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By Nick - 14/07/2009 02:04 - United States

Today, while I was working as a waitress, I had to wait on a table of 13 people. I was struggling through it and when they finally left I went by the table to pick up my tip. Instead of a money I got a napkin saying "Here's your tip, don't be a waitress." FML

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By WaitedOut - 03/10/2012 08:07 - United States - Saukville

Today, at work, I got to wait on one of those tables where everyone had very complex orders, and some of them sent their food back. When the time finally came for me to bring them their check and receive my well-earned tip, I returned only to discover that they'd dined and dashed. FML

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Just the tip

By Anonymous - 28/06/2009 18:43 - United States

Today, I went into work to waitress on a table of 40 guests. They were my only table for the day and the bill came to over 700 dollars. After they left the busser was cleaning the table and threw out the credit card receipt which had my tip on it. FML

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By tired waitress - 25/04/2016 23:05 - United States

Today, I'm a waitress. A customer came in and acted very kindly and even mentioned how I was such a help to her. She also mentioned leaving a nice tip. The tip? A fake $20. Thanks. FML

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By waiterrrrrrrrr - 02/08/2009 19:12 - United States

Today, I was working my shift at a fancy restaurant and it had been a really hard day. My parents came in to have dinner and surprise me. After paying, they left a note saying they would see me at home. It also said "By the way, no tip, because you stink at serving." FML

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Tipped off

By Anonymous - 30/09/2014 23:42 - United States - Richmond

Today, I was taking a table's order. After I finished, the guy told me, "Just FYI, I'm not a tipper." Trying to lighten up the situation, I replied, "It's amazing how many people forget I handle their food." He complained to the manager that I'd threatened him. FML

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By Anonymous - 22/01/2010 02:49 - United States

Today, I was at my work. To urge people to be generous, I paid my friends to put 15 bucks in the tip jar while saying how great I was. He did this about ten times throughout the day. Turns out, us employees don't get to keep the tips. FML

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By ismerf19 - 22/12/2010 00:05

Today, I was working in a restaurant. On the receipt under "tip" someone actually took the time to write out "$0.00." FML

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By brhorton02 - 06/04/2009 14:42 - United States

Today, I was waitering at the restaurant that I work at when I collected a credit card bill that was worth $120 and a big zero on the tip line. Angered, I turned to a co-worker and said "I knew this asshole wasn't going to tip me." The guy was standing right behind me with $30 in his hand. FML

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All in a day's work

By Steve-noh - 10/08/2018 23:30

Today, at my job as a waiter I sharted myself while taking an order. They tipped me $20 and wrote "for new underwear" on the receipt. FML

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By themonkeyman - 23/12/2009 00:05 - United States

Today, I started my job as a waiter. I was excited when my first customer paid for the bill. I go over to the table, half-expecting a tip. I got to the table and no money was on the table. On the bottom receipt was written: "Ever heard of deodorant?" Apparently I smell bad. Thanks for the tip. FML

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msbetsy 0

Tuesday 14 July 2009 9:37

Your restaurant doesn't add gratuity for parties of 8 or more? Most do, and this is why.

ManImCool 0

Tuesday 14 July 2009 9:39

If you have ever worked in the restaurant industry, you'd realize this is a FML. No one deserves to get stiffed on a tip, especially for a party of 13. But like #3, why wasn't there gratuity added in?

Comments

summer66_fml 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 7:18

trust me i feel your pain. im a waitress too & ppl are so rude to their servers. i have nightmares about my job.....

summer66_fml 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 7:24

razzumfrazzum. i think you should try being a server one day. we try our best but when we have 6-7 other tables we need to serve & we have to get all your drinks & orders at the same time, then theyre calling us in the back to run food, & 3 of your tables are having some kind of crisis, it's pretty hard to give one table in particular spectacular service

razzumfrazzum 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 9:12

Summer I'm not asking for spectacular service. Just decent (average) service. I've always been a fair person; and I generally recognize when a server is working hard and attempting to accommodate all of their customers over a server who's just being lazy and not really trying. Rudeness doesn't require any "special" skills to spot, if you're having a bad day for whatever reason just grit your teeth and smile through it. I worked retail at Footaction for a while. I pulled 16 hr shifts during the holiday seasons and managed to be stock room attendant and have the 4th highest sales in my store; next to my manager and two assistant mangers. Between keeping the stock room clean and full, making sure customers didn't steal, and waiting hand and foot on up to 7-10 customers at a time. All of which keep asking for multiple shoes to try on. I know what hectic is. I also know the value of working as a team. If you get bogged down you ask another server who isn't as busy for help. If you were genuinely trying and you asked another server for help I don't subtract from your tip. Hell if my table was the one giving you a hard time and you made a good effort to accommodate I'll tip more than the normal rate. I reward hard work. Just make sure you don't ask if I want my change back when I pay for my meal. That'll make me automatically say yes instead of letting you keep it in addition to your tip, if you actually earned it.

menelie 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 8:24

Things I will never understand is why people can be such utter dicks to food service workers. Honestly. They are bringing you food. Stfu and eat your damn dinner.

srak 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 9:46

those people are assholes

arachne89 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 9:50

once as a waitress i had this really obnoxious and needy table that i took great care of. they paid with a gift card and left no tip at all. i complained to my boss so he used the gift card account number that was on the reciept and gave me the rest of the money that was on it. about 5 or 6 bucks. it was awesome of him.

skullbuster 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 15:51

And illegal too! Way-to-go...

xFearless 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 19:48

I really dont see how anyone would see this as YDI being a great waitress to 13 people is undoubtedly hard, and on top of that they were probably just rude people. I say FYL

englishmuffin 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 22:23

That may or may not have been awesome. That was, however, definitely wrong. It is never cool to do that unless they give you permission to take money out of the card. Your manager needs to read up on restaurant policies or something.

englishmuffin 0

Wednesday 15 July 2009 22:31

This was in reply to #227.

laomaostu 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 4:49

isn't that the bill will charge tips for a group greater than 6?

brendiz 0

Thursday 16 July 2009 9:37

o man fyl we don't know the full situation though, as in how you acted & or if they were just being rude because they feel like everything revolves around them. Either way i don't think the good tips of waitressing is worth dealing with peoples BS