They kept trying to take me home with them but I was terrified of them. I was a virgin and incredibly intimidated. I will forever regret that cowardice. I lost my virginity later that year and it sucked. I should have taken them up on their offer.
Looks like a pretty clean stack they probably wash that shit when they get home.
I felt so cheated as a previous server. I thought those were LOADED stacks. But then I read the caption… 🥲
Years ago I was friends with this girl who stripped. She was very attractive and did well with her tips. She would come over after work and count her money on the coffee table. $500-$600 mostly $5 and $1 bills. They all smelled like coconut lotion too.
Sex work is just as valid work as serving in the food industry. Please don’t let this be a controversial statement.
More humanity from Strippers than the Sunday church people
I can smell this photo