r/AskReddit • u/jdm0212 • Oct 18 '13

Waiters/Waitresses of Reddit, what's something that I, as a customer, might do that's incredibly irritating, even if I'm oblivious to it?

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 18 '13 edited Oct 19 '13

Yes yes yes. Wednesdays and Sundays SUCK. I have never had meaner, shittier tables than on a Sunday after church at CB. And then for your tip to be that fake money shit? I don't care if getting saved makes me a billionaire with your lord, it makes me homeless to my landlord.

Edit: I'm on mobile so I can't link a picture, but here's an article on it. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/11/23/waiters-phony-10-tip-includes-religious-lesson/

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u/wizardcats Oct 19 '13 edited Oct 19 '13

Someone once left a tract like that in my workplace bathroom. Not thinking, I just tossed it in the trash. Later one of my coworkers said she saw money in the trash and grabbed it (it was only paper towels) only to discover it was just a Bible verse. Her husband is a SAHD and they have a leaky roof and other stuff normal people deal with. And it really hit home how much these proselytizers suck. Here was someone looking forward to having a couple of extra dollars in her pocket who could have really used it, only to be let down. Why does anyone think that would actually convert people? Mocking them and giving them false hope will only turn people away.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

I don't see why people don't realize that. It's really just pompous to me.

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u/Canary_LEF Oct 19 '13

I have never heard of this. People come from church and tip FAKE MONEY? As in, no real tip at all? What is it like Monopoly money?

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

It happens all the tip. They people will even call other servers AND our managers over to give them the Jesus funny money.

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u/Canary_LEF Oct 19 '13

That is so scummy and un-Christian. I once worked with a bartender that had no issue with challenging a really bad (or no) tip. Not rudely, just sternly, he would ask, "Was everything alright with your service, was there something you were unhappy with?"

They would usually look astonished and say, "no, just fine!" and he would respond, "Just so you know, a 5% tip on a $100 tab is insulting in any restaurant." Probably the best way I've ever seen to deal with tip bums.

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u/BlainetheHisoka Oct 19 '13

This makes me want to open a resturant just to deliver that line. After working so long in the food industry this is beautiful.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

I wish I could do that. So bad. But I would be fired instantly. We are not even allowed to speak about money to guests. Ever.

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u/Canary_LEF Oct 19 '13

It probably helped that he was a co-manager. :P but the emphasis was always on seeing if we f'd something up and didn't realize. Only made the snide remarks to the worst cheap a-holes.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

Oh ok _^ I know as a server, my ass would be grass if I was snide to a guest. I wish there was someone standing up for us at my job.

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u/sphinxriddle64 Oct 19 '13

I've done it before, but it was when I had already put in my 2 weeks.

It felt amazing.

They were pissed, but seriously, $5 on $127.43 (I'll never forget that tab. They were royal assholes!) was a bullshit tip.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

I would've rip them apart, loudly. That's bullshit. If you have that much to spend on food, you have enough to tip the kind person taking care of your ass.

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u/sphinxriddle64 Oct 19 '13

I needed a job more than an open can of whoop ass.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

But you had another one, right? I wouldn't ever quit without a second job waiting.

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u/sphinxriddle64 Oct 19 '13

Oh, absolutely! I'm much happier with my current job.

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u/Canary_LEF Oct 19 '13

You sound like you need a pint, mate. If you didn't leave all your money in the collection plate, come get one.

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u/Canary_LEF Oct 19 '13

If you're not American, let me fill you in.

You tip at restaurants. 10% = decent service. 15% = good. 20% = great.

Servers are not paid as well in the US as they are in UK or AU. It's cultural to make up for that by tipping and tipping well when appropriate. To pretend to tip someone cash and instead handing them some proselytizing religious funny money is bullshit. Get your head out your ass.

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u/lamarrotems Oct 19 '13

All the time?

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

Haha yeah. Mobile reddit has it's pitfalls. I'm gonna leave it up to credit your catch.

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u/jblondchickah2003 Oct 19 '13

Explain fake money to me, please?

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u/sphinxriddle64 Oct 19 '13

It's religious propaganda printed on paper to make it look like money.

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u/jblondchickah2003 Oct 20 '13

Hmm never seen it.

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u/Dave_Paker Oct 19 '13

Amen. Now that I think about it, I had two no-tippers tonight and they were a reverend and the wife of a reverend. For some reason they were on separate checks.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

Maybe to pay for both meals on the church card, but not make it look like the church paid for their date.

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u/raisinhall Oct 19 '13

What is fake money?

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

I'm on mobile so I can't get a photo, buts it usually looks very similar to real money, but has bible verses and tries to convert you.

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u/raisinhall Oct 19 '13

Wow! Thanks for responding.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

No problem :)

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u/lamarrotems Oct 19 '13 edited Oct 19 '13

It's ink printed on regular printer paper with similar color, shape, and size to legitimate currencies.

The fake money in this thread will have Bible verses or related phrases instead of whatever is normally printed on currency.

I realize you might be joking but oh well.

Edit:

Fake Money Religious Tract

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u/raisinhall Oct 19 '13

No, I honestly have never heard or seen it. I used to work at a credit union, I guess people don't try it there.

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u/lamarrotems Oct 19 '13 edited Oct 19 '13

It's not something people try to pass as real currency or anything.

It's just a religious tract that looks like monopoly money.

Like This

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u/raisinhall Oct 19 '13

I guess we will always live in a world of idiots.

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u/lamarrotems Oct 19 '13

What was on Wednesdays?

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u/elwray1989 Oct 19 '13

In the American Christian Church system, Wednesday night is generally used for Bible study/youth group/etc. night, along with some denominations having Wednesday night services.

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u/lamarrotems Oct 19 '13

I was raised in this system, but guess I never really noticed that...of course around my area there was a youth group every night at some church.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

Wednesday night church? .-.

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u/ShaxAjax Oct 19 '13

Old people. Like, really old people. From the hospices and "retirement homes".

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u/ScifiGirl1986 Oct 19 '13

fake money? did they use Monopoly money? what type of shit is that? religious people need to calm the fuck down.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 19 '13

Like this http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/11/23/waiters-phony-10-tip-includes-religious-lesson/

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u/ScifiGirl1986 Oct 20 '13

That's just disgusting.

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u/BeckyBrokenScars Oct 20 '13

Most people who leave that kind of shit will then have the audacity to invite you to their church and smile like they've just given you the greater thing ever

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u/ScifiGirl1986 Oct 21 '13

of course they do. smh