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my mom told me that since i’m a young student i don’t need to tip as there are times when i don’t even have a job.

Eating out is a two-way street.  Receiving poor service is no reason to be rude to the server…unless the server was rude, too…but in that situation I would speak to the manager.  If the manager is rude too, depending on the particular problems that occurred during the meal–if the infractions are severe, I would bring it to the attention of the owner/corporate level.  If that is not a possibility, then either I tell all my friends that this particular place sucked and for them to avoid it, or complain on Yelp.  I am pretty lenient having been a food server at one point in my life, I feel I am more tolerant to bad service than most of my friends.  If my food was just slow to be received but relatively decent, I might just leave a smaller than usual tip.  If I must complain about my food, I try to be reasonable when I ask, and I never raise my voice because that is unnecessary.  The servers must have been really bad for some of the customers to leave such nasty and condescending notes on their receipts/napkins.  (But that doesn’t make it right…I can’t believe someone wrote “get a real job,” or “I make more…”  Just awful!)  I usually tip 15 to 20% based on quality of service, unless the server was exceptionally nasty (rude/inattentive/lazy during off-peak hours/etc), then I might only leave $1 to make my point.

I understand that some servers are just really rude or really bad at what they do…but that doesn’t excuse ANY of that behavior.  That’s just common decency.

However, I thought the pi one was actually entertaining.

“If your steak isn’t cooked properly, that’s no excuse to poorly tip a good waiter.”

It *CAN* be if your server put in your order wrong like if I ordered medium well and the server put “medium rare” in the computer.

Also, if it’s from one extreme to another for example, if I order a well done steak, I don’t expect it to be done fast, so if it is, you may want to question that before bringing it to me if it’s cooked properly and it may not appear well done, it may appear like it may be rare.

@writemyheartt@xanga - Your mom doesn’t know shit. If you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to eat out. Period. Buy yourself some ramen or something. If it’s one of those times when you don’t have a job, I would really really hope you’d  be smart enough to know that obviously dining at a restaurant is not currently in your budget. -_-;

I once was left a gratuity slip that told me, “When you walk up to a table, just know, you OWN it! You are a great waitress and we recognize – Keep up the good work!” I actually saved it, even. I haven’t received such a kind compliment from people I barely knew before or since.

Never got any bad notes, though I’ve heard many many horror stories from co-workers.

I hate it when people under-tip servers for things like poor food. That’s not their fault, that’s a problem in the kitchen. If you don’t like the food, ask to speak to the manager, but don’t stiff your server for something that’s totally out of their control.

” And, in my opinion, even if you had bad service, there’s better action
to take than just leaving no tip and a passive-aggressive note.”

NO, that’s the BEST action as well as REPORTING the bad service to a manager, otherwise, they will NEVER *LEARN* from it.

It’s called positive and negative reinforcement. If the service is good tip high, if the service is not good tip low. If the service is terrible, don’t tip at all.

It won’t change your ways if the customer pays well no matter what. Think about it…..

Lol, i’m glad we don’t tip people usually here in England. Too confusing. Why not just charge more, then pay the waiters more…no problem ever.

@daydreams_nightmares@xanga - “I hate it when people under-tip servers for things like poor food.”

If you mean the taste, I 100% FULLY AGREE with you.

If you mean a mistake with the food, if it’s something that is OBVIOUS to the SERVER’S EYES like if you asked for bbq sauce on the side and not on your ribs, then they bring you your ribs with bbq sauce on them, that’s obvious that they are at fault, not the kitchen staff for bringing you something wrong that they should have compared their written order to the food, noticed that it wasn’t correct and told the kitchen staff to correct it.

@Springs1@xanga - yeah, I was referring to taste

@KateXxXCaffeine@xanga - “Why not just charge more, then pay the waiters more…no problem ever.”

Because then if you think you get bad service now, there would be absolutely NO INCENTIVE AT ALL to do anything for the customer. You’d get the worst service. Maybe in England it’s different, but here in the US, it would be HORRIBLE if that happen. Also, servers make more with tipping(if they are good at the job) than if they were making an hourly wage anyway.

@writemyheartt@xanga - That’s absolutely ridiculous. If you can afford to go out to eat, you can afford to tip. If a service is being provided to you–waiter, bell hop, getting your nails done, getting your hair done–YOU TIP. Always. End of story.

@Springs1@xanga - That’s not true. When I was in Paris, where you are not expected to tip, I got great service. They’re not all over you all the time, constantly refilling your glass and asking how your meal is and everything, but they certainly weren’t rude.

And that’s a rather sweeping generalization to make. I would be nice to people as a waitress regardless of if it was for tips or not, because that’s just how I am, and a lot of people are the same way. Also, if it wasn’t part of our culture to tip, we wouldn’t expect the super upbeat constantly-at-your-beck-and-call service so it wouldn’t bother us that it didn’t happen.

@x__RainOnHerParade@xanga - “They’re not all over you all the time,
constantly refilling your glass and asking how your meal is and
everything, but they certainly weren’t rude.”

We have VERY DIFFERENT points of view of what good service is. If you aren’t there to refill my glass, that service sucks.  If you aren’t there to ask if my food is right, the service sucks.

Service being bad doesn’t have to have a server being rude. I don’t know WHERE you get that from?

In Canada, wait(resses/ers) make at least minimum wage, which is $10. That’s not bad. I make min wage at my job. I’m sorry, but I don’t think their job is that much harder than mine. I work retail in a Walmart and I have to deal with bullshit dumbass customers every day too and help them out, and I don’t get tips. If you pick waitressing, that’s your job. You should get tips if you’re awesome at it and impress people, otherwise I don’t see why you should complain.

I do understand it’s different in the states where the waiters and waitresses make less to accommodate the tip. Sure, I would understand them getting pissed about no tip because your paycheque is gunna suck balls. I agree you should tip them in that case. 

I’m probably going to get attacked for this, but it’s just my opinion. 

Don’t misunderstand me, I think the crude messages are totally unnecessary and am in no way agreeing with that part. That’s just terrible.

okay but gotta admit the pi one is kinda cool

Hubby and I always  leave a tip regardless of whether or not the service is bad.  If we had truly bad service, we inform the manager.  We also inform the manager if the service is exceptionally good.  I am pretty sure that get to hear about bad service day and night.  We haven’t had bad service in a very long time.  Once we were seated, our waitress brought us water, then she proceeded to take the order of 3 tables that were seated after us.  Not that big of a deal until she started to bring out their food and she hadn’t even come to ask us what we wanted. In fact, another table was seated and she took their order.   However, we did not leave a message in ketchup for her to clean up.  We just spoke to her manager and took our money elsewhere.  I think in the five years since that happened, we’ve returned to that place twice at most.

I’ve sadly been to places where people actually deserved tips like this. Luckily, it doesn’t happen often. I tend to tip more than people expect, especially if it looks like they’re having a rough day. Rough day does not equal rudeness though, and I don’t tip rude people. The pi one is very funny, I really liked that.  

@Springs1@xanga - If the servers are horrible, you just complain and if they keep doing it, they get fired. That’s their incentive lol.

Ugh, some people make me sick.

Case in point: I just started a job as a concessionaire at Regal. I recently graduated early from college with honors and a double major. I took the job just for the summer so that I could make some extra money and to learn some important life skills. Unfortunately, one of those life skills was to experience a young teenage girl and her mother humiliate me in a public place because I was apparently a “stupid girl who doesn’t even have the brains to learn how to use a cash register.” This was my first ever transaction on a cash register, may I add. And I had to stand there and take it until my manager showed up. 

Clearly, some people need to learn respect. 

@Erika_Steele@xanga - ”Once we were seated, our waitress brought us
water, then she proceeded to take the order of 3 tables that were seated
after us.  Not that big of a deal”

I feel VERY differently.  For me, that’s just rude, because it’s CUTTING. Cutting is rude.

“Hubby and I always  leave a tip regardless of whether or not the service is bad. “

Did you ever think about that’s why you may have bad service? The only way someone learns is to have punishment.  That’s the ONLY WAY. If let’s say you were serving me, you got my order wrong, I still tipped you 20%, would you really go out of your way to check my food next time knowing it didn’t matter to me if you get my order right as far as the tip goes? Probably not.

@opheliatohamlet@xanga - lol, you should have used it as an opportunity to practice your acting skills and cried or acted like you were developmentally immature. i’ve had some colleagues do that to rude customers at certain food establishments and the reactions they’ve gotten were priceless.

Some of these are flat out ridiculous.

If the service seriously sucked, I could see leaving a small tip or none at all. But leaving “tips” about people needing to lose weight or that you make more money than your server is ridiculous.

Although, if you wait 30 minutes and don’t get any service, I’d be pissed too.

Yes, I’m sure the job is difficult, but still… you are PAYING for service, so yes, you do deserve to be waited on properly. However, that does’t mean the server should be expected to be perfect. It is a stressful job, they are human (no one is perfect) and I’m sure being busy adds to the stress of the job.

@Springs1@xanga - There are plenty of other people in service industries who give good customer service without receiving a tip. I don’t need to tip the guys who work on my car at the dealer, and they never fail to provide good service. Why? As an employee, it’s part of your duty to uphold the company’s image, unless the company doesn’t care about being perceived as jerks. So I think the biggest incentive should be the probability of keeping your job should you constantly provide bad service to customers. And with today’s economy, how many of us can afford to lose our job? Even if people think their job is really shitty (and I’ve been there), they should still take pride in their work and do it to the best of their ability.

I would actually get a chuckle out of the “thanks” french fries if I saw it. And yes, the Pi tip is pretty cool too.

The one where the guy states that his time is worth than the servers is fake. 

@xiaosnowtenshi@xanga - ” There are plenty of other people in service industries who give good customer service without receiving a tip.”

Those people make at least MIN. WAGE, possibly more(I know the Macy’s they make $8.25 an hour which our state’s min. wage is $7.25/hr), that’s the difference, understand?

I work at a restaurant, and I still don’t think people automatically “deserve” a tip. Yes, you should at least tip 15%, but if they honestly didn’t get to you in 30 minutes, I’d ask for a manager. You’ll probably get a discount, or at least a free dessert out of the deal d:

@xiaosnowtenshi@xanga - did you know servers in WV make only a little over $2 per hour? There’s the difference. The people you’re working with probably make 7.25. The tips we make are supposed to add to the 2 to make it even out to 7.25. That’s why we need tips, not to inspire us to give good service, but to help us pay our bills.

The pi tip is cute!
That is not a bad tip; if I was the waiter I would have laughed!
And me, I tip 15 percent normally, if the service was okay, and more if it was excellent, and I will not tip at all if it was bad.
I do not go out to eat to help a waiter make ends meet, I go to eat and enjoy myself, ergo I will not tip unless it is deserved.
No, I wouldn’t leave a rude note, though, that’s just ridiculous.
But this act of trying to get sympathy is stupid, if someone is given mediocre service there is no reason for them to have to tip.
And yeah, there are going to be assholes who even when given decent service do not tip, but what the hell do you expect?
There are scumbags out there; anyone who has a job dealing with customers of any kind knows that you are going to encounter them, and you are wasting time trying to get through to them.. it ain’t gonna happen!

I think the first thumbnail may be fake. 

And to justify the picture heading, they may have tipped the person in cash and left it on the table and didn’t put it on their card. That’s what I do sometimes. The pennies tip was pretty funny. And what’s so bad about the “Pi” one? I thought that was clever. And that person gave about the right amount of required tip. A tip ranges from 10%-20% depending on how well the server was.

That pi tip isn’t terrible, it’s funny! And now I have to ask, is there no other topic to discuss? This is at least the third time in the past few months this topic has come up and no one’s opinion on it has changed.

hahahahahhahahahahha endlessly entertaining

@writemyheartt@xanga - Your mom is a fool.

that pi one wasn’t bad! It was AWESOME!

Been to an almost empty restaurant where the waitress dropped our plates in front of us (causing sauce splatters) & just sat at another table until we asked for the check, where she stood & waited for us to pay. Talked to the manager & he told us not to give her any tip.

Another post about tipping?  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

@Springs1@xanga - we didn’t get served and we did not leave a tip that time.  We walked out.  We also tend not to go to places where the service is bad, so it is a moot point.  We wouldn’t get the bad service again.

…pi.  Hahahahaha.

WOW this is insane. cant believe how uneducated and uncivilized some people can be. They can all try to serve after they lose their jobs and see how much it takes to be a good waitress/waiter putting up with snobs like these assholes.

Anddddddd this is why I quit working in a restaurant

The second one is fake.
It was on Yahoo (they used the words “class warfare”) because the tip is 1%…but then they found it was edited on a computer.

Pi was actually only a bit under 15% Lol how is that one of the top 10 worst tips in history? I would have found it amusing.

Honestly the only shit people I see here are the ones who called the servers fat. That’s a disgusting thing to do.

I think the comments written on the receipts that take personal digs at the waiter/waitress is uncalled for and very rude. 

There have been very few times that I have not tipped someone for a service, but I feel like if I didn’t tip because I felt the service was bad that is my choice. A tip is not mandatory unless it is figured into the bill. I have the choice to not pay extra for a service that I feel does not deserve it.There are many factors to be decided. Whether the server was really at fault and if the server smiled and had actually attempted to make your experience great.Dining out may be a privilege, but the privilege is met when the bill is paid. A courtesy or added bonus is not an obligation.

@Springs1@xanga - Servers in America make at least minimum wage as well.  It’s the law.  At the end of their pay period their tips are added to their hourly wages and if it doesn’t meet minimum wage the employer is required by law to make up the difference.  

At least with the tons of pennies one, they were trying to tip!

Also, how is the pi tip rude in anyway? Stupid.

Once, I was on a date and our waitress was a complete sweetheart. We didn’t order much and split an entree. We ended up leaving a $30 tip on a $20 tab. We had the money and thought it’d be nice since she was so good to us.

Once, at an IHOP, I had the worst service ever. The waiter completely ignored us. He forgot to put our order in and decided to take a smoke break before bringing us our food. It was completely cold and you could smell the smoke on it. After getting the food replaced and having had to ask for ketchup and water refills 5 times, another waiter ended up bringing everything to us. Our first waiter was pretty clearly under the influence. The only time he was prompt was in bringing us our check and asking if we needed anything when he brought it. I left him no tip and gave a tip to the other waiter who helped us out.

Another time, my friend and I went to Houlihan’s near UCF. The food order was messed up, the drinks weren’t ever refilled, our appetizer was brought to us after our entrees were…it was a complete mess. When the waitress brought both of our food orders completely wrong and we asked to have them fixed, she asked why we couldn’t just suck it up and deal with it. When we tried to see a manager, the manager was unavailable. Paid for the meal in cash and left a $.02 tip and a note.

I know I’m going to get bitched at for this comment, but it’s completely fine. 

I have left no tip once in my entire life of eating at a sit-down place without my parents. It was a weeknight, I think it was a Tuesday night so it wasn’t really that busy. I asked for a milkshake, and a water. Now, where I’m from nobody puts lemon in a water without asking, but I was in a different area and shouldn’t have assumed they did the same, but I did. 

So, I get the milkshake and water, the water has a lemon wedge floating in it. I waited until our waitress was done talking to the other people at the table, and then told her that I had a citrus allergy and asked for another, fresh, water. I apologized, and she just looked at me like I was a damn idiot. I can’t have citrus, I explained. I have a severe allergy to lemons and break out into a painful rash on my face and arms. 

She took the water, and returned literally less than twenty seconds later (we were in the middle of the restaurant… there was no drink station near, or a bar. No way she could have gotten the refill and new cup that quick.) with a glass of water. She put it down in front of me, spilled a little on my shirt, and then walked off. I was wiping the glass off when I noticed two lemon seeds in the water. I waited, drank some of my milkshake, and when she brought our food I asked her to bring me another glass of water. 

When she asked why I told her, “Because this is the same one. See? There are two seeds in it. I don’t mean to be an inconvenience, but I really can not have any lemon in my water.” 

So, ten minutes later I get another glass of water. With more lemon seeds in it. 

I asked my boyfriend at the time to take a drink, and he said that there had definitely been lemon squeezed in it. 

I ate my meal without saying another word, and the waitress avoided me every time she came over. I finally asked another server to get me a manager. I explained to the manager about how sorry I was to be complaining (my mother was a waitress for 25 years, and I’ve been one myself, so I do understand) but the waitress was simply ignoring the alert I tried to give her about my allergy. I told her what the girl had done, how she’d acted, and the manager said she’d talk to her. 

Less than 5 minutes later the waitress comes out looking pissed off as hell, and asks me why I was bitching to her boss. I could not believed she even acted this way to begin with, but this just took it. I held my tongue all night, until this point. I told her that if she didn’t want me bitching she could have just grabbed me a fresh glass of water without the lemon, because I had an allergy. She laughed and rolled her eyes, and said that I was a stupid liar, that lemon allergies didn’t exist.

I laughed, she gave us our check and left. 

My reasons for not tipping? 

1. I have an allergy, you don’t know how severe or minor it might be. If I say I have an allergy, please don’t give me something to cause a reaction.

2. If you have enough money to insult me and put my health at risk, you have enough money to not receive a tip from me.

Don’t agree? What if someone deliberately puts nuts in someone with a nut allergy’s dish? Is that excusable? Or shellfish? Still okay? ….No, I didn’t think so.

@TheMonthlyReview@xanga - I can believe that happened.  On more than one occasion I’ve had servers sneer at me and get pissy when I’ve sent back the regular Coke they mistakenly gave me when it was supposed to be a Diet Coke.  A lot of assumptions on their part, thinking that I’m thin so it doesn’t matter, when actually I have Juvenile Diabetes and can’t drink regular Coke.

@TheMonthlyReview@xanga - As a server, the second a customer informs me they have an allergy I drop everything I’m doing and alert the cooks. If you were to drink that water after having informed the waitress about your allergy and you had to go the hospital boy would the company cough up some serious cash!

@TheMonthlyReview@xanga - omg I would of raised hell!

Lol those pictures piss me off so bad… I’ve been a server since I was 17 (illegal yes, that place shut down) and I’ve experienced this many times. I could run laps around a restaurant … I could go on a rant but I will refrain and just say always tip well, even if it looks like your server is having a bad day.

The pi and napkin pictures made me laugh though

@writemyheartt@xanga - WRONG!

People get so angry over talks like this. I don’t understand why. Every person has a right to tip or not tip if they choose to. What every one seems to have forgotten is that tips were started to show the person working that you liked how they took care of you, how they did their job. and if they were nice about doing it. There are tons of reasons why i wouldn’t, and haven’t tipped people. If they don’t do it right, then they shouldn’t get extra.
I’m not going to tip a woman after doing my nails when i have repeatedly asked her NOT to use a tool on my fingers because shes CUTTING into my finger, and she keeps doing it, acting as if i’m not talking to her and pulling my hand away.
I’m also not going to tip a waiter/waitress if it takes them a half hour to just come and get our drink orders. Then brings our food out cold because they were to “busy” doing other things. It’s not my fault if your work place doesn’t have enough people to do the jobs at hand, i want HOT food, not luke warm food. If the place is busy, and i see that it’s busy, i understand that you have other people to wait on. But when not even half the place is full, and it takes you three times at the table and me saying “i’m still waiting on the refill i asked for….” then no, i won’t tip you, you’re not even listening, so why should i?
The way people are making it sound is this: If you leave your house and have something done for you, by someone else, you should have to TIP them something just because they did.
Why? Isn’t that their JOB? Don’t they already get PAID to do that job? Okay, i understand that you don’t make a lot as a waiter, {sometimes other jobs to} but taking that job, you already know that. So you can’t really get angry if you’re doing your job badly, and someone doesn’t tip you.
Now, unless the waiter {or whoever} was like a SUPERDICK, then all those little notes are just mean and uncalled for. That’s just a way of someone being an asshole on top of the fact that they didn’t leave a tip.
Like: You don’t tip the company who killed and packaged your food. You don’t tip the store you go to when you buy that food. Nor do you tip the person {who sometimes} bags your stuff. You don’t tip people who fix your car. You don’t tip doctors. Or vets. etc.
It seems like there’s only some things that people think that just because you went and did it, you should tip them. Like food, nails, hair etc. But when it comes down to it, tips are something we give someone else as a way of showing them thanks. If you’re doing a good job, and someone doesn’t tip you, then they just straight up an asshole and don’t care. But you can’t do anything about it.

@KateXxXCaffeine@xanga - 

Agreed.

I am an American and I STRONGLY dislike the “tipping culture” here. It has always drove me nuts. I worked as a server through my first year in high school at a very busy resort, I know exactly how hard and not fun it is, but I chose that job, no one forced me into it and I NEVER expected to get tipped, though being in America I always did get a tip. I don’t feel I should pay EXTRA for people who give me bland service that they already get paid to do.

If someone goes above and beyond there job, or gives shockingly awesome service, yea totally deserve a tip, but otherwise.. no. Compared to most Americans I am a harsh tipper and I don’t care.

Plus, I live in a large city and our servers get paid higher then federal minimum wage by at least $2.50 an hour.

@writemyheartt@xanga - Then you shouldn’t be going out to eat. I’m a waitress and it simply sickens me when people leave absolutely no tip. Rarely to I fuck up people’s orders and when it does, I apologize and either bring them out the correct order right away or I take it off their bill. People just don’t understand that the world does not revolve around them and I can’t just ignore all my other tables so I can cater to your every want and need in the most timely fashion possible. I do my best to balance my service for EVERYONE in my section and if people don’t realize that when the restaurant is full and I am busy? They can just fuck off and continue on with their ignorant, inconsiderate lives. 

@needusomuchcloser@xanga - but you guys have to make minimum wage anyway. Your employer (by law) has to top up the difference between what you’ve earned and minimum wage themselves, so it’s not like receiving no tip is going to put you out of pocket.

@Melissa___Dawn@xanga - exactly, I just said the same thing (didn’t see your comment until now) – but people like to conveniently forget that.

@blackspiders@xanga - ouch, way to insult someone’s mom. 

Some people are disgusting because they have never actually had to work in place were you have to tend to someone elses needs. Working retail is the same thing. People are gross and disgusting . I always tip really well when I go to restaurants especially if the waiter is really nice and attentive. Ive only ever had one bad experience with a waiter and I still tipped him . I don’t care how inattentive they are , they are still human and i think sometimes people forget that , i also think they forget they work to and aren’t always on the ball at work . Maybe they would act differently if they got treated like this when they weren’t on the ball at work . 

@nancy___boy@xanga - I think server’s wage is slightly less than $10, probably closer to $8 to accomodate tip. (In Toronto, at least). I always tip. Even if the service is terrible, I will tip probably just 10% and tell the manager. That way, everyone wins.

@TheMonthlyReview@xanga -  A sort of similar situation occurred with me and some friends at the Diplomatico in Toronto, but it was the cook being a jerk, not the server.

Two of my friends are staunch vegetarians, and they ordered veggie pizzas. Both pizzas somehow arrived with pepperoni. My friends told the server, and she took the pizzas back. Not long after, the pizzas arrived again, soggy with new cheese on the top. After eating for a while, my friend came across another pepperoni! She was almost throwing up because she thought she may have eaten them.Now, this was almost 100% the cook’s fault. He just scraped off the pepperoni from the first pizzas, added some more cheese, probably microwaved it and sent it back out. My friends got the pizza for free, but we did still tip the server, because she was helpful and it wasn’t her fault, it was the lazy cook’s fault. 

Some of these are bad, and I wonder what happened to cause people to leave these notes, if it was because of the tipper, or the server.  I also don’t blame the ketchup note, the server deserved it.

@Lynn Males@facebook - I can understand the point you are trying to make, but as a customer, I’d walk out as soon as I read the “service fee”, simply because I would view that as an attempt to hide the true cost of the food.  A service fee also wouldn’t be interpreted by customers as an alternative to tipping.  It would be simpler to just raise the prices by 20% and give the servers a raise.

@blackspiders@xanga - that is SO COOL.  thanks for restoring some of my faith in humanity

@Springs1@xanga - I don’t think leaving no tip or less of a tip is going to “teach them a lesson”.  I’ve had friends who have gotten bad tips, and instead of thinking “oh, maybe I need to step up my act”, they thought “Oh my gosh, they are b*****s for not leaving me a tip!  How dare they!”.  In other words, they’ll just blame it on “bad customers” instead of looking at themselves. 

Not everyone, mind you.  But many.  

the 3.14 one, is my favorite

Ok, there’s nothing wrong with the pie one though, haha. But being a waitress myself, I already know there’s assholes who wouldn’t tip even if you gave the best service in the world, because they think you should get a ‘real job’, and like in one of the above pictures they feel like they’re so much better than you. I make $3 an hour, at least match that.

I live in England and work as a waitress/bartender. WE NEVER GET TIPPED. I know it’s more of an American thing, but seriously, people are getting offended because they’re ONLY being tipped 15%?! I would really appreciate that, because I GET NOTHING. Just sayin’.

@writemyheartt@xanga - that’s no excuse.  if you can’t tip, don’t go out and eat.  go to the grocery store.  or, how about get a serving job to make some money on the side and then you can go out to eat and see if you feel alright not tipping.  also, you’re too old to say your mommy told you not to tip.

what’s wrong with the last one?

@PassionFruit06@xanga -

“I’ve had friends who have gotten bad tips,
and instead of thinking “oh, maybe I need to step up my act”, they
thought “Oh my gosh, they are b*****s for not leaving me a tip!  How
dare they!”.  In other words, they’ll just blame it on “bad customers”
instead of looking at themselves. 

Not everyone, mind you.  But many.”

When you *REPORT* them to a manager, THEN they will know. I report mostly all, if not all, instances we have stiffed.

Ultimately, I think tipping is important here in America.  Whether you tip or not is up to you in the end, but I do believe that purposely not tipping someone is extremely rude, because the job is hard and the wage is low.  If your service is good, tip well.  If your service is poor, tip lower accordingly.  Don’t lower your tip because of uncontrollable circumstances for the waiter or server like poor food or screaming toddlers. And don’t insult the server or give them a bigger mess to clean up with your tip; tips in my mind are monetary only, perhaps with a compliment for extremely good service, and shouldn’t be used as a means to pass along anything else.

While you are paying to be served, any business has the right to refuse you that service, and so the “I’m paying so I should be able to act however I want” mindset is also worthless.  If you want to be nasty, then other people have the right to act accordingly as human beings.  Likewise, not tipping at all or leaving a nasty note does so little; you’re better of simply going to the manager, because they will take care of the issue in a way you won’t be able to in your hour or two of eating there. 

Just because this person’s your waiter or server doesn’t mean they’re not a full and total other human being, and they should be treated with the same amount of respect and gratitude as those you are sharing your meal with.

@Springs1@xanga - it has been proven before that mice (and people) respond better to positive reinforcement than they do to punishment. Punishment is not the only way people learn; in fact, it’s probably the worst method.

@TheMonthlyReview@xanga - In an extreme case such as this, despite my personal qualms against not tipping, I think that not tipping is appropriate.

@Spearmint -

“Punishment is not the only way people learn; in fact, it’s probably the worst method.”

Punishment works BETTER than rewards in that if you know you did poorly and then do better, you will know you will get rewarded the next time around if the customer is fair of course(I am not talking about cheapskates).

@Springs1@xanga - I wasn’t sure if I agreed with you, but then I saw that your whole comment was in bold and that convinced me.

@Spearmint - “…because the job is hard and the wage is low.”

The wage is no “lower” than any other minimum wage job. Servers MUST bring home minimum wage. If they don’t make it in tips, their boss MUST make up the difference by law. So regardless of what they tell you, they’re not being stiffed if someone decides not to leave a tip at the end of their meal.

@nancy___boy@xanga - I totally agree with you, and not every place in America pays waiters/waitresses under minimum wage!

People are disgusting. Tip your goddamned waiters/waitresses, tattoo artists, hair stylists, and nail-doers. If they had great service, tip well. The service would have had to be absolutely horrific for me to not tip at all.

And seriously, if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all. Didn’t we learn that in kindergarten? Anyone in customer service has a demanding job that doesn’t typically even pay well. They deserve to be treated with as much dignity and respect as anyone else, perhaps more for all the bullshit they have to put up with.

I leave compliments on my receipts sometimes, but none of this passive-aggressive bullying.

I work in a hair salon as a receptionist and my sister works at a server in a mediocre restaurant. That being said, I know all about tips and how people should tip. That’s my disclaimer for I still don’t think everyone deserves tips. I see the stylists at work all the time react rudely to customers and I’m shocked that the clients still tip them. I’ve heard my sister’s horror stories of not being tipped and her crazy tables, too. I do take into account that some things are inevitable. Sometimes your server is going to be busy, sometimes your food is going to come out wrong, things happen. I don’t even care if the server acknowledges the bad service or not. My only problem is when I’m ignored. I look younger than I am and so I know when I’m at a table servers typically think I’m 16-17 and that I’m not going to tip. Which is fine, I know it happens all the time. It happens at my work, too. If a server blatantly ignores me though, I will not tip them. It’s only happened once where I was so ignored that I was offended. The guy had one other table asides from the table I was at with my boyfriend, he didn’t even drop our food off, and he thought we were trying to leave without paying, but it was only because we went to go find somewhere to pay since he hadn’t come back to our table in 45 minutes. Anyways, I always tip for the most part and I usually tip 25% or up. I’ve tipped 50% before. I have no problem tipping and tipping well, but I’m not going to tip someone who honestly doesn’t deserve it. Servers in California get paid minimum wage. I get paid minimum wage. I don’t cry every time I don’t get tipped. 

I like the guy that tipped Pi.

I don’t know why I want to go back to waitressing. It wasn’t often I didn’t get tipped but one time this group of girls came in & I checked up on them every like 10 minutes, asked them if they wanted refills twice & both times they said no & gave me a dirty look, & at the end of the night left me no tip with notes on the back detailing what I did wrong, including not filling their drinks or checking up on them enough.. I was like, fucking idiots.

@lovelyish - lmao win. Go lovelyish.

the pi one is funny, most of the others are terrible. I’d be so embarassed to eat with someone who would act like that. What the hell is wrong with people.

@Springs1@xanga - leaving no tip if the service is actually really bad is one thing. Being a rude asshole another.

@daydreams_nightmares@xanga - true, but you can risk their job that way…

@writemyheartt@xanga - Every server ever dislikes this.  Don’t go out if you can’t afford to tip.  Plain and simple. 

The Pi one is pretty funny and creative, but all the rest are pretty horrendous. Hilarious receipts.

Some of these are just mean.

@Springs1@xanga - If only it were that simple! But unfortunately people tip poorly for many reasons, not just bad service. If I were to take every 10% tip or less I’ve ever received as a lesson, I wouldn’t be able to move on with my life!