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closeupready

(29,503 posts) Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:06 PM Feb 2016

Did you know: wait staff do not work for tips? They work for clerics!

For quite some time now, Christian fundamentalists have been angering waiters and waitresses by leaving religious messages disguised as $20 bills as the tip.

The notes say that they can have something more valuable than money, which they claim is a belief in Jesus.

But to the servers who receive such a tip, it’s nothing more than a dirty trick that angers them. They worked hard attending to their customers in an effort to receive a well-earned tip that will help them pay the bills and put food on the table. A plain piece of paper masquerading as a $20 bill doesn’t help at all. If anything, it makes religious people look like a bunch of jerks...

Instead of just being angry, Craver actually did something about it. She looked up the church named on the fake $20, Harbor Baptist Church in Charlotte, and fired off an email to the pastor condemning the action and suggesting a Sunday sermon about fair monetary exchange.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/30/christians-who-leave-fake-20-tips-for-servers-draw-epic-response-from-restaurant-manager/

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Did you know: wait staff do not work for tips? They work for clerics! (Original Post) closeupready Feb 2016 OP

Fundy Jerks Fuddnik Feb 2016 #1

Lots of people may not like the tipping system in the US, but that's how service people closeupready Feb 2016 #2

As long as the server didn't serve a steaming pile of shit, they shouldn't be tipped with it. NightWatcher Feb 2016 #3

It's not whether they can afford to eat out, but rather spreading "The Word" is more important GoneOffShore Feb 2016 #4

Fuddnik

(8,846 posts)

1. Fundy Jerks

Reply to closeupready (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:18 PM

Feb 2016

I'm retired and work a few hours a week delivering pizzas, just for a little extra beer and golf money.

Nothing warms my heart more than, after driving 4 miles through heavy traffic, in a rainstorm, using my gas and car, getting a $0.43 tip (the change from a $20) along with a hearty "God bless your soul".

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

2. Lots of people may not like the tipping system in the US, but that's how service people

Reply to Fuddnik (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:21 PM

Feb 2016

make their livings, not praying that God will help them win the lottery, or help them strike oil in their backyards.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

3. As long as the server didn't serve a steaming pile of shit, they shouldn't be tipped with it.

Reply to closeupready (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:23 PM

Feb 2016

If you can't afford a proper tip, you can't afford to eat out.

GoneOffShore

(17,340 posts)

4. It's not whether they can afford to eat out, but rather spreading "The Word" is more important

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:27 PM

Feb 2016

As far as they're concerned.

Had I received something like that pamphlet when I was waiting tables, I would have chased them down the road and handed it back, along with a lecture about the workman being worthy of his hire.

Luckily the places I worked never attracted the Talibornagains.

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