30 Service Workers Share The Trashiest Tips They’ve Ever Gotten
Anyone who has worked in customer service and interacted with a fair share of strangers on a daily basis knows how tiring it can be. Waiters and bartenders are no exception; they are fully aware of how much resilience it takes to smile at someone while they curse at you, complaining about (trivial) things that are out of your control. The job demands character and deserves proper recognition. Yet their salary is often so low, they have to rely on tips just to get by.
Sadly, some sleazy customers use tipping just as another way of disrespecting the staff serving them. For example, people leave fake money with a picture of their preferred presidential candidate. Or put a few bills inside a full glass and place it upside down, so the only way to clean the table is to make a mess. In fact, people have developed so many of these dirty tactics, Bored Panda decided to make a list, showing what not to do when you get your check. Continue scrolling and take a look.
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Leaving This For Your Waitress, Who Has No Say In The Mask Mandate
That's how you create the new generations of idiots. Total idiots, not only covidiots
Interestingly, a relatively new study has found that demanding jobs offering employees little control are among the most detrimental people's mental and physical health.
Scientists at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, analyzed the data of over 138,700 participants from six previous studies on job-related health. Using this information, they classified jobs into four groups based on control and how psychologically demanding the role: low demand and low control jobs such as manual labour were labelled "Passive," while jobs with high control like architects and scientists were "Low Stress," and jobs with both high demand and high control (teachers or doctors) were "Active."
Here's A Tip, It's Trashy As Hell To Leave Fake Money As A Tip That Advertises Your Candidate
The category labelled "High Stress" had jobs that were demanding offered low levels of control. Enter waiters and bartenders
Scientists found that waiters and waitresses have a 22% higher risk of stroke on average than those with low stress jobs. The figure jumps to 33% for women when you differentiate data by gender.
The research explained that while those holding down jobs we often consider demanding jobs like architects and scientists may seem like prime candidates for boiling blood pressure, work-related stress is largely dependent on whether or not you have a job where you feel in control and respected.
A neurosurgeon may be drained after a long, difficult day at work but they probably know society understand's the value of their labor. But imagine running in and out of the kitchen for 12 hours, bringing people food and ensuring they have a good time, only to have someone say "fu*k you" instead of leaving you a tip.
The “Tip” My Friend Got
If they're telling you to "try a different job" i think that means they thought you were abysmal at your job.
What A Disgusting Way To Not Tip
Really Helpful, Kind Advice
Have A Blessed Day!
Wouldn’t Let Him Underage Drink So He Didn’t Tip
Are you really that mad about not drinking, it’s bad anyways
From My Friends’ Server Group. This Was Given By A 6 Top Instead Of A Tip
Our Town Has A Fb Page Called Nosey Asses Of........ This Was Posted Today Smh
Your Tip Is That Because Of Me, You Still Have Your Freedom
I guarantee you their spouse set them straight when they got home. Very few military veterans feel deserving of the special treatment they receive for their service. They don't see themselves as heroes. So for their spouse, who never set foot on the frontline, to feel they are also entitled to the discounts is embarrassing.
Exactly. Most veterans don't take advantage of the benefits that come with being in the military, like discounts and cheaper services, because (like you said) they don't feel like they deserve it. Usually, it's their spouse who takes advantage of the special treatment. (I'm not trying to diss military spouses)
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You are a navy spouse, lady, not navy. You did not serve the country, your husband did. ASS-BUTT .
“Your welcome”. Another intelligent person. What the hell?? Is everyone stupid now?
As a veteran, I would be absolutely mortified if I had a spouse who was claiming my rank, especially to get out of tipping. If you didn't take the Oath of Enlistment, and you're not in uniform, you don't get saluted. Also, she's using the insignia of the Master Chief Petty Office of the Navy. There is only one person in the entire Navy with that rank, and it's an Enlisted rank, and thus, does not get saluted.
PREACH! And thank you for your service, much appreciated!
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If you have to flaunt your service, you didn't do anything worth thanking you for. ---- my mom, US Army Reserve
You don’t deserve s**t because your spouse is in the Navy. F**k you until you join the Navy too.
I don't remember asking her to get married to someone in the military. I also so don't remember asking her husband to serve.
I literally just learned what this meant a day or two ago in a novel I'm reading. Small world.
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Not sure what a Raryos discount is, but this person needs to deployed to the sun.
It says Ranger. Apparently if you're a Ranger you get a discount. other military don't. Which is a shitty policy but unless you're in a tiny tiny place the wait staff aren't the ones who made the damn policy, so the asshole is taking it out on the wrong person. Don't like the policy, take it up with management or don't eat there.
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My thought as well. And they're pissed off about it!
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As a combat veteran I will tell this subhuman...NO you did not serve. Get off your high horse and respect those that actually do.
Non-american here. I served in the national army for 14 months. Back in my father's day they were serving 2,5 years. It is mandatory for all males here and you do not get paid for doing it. I can assure you that no one here ever felt entitled to free service or extra attention just because they served. Meanwhile, many Americans demand being acknowledged and receiving special treatment just for choosing the army as a profession while receiving salary... Get off that high horse people, you're not special in any meaningful way. It's just another job.
As a military spouse living in a military town, you become accustomed to a military discount, just as retirees do with an AARP discount or travellers do with AAA. But it's not mandatory, not up to the discretion of the server, and anyone with even a modicum of sense knows you calculate the tip off the undiscounted total. This is someone who categorically does not understand what military service is all about. Here's something to remember: they are not all heroes.
Embarrassing. Don't take out you're frustrations with a company in the server. They didn't make that policy. Get over yourself
The fact that your spouse is in the military doesn't entitle you to s**t.
I see too many people who play the military spouse card to be entitled and they milk the benefits
Ugh, your spouse is the vet/active service member, not you, depending on where you are, and who sees this, your spouse may face disciplinary action, as some soldiers are responsible for their spouses. And you didn’t earn those bars, your S.O. Did.
Being a "navy spouse" is not a substitute for a personality, but apparently it IS a glaring character flaw, as this harridan demonstrates.
I really couldn't follow what it said. What ever happened to being able to at least print.
I live not terribly far from Savannah. There isn't a Navy base.... just AF.... this person is a total ass.
Your total is 8 bucks, is it really THAT hard to leave a properly proportioned tip of like two dollars?
Once when I worked at Macy’s, someone asked if we had a military discount. I said “I’m not sure, but I’ll call a manager to check” and she was like “Oh, no, that’s okay.”
How do we know this person wasn't the one actually deployed? just asking. Regardless, that's not the waitstaff's fault.
A very small percentage go to war. All the rest stay in their bases. Just a normal job with salary and benefits
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I really shouldn’t be reading this article. I’m getting so angry for these poor waiters and the people they have to put up with. Each post is so damn aggravating. I love bored panda immensely so I’m gonna go to another page now and the next many time I go out to eat I will tip them double to compensate for all the assholes of the world. ♥️
Wow!!! my oldest son recently retired after 20 years in the navy. He/we have no expectations when going to grab some grub. this is just demeaning and silly for the patron.
I don't feel that I deserve a discount for anything just because I ENLISTED in the Army. To me, it was a job like any other. Just my opinion, of course.
So you are petty enough to take it out on all those who don't make policy. Did you not have your ID? Did you dare expect her to "take your word for it"? You give all those in armed services a bad name. Sot off.
When I was in the some of the wives thought this way, like we should salute them because their husband was an officer.
Ans, since when does the server make the policy on vet discounts?
YOU, didn’t serve. Your spouse did. One more example of someone trying to get something foe nothing.
Speaking as a Veteran, no service member worth his/her stripes EXPECTS something from the civilian public for their service,
Karens think they will Rock after destroying all the 5G Towers in the world, for they are against Vaccines, Masks, 5G Towers and other Safety (And Kids Fun) Items.
I searched for this page. Lmao. It's a satire page. Most of the reactions are 😂 The real Karen Military spouse group is a private one. Lmao.
I doubt they were going to retire off of the tip from an eight dollar purchase anyway.
I don't get it. "war from home", "deployment", "navy spouse"? Is this person some kind of veteran?
Their husband is in the military, so she thinks she should get a military discount even if he is not there.
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It looks like the person who posted it didn’t even enlist, they married someone who did! Military wives are sometimes very pushy. My old boss said a woman demanded that enlisted people salute the wives according to their husbands’ ranks! She said only if the lesser ranked ones saluted her (she was a sergeant) and the wives got very upset.
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I Was Tipped At Wisconsin State Fair, I Don’t Get Paid Enough To Deal With This
Kyle Massey Not Tipping His Server And Laughing About It. Then His Girlfriend Posts It On Her Story To Show It Off
Table Of 7 That Came In 30 Minutes Before Close They Were The Last Table In The Restaurant And Got Everything They Asked For From Me This Is How They Repaid That Service
Using Having Kids As An Excuse Not To Tip Servers Who May Also Have Kids To Feed
This one I am not going to judge on because maybe them going out to dinner is a rare treat because they usually can’t afford it. You never know, they could have saved for months to have a night out. Plus it isn’t their fault the minimum wage is pathetic.
A Facebook Friend Proudly Posts Lack Of Tipping And Creating A Mess For The Server
The Guy Who Left This Receipt
Well, the 'tipper' is at least aware that his d**k is in fact, worthless.
This Tip I Got Last Night
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A lot of these situations could be remedied by closing the minimum wage loophole. Tipping for great service vs tipping for their basic income.
Exactly! The minimum wage for tipped service people is 2.13 an hour, and it hasn't been raised in years. But call for the minimum wage to be a living wage, and right -wingers knee-jerk blab rubbish about $20 tacos and robots working in restaurants.
Although a lot of them go overboard they aren't entirely wrong about prices. Take a look at what things like apartment rent has done Every time minimum wage increases. Unless you cap businesses who's costs Aren't majorly impacted by minimum wage. All raising it does is make them decide "Oh I can have more money from people." Funny thing is it's usually the right wing nuts who raise those prices then wonder why the complaints continue.
I am a knee-jerk nut job who thinks minimum wage solves nothing, but taking away the special category service staff find themselves in seems the only way to fairly solve this.
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Mandating a minimum wage only makes the numbers higher, it doesn't actually do what we'd want it to ( benefit the workers). Minimum wage is the level of water, and the cost of food, clothes, housing, etc are buoys on that water. The higher the water, the higher the buoys. Where minimum wage becomes particularly harmful is when businesses start importing (many times illegally) immigrants who can be exploited to take the place of American workers because they don't want to pay the cost of an American workers.
It still doesn't give people the right to treat waiters or waitress like crap, I was actually sick reading this, How can a person treat another person like that?
It doesn’t, no, but Americans have complained about this for decades, yet when Hillary Clinton promised to get rid of the $2/hour tipped minimum wage, I saw hardly any Americans talking about it, even in primarily Democrat areas of the internet. It gets so frustrating as a non-American to keep reading sick s**t like this and then watch Americans take no interest in changing it. Leaving it to consumers to self govern is causing stuff like this to happen, so what is the US going to do to fix that?
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Did any of these service people share the other side of the story? I bet not everyone of these was a case of the customer being the arsehole.
That is true, for sure. But still, nothing can give a permission to be absolutely d**k to others, some of those are psychopathic level.
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Another problem is that in most states, if a business pays a full wage, it is illegal to allow servers to accept tips. Supposedly it would make it harder to tax tips. As if everyone reports what they actually make anyway. BTW, as quite a few learned this year, it is always best to report everything you earn in a tipped position. You will be grateful for that little bit extra you had to pay in taxes when your unemployment is based on the actual wage you made and not the bare minimum many report. What you report also affects your credit rating, workman's comp pay, social security pension......
We don't have minimum wages in Denmark. Just powerful unions...
I think you're going the wrong way on that. You don't REWARD horrible decisions with more money. What we need to do is replace them with iPads and some sort of "cable-car plate delivery system", and let their useless asses starve. To be honest, the like $3 an hour they "earn" now is far too high. For God's sake, their literal job is to carry plates from one side of the room to the other. They don't make the menu, they don't make the food, they don't even wash the dishes. They carry other people's work. That's it. They are remarkably overpaid already.
Please, just wait tables for 2 months and come back and say that. We do way more than you think, often in crap conditions, while dealing with crap customers. What is truly sad, even at $2.13 + tips, I still made more than a lot of people paying off loans for a BA degree. Please remember, we are the ones who insure that you get what you order, in a timely manner, proper temp, etc. we are the caretakers of your food, from the moment we describe or answer your questions regarding the menu items, to correctly putting it into the POS, to communicating with the often drunk or high cooks, to inspecting and approving your food before bringing it out. And, while I've never stooped to this, before showing your attitude to the next server, you would be amazed at the disgusting things I have seen hateful customers unknowingly chow down on.
Because you can't carry a plate yourself, obviously.
Monsters aren't real...just like those excuses. Check your sources.
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My rule: Do not eat out if I cannot also afford to tip 15-20%. It's a shame that it's even legal to pay waitstaff less than minimum wage and force them to rely on tips as well. Another great job, USA (sarcasm).
As a Brit tipping is something I rarely do, I would just not think of tipping because you pay your staff a living wage in civilised countries...
@Marvin: Go back to school and take some history classes before you embarrass yourself any more.
Marvin needs to be thanking the French for kicking the Brits out of America lol.
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England would be a German colony if the USA hadn't saved your sorry @sses in WWII. Plus we thrashed you soundly when we ejected you from North America. We're not civilised - we're civilized.
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Having to tip is fine.. (well not really).. I plan to do it in US since outsiders have to accept local customs. But isn't it atrocious that on average we should give more amount than standard tax percentage (10%)?
Here's the case Mr. Roger, I am aware you small minded people tend to judge someone like me on notion as if I am such a petty human being who doesn't want to pay more for anything if it is possible... but that's just shows that your own self is a mean-spirited guy. You make this personal without no reason. Look, who said I don't want to tip at all? I am genuinely questioning the portion, I thought it makes sense that if we must tip, then at most-- The percentage doesn't exceed 10% regular tax and therefore, of course the wage per hour given from business owners to servers need to be adjusted accordingly. If you read my other comment, I stated that the system is wrong not the people. Unless "jr." in your name indicates that you're not even an adult yet, maybe try smarter instead of harder next time.
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Edo Alva easy
Edo Alva: cheapskate.
It's not atrocious you idiot servers in this country make three or four dollars an hour so they rely on tips to live. You should be tipping 20%. Don't be a cheap ass
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Actually, if a server does not make minimum wage after their regular wage and tips, the employer must supplement their pay to ensure they get the state minimum wage. However, this is hard to track and I don't think a lot of servers or employers actually do that.
15-20 %?! Wow. Eating out = only for the rich? Glad I live in Sweden were we don't have to tip.
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It's a silly system you guys are running in the US. On my first restaurant visit there I forgot to tip and the waitress followed me outside and demanded what was wrong with the service. I told her nothing was wrong and I just forgot because we don’t tip in my country. Judging by her look she didn't believe me. Anyway, I tipped her and felt pretty s***ty about the whole experience.
Reverse here. I started to leave a tip to someone in the EU and she got super-offended, and I had to stammer "Es tut mir leid! Ich komme aus den USA! Es ist unsere Gewohnheit!" (which is my A-1 German for I'm sorry! I'm from the US. It's our custom/habit").... She calmed and said something I understood to be "Oh, no problem, thank you for apologizing." (Or she cursed me to a life of doom. My German does suck.)
Leo, I think she was just worried that you forgot your change 😄
I gave my usual 20% tip and the person was really upset. I learned later that 10% is okay, whereas in the US, that's "cheap"... And in Germany, that particular place took it to mean they aren't good to their workers, I guess. (Like I said, A-level German.)
Just out of curiosity, how much did you tip? I live in Germany and usually the waiters are gratefull and happy about the tip. It usually means that food/service was great.
That's so rude to follow a customer bcos he/she didn't tip. So some think it's compulsory! But it's not! There's no effing law. But there is a min wage law! So the gov is corrupt and is the wrong one, and tipping only enables the gov to continue.
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Typical person who thinks everywhere else entirely follow US systems. Edit: Wow I use civilized words and geniuses below me calling me jerk? Real classy, God Bless You guys.
Don't be a jerk, Edo, people have habits and they're hard to break.
You're a typical piece of s**t.
The same people that write "GET A NEW JOB!" are the same people that are all up in arms about migrants/immigrants getting jobs in their country
And the same people that crap on the unemployed/poor
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Actually, most of these are very rude, selfish, or outright stupid. The problem, however, is that serice workers in the US rely on tips. If tips would come as a small bonus for over-average service (or a bit more for outstanding service) while salaries would be in alignment with the job's duties, these kind of problems would not even exist. TL/DR: tips are not meant as a salary replacement but as a bonus to a decent salary.
Why does the compulsory tip system exist, just increase food prices so that people can actually get paid properly
Biden has promised to do that! So in theory, they’ll be switching to full wages some time between late January 2021 and early November 2024. Hallelujah. Americans have complained about stuff like this for decades and it’s finally changing.
As a server, I made $20-$100 per hour on tips. Minimum wage is $7.25 (back then, it was $4.50. Who is going to wait tables for $7.25/hour? It is long, hard, dirty work. Your clothing begins to smell like food, even when washed. Your feet ache. The hours are terrible. Tips make it worth doing.
The various establishments want their meal prices to look like a bargain. Sigh! If they paid a decent wage to begin with thees poor people wouldn't get stiffed, and people like 'I'm a single mother' wouldn't have excuses to fall back on; they'd have to pay the bill.
I have never understood why servers in America have to rely on tips to live, why can't they just be paid a normal wage? Minimum wage at the absolute least. It's repulsive.
It actually goes back to the 'gentry' who had live-in servants. They weren't paid jack because they received room, board and clothing. When Restaurants first cropped up, the people doing the waiting were all family. When they ha to start hiring, most customers looked down on *all* 'hired help', and said help was usually just there to find a husband, so it was felt they didn't have to pay very much. And it became custom, and eventually was grandfathered into the wage system 'because we can't afford anything more. We'd have to close.' (We still hear that, BTW.) Now it looks as if this will finally be addressed. I hope so.
This is true of the majority of restaurants in the US, but I doubt the servers at higher-end restaurants want to ditch the tipping system. They make six-figure salaries from tips alone.
Six figure salaries?? Even the executive chefs don't get that.
No they don't.
This wouldn't even be a subject of discussion if waiters in America received a decent salary... 😂 And many people out there wouldn't have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to "get by"...
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Honestly tipping culture itself is sh*tty. It triggers "pettiness" image from customers and some kind of beggar mentality from service workers. I'm not saying the people are wrong, the system is.
It's just the same as the US healthcare system. Everyone is talking about how outrageous it is, but no one is making any effort to change it.
It's not that there's no effort to change it; it's that we need a more coordinated effort rather than the sporadic, usually localized efforts we've been getting. And it needs to have a louder, more focused voice to it. Most people don't realize there's a problem. Truth is, the living wage doesn't keep up with inflation. For every 1% increase in wages that the majority of John Q. Public receives, inflation will have gone up 5-8% at least three times, sometimes 4.
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Do you know, exactly, any pointers on how to start changing the entire healthcare system of one of the largest countries in the world without harming anybody or making the system worse? Because if you think it's so easy I would love to know how you think we can do it right.
Actually it is, send people to Europe to learn how government is done, because the root problem in the US is not just the very rudimentary health system it is the underlying political and social structures that allows such a health system to exist.
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It is simple. First you elect people in government who aren't absolute shyteholes when it comes to looking out for their voters. Next you give them carte blanche to reorganize the current capitalist system of profiting from the sick to a system where healthcare is a right for anyone regardless of their income, social status, race, religion, gender or sexual preferences or whatever other criteria you think off. Next you enjoy a life without any worries about medical bills. Like the rest of the world.
In my country there is no thing as tipping system. Tipping is something someone does if they want to be polite and are thankful for the service they got. The majority doesn't tip and that's acceptable. But what i ve just read in this post is just rude and insulting.
All the fake money ones can be classed as criminal acts by using counterfeit money to pay for goods and services and these people should be reported and charged. Not only would the staff get the last laugh but when it gets known what happens with these scams, they will most likely stop.
This is so rude. That people even rely on tips to just survive is more than only rude, this is what makes you realize you live in an effed up society that employs totally wrong values and maybe even is proud of it - see the healthcare discussions in the US to gain further reasons to vomit. People work. Pay them. Tip should be an extra they have on top of a sufficient wage.
1st of all - why should I tip every time. This is an option and a customer goodwill. In Europe/ Spain we tip only if we are really satisfied with the service. 2nd - we do not know how the service was. May be the waiter was rude, we see only the bill posted from the waiter.
I'm not American and tipping isn't part of our norm here (new zealand), but I'm pretty sure in America they rely on tips to make ends meet, their employer essentially underpay them because they will "get tips to make up the shortfall". It's a silly system I agree, but if I was in America (or any other country where tipping is customary) then I would tip, even if its just for that reason alone (that the system means they need the tip)
In the USA wait staff are paid next to nothing and rely on tips for their wages, which is a totally messed up system but what isn't totally messed up in that country? In Canada wait staff are paid the provincial servers minimum wage (around $12-$15/hr) but tipping is also customary typically 10-20%, I've only ever not tipped a hand full of times and it was due to really bad service or bad food etc.
Lol I swear I didn’t steal you post, I posted a very similar response, but didn’t read yours!
Stay there. You follow custom depending on what country you're in.
In America, waiters are paid pretty close to minimum wage, and as a result, rely on tips to survive, in most countries, it isn’t that way, but by god, some of the tips here are just awful.
Stay in Spain then, cheapskate.
Oh calm down, different countries have different norms, and you should respect them.
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Well genius servers in America make three or four dollars an hour. Way below the minimum wage period so they rely on tips. That's how they make a living. so when you don't tip while you're here you're being a piece of s**t.
I never put my tip on my receipt; I always give cash so I write "Given in Cash".
Or maybe move to Australia where you actually get paid a decent wage and tipping system is nonexistent since people don't need it