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Originally Posted by Jessica Leigh
omg it's just lovely... i work in a sports bar and i do quite well... much better than when i did fine dining or casual fine....
but get this... last night... F*CKERS.... i totally took care of this group of people... just having wings and beer their bill got to over $60... then a girl came to join them and asked for a capt & coke... i ask for her ID and she says she doesn't have it on her... ok no drinks for you... well one of the guys she was with was going to the bar and getting her drinks and pouring them in her soda glass... i suspect this since her coke never needs a refill and she keeps drinking out of it... but her ice is getting all melted... sooooo hehehehe evil grin here... i tell the manager and he goes over with me while i bring her a brand new coke with fresh ice... nice thing to do right? well i go to switch out the old watered down looking coke for a new coke with new ice and the girl flips out
"NO YOU DON'T NEED TO DO THAT!!! DON'T TAKE MY COKE!"
Me: oh i was just bringing you a new one, it looked like your ice melted
so she argued and flipped out and the manager just went "ok i know there's rum in there" etc etc... the people lie to us yelling at us blah blah blah... so the bartender tastes a sample of it, i taste a sample of it and the manager tastes a sample of it... yep... that's one GIANT captain and coke...
so we kick them out.... mind you, the guys had been in there for 4 hours or more... they were totally cool, joking around with me... inviting me to drink with them etc... so i bring them their bill and it's $62.30 and i said "sorry guys the manager saw what you were doing" totally blaming rules on the situation and making it seem like it's not my fault hoping they would still tip me decently... they give me their money and tell me to keep the change... $65 even... yeah... $2.70 for me. i was so mad... soooo mad... i went back up to them and faced them with their ****tiness
me: guys i just want to let you know that it's very unfair of you to treat me so poorly when i took care of you all night and you put me in a position to lose my job and get a $1,000 fine
stupid guy: how much did you give her dude?
Me: $2.70 on $62.30
gave them a mean glare and walked away
when i came back to clean the table after they had left there was another 14 cents on the table. thanks guys...
i still did well... made almost 30% of my sales anyway... but how terrible was that? i live in a state where servers make $2.13/hour so my tips are my whole income... my wages just pay my taxes so when i get a paycheck it says something like "$9.12" or '$0.18" or "this is not a check" cause my whole check was taken for taxes... i've never talked to a customer about a tip before... was that wrong of me?
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Naw, you werent' wrong. My friends work in bars/restaurants, and this happens to them sometimes. Sometimes they say something. sometimes, also, random people steal their tips. That's neat. Wow, your min. wage is low! THat sucks. A friend of mine just started bartending in a hotel in San Francisco, she quit berkeley, because in SF the min. wage is $8.25!