By Misunderstood Waitress - 06/11/2012 22:37 - United States

Today, I was waitressing for a huge family. Their bill was $750. Excited about the tip, I was shocked to see only $0.50. As they were leaving, I threw the two whole quarters at their heads. Guess who also got fired today. FML
I agree, your life sucks 21 738
You deserved it 49 842

Same thing different taste

Top comments

secretsymbiote21 5

they probably should've left a better tip, but at the same time you can't throw quarters at a customers head and not expect to be fired.

Helldemon 32

For them to leave only 50 cents it was clearly as an insult to the waitress imo.

Comments

Dude why are you pissed ? It's your boss who pays you not the customers -.-

charmanderCHAR 5

What are you new here? Grow up, baby. Go learn how a server works and then come back.

Koolgirl15 0

Lol your obviously way to hot headed to be working a service job like waitressing... I could never do a job like that either..

reading these posts has been an educating experience. i have served for a few years and in a few different places. it continues to blow my mind how uneducated and ignorant some of you are. 1. i live in Ontario, Canada. Close to Toronto. here, the minimum wage is $10.25 per hr. for servers, its $8.90 per hr. to rent a bachelor apartment in the cheapest area in my city is $800 dollars per month. working full time, 40 hrs per week or $356 per week or around 1500 dollars per month. if you make 1500 a month, 20% of your earnings are taken off the paycheck for taxes, then pay employment insurance, old age pension, so from the $700 dollar bi-weekly check, youd keep 600. leaving 400 dollars to to everything else. with that money, you couldnt afford a vehicle. remember, the bachelor apartment in the shittiest spot. its expected to tip. ive had huge tabels not tip. and while my attention is being given to the large table for hrs on a dinner rush, there are other servers getting tipped at other tables. so not only did i not make anything on the table, but serving them made me lose money. when it comes to income tax, servers are expected to report 15% of the income. ex: if your income for the year was $20,000 multiply that by 1.15 to get $23,000. additionally, from the gross sales servers make, x% (depending on the restaurant) goes to the cooks and other staff. so on a $750 bill, i would have to pay 6% of that to the cooks or $45. some restaurants charge a breakage fee where at the end of every shift, 50 cents or a dollar come off your tips. im not making this up. if i went to England, can i drive on the same side of the street as i do in Canada? no, learn the rules and play the game properly. but the OP is an idiot for throwing the quarters. Ive never seen that before lol

reading these posts has been an educating experience. i have served for a few years and in a few different places. it continues to blow my mind how uneducated and ignorant some of you are. 1. i live in Ontario, Canada. Close to Toronto. here, the minimum wage is $10.25 per hr. for servers, its $8.90 per hr. to rent a bachelor apartment in the cheapest area in my city is $800 dollars per month. working full time, 40 hrs per week or $356 per week or around 1500 dollars per month. if you make 1500 a month, 20% of your earnings are taken off the paycheck for taxes, then pay employment insurance, old age pension, so from the $700 dollar bi-weekly check, youd keep 600. leaving 400 dollars to to everything else. with that money, you couldnt afford a vehicle. remember, the bachelor apartment in the shittiest spot. its expected to tip. ive had huge tabels not tip. and while my attention is being given to the large table for hrs on a dinner rush, there are other servers getting tipped at other tables. so not only did i not make anything on the table, but serving them made me lose money. when it comes to income tax, servers are expected to report 15% of the income. ex: if your income for the year was $20,000 multiply that by 1.15 to get $23,000. additionally, from the gross sales servers make, x% (depending on the restaurant) goes to the cooks and other staff. so on a $750 bill, i would have to pay 6% of that to the cooks or $45. some restaurants charge a breakage fee where at the end of every shift, 50 cents or a dollar come off your tips. im not making this up. if i went to England, can i drive on the same side of the street as i do in Canada? no, learn the rules and play the game properly. but the OP is an idiot for throwing the quarters. Ive never seen that before lol

Usuallly a huge party would have the tip added on automatically by managment, and if they didn't, management really sucks! It should have been at least 18%. Screw 'em if they didn't back you up. You should have quit anyway after that happened.

I'm pretty sure that if it was that large of a party, gratuity should have been included automatically...

well now I guess I see why you didnt get a tip. you don't deserve a tip if you're going too throw items

CaptainCommenter 6

Sounds like you're a real tool.

LegendofZelda88 8

that really sucks op. they deserved it tho, everyone knows to tip when eating out and u retards that say u don't use that as an excuse to be a cheap s.o.b. I would have thrown the 50¢ too :)