Posted on 11/16/2013 5:39:15 AM PST by traderrob6
Perhaps I should've made my observation differently. Either this story has been re-posted a number of times the last few days or there's a flood of these "hoax" stories getting posted on FR lately.
Either way, they all seem to start out with a gay waiter/waitress complaining about not getting a tip ......... smacks of hoax territory to me.
You know.... if the people objected to her, they should have done that before accepting the service. (assuming this really happened). And the best way to do that is to ask to be moved once you get to meet the server. We’ve asked to be moved for a number of reasons (including being seated next to a pack of rugrats). But... I’m particular who serves my food.
Post avalanche!
15% has been the norm since before I was born (I am 55 years old). I have lately seen s push to get people to leave 20% as the new normal. I do not buy in to that.
If my service is about what I expect I tip 15%. If it is less than that I tip less and if it is better I tip over accordingly.
We go out to eat about once per month. We were never in to going out and spending wads of our hard-earned cash on dinner. Anyway, the last time we were out the waiter was really good and I tipped him 25% of a $100 meal tab.
My daughter was a waitress and now is a bartender while she finishes college. She is their best and yet there are people who will run up a large bill and then drop a dollar on the counter. Waiters and bartenders may get about $2 per hour and they really get paid by the tips. You may not like it but that is the way the business works and it probably will not change. Not leaving a decent tip to a good waiter/waitress or bartender is just slapping them in the face as they have to pay taxes on a percentage of the total tabs, and no, there are not many jobs out there to be had so it is hard for them to quit.
“Another hoax?”
Sounds like a great way to make some money though. People can be such suckers when it comes to this stuff.
Something doesnt make sense.
1) How would these people know she was gay?
2) “I’m sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle and the way you live your life,”
Sounds so contrived and stereotypical of what some gay person thinks someone would say. I bet these people did not tip, and she was so pissed that she wrote that in, or some friend did.
3) If these people didnt tip, what would be more awesome than running to your gay facebook group, with a photo of this receipt* with this written in there to not only get tons of “likes” but to get people to toss money** at you to alive your “pain”.
* Uh, how is this person able to post a photo of a receipt to FB without getting fired by the restaurant?
** Yep, they started a fund-raising effort for this person. Time for her to cash in big time.
That FB group was virtually all “guilty until proven innocent”. No one there dared question the validity of this. A few even anted the names of the people “leaked”, so I suppose they can threaten them in person for something they have no proof that they even did.
So what’s the over/under for when it’s exposed as being fake?
Clearly a hoax. Logically, unless she wears a t-shirt that says “I’m a lesbian!”, unless the people know her, how are they going to know she’s a lesbian?
Was she kissing a girl on the job? Unlikely.
Maybe the lumberjack shirt, the Old Navy pants, the one of five authorized bull dyke lesbian haircuts, the Doc Martens boots, and the spare tire and surly expression tipped them off.
If a couple was at the table, blatantly hitting on the woman while sneering hatefully at the man, and tossing his plate with the wrong order on the table.
“THIS is what her kids will grow up learning “
Was she artificially inseminated?
Maybe the people at the table were her friends and she told them to not write in a tip because she had this planned all along?
Look for it to be a definite hoax if she all of a sudden she doesn’t want to push this past where it is now. The moment the law is brought into the situation, then these guys fold and confess that they made it up.
” How would customers know about her lifestyle?”
There was a pic on a thread yesterday. If you’d seen it, you would have no doubts.
“Gallop Asian Bistro”
Now that it’s legal to serve horse meat maybe not such a good name for a restaurant?
Ok, so how did this group supposedly know she was a lez?
How dare her kids grow up with her values, the values of 2000 years of human history and the majority of the world! How dare they!
This case was clearly just a lesbian looking for attention and affirmation, and she got it. Just cry discrimination and suddenly you’re Ghandi.
And just a heads up, Mizz, your distracting presence in the armed forces was likely a detriment to the defense of this nation. The people who died in world wars and our revolutionary war are turning in their graves at the thought that you are allowed to be such an attention-whore and not be held to account.
Lesbians are a lot harder to detect by casual acquaintance than homosexual men because far fewer women affect certain behaviors than the men do. I am inclined to say this is a hoax unless the waitress was wearing some sort of a LGBT button at work.
Still, I would tip for the service. I would more likely not tip due to bad service or bad attitude than I would someone’s lifestyle decisions although I would probably not return if that were the case.
The tipoff that this is a hoax.
“remind people that gay discrimination still exists and shouldn’t be tolerated.”
Only in the same way that adultery and alcoholic discrimination still exist. What kind of fascist mentality gives you the right to say an opinion should ‘not be tolerated’. Open the reeducation camps, because this woman cannot tolerate something she probably wrote on the receipt herself.
This will be known as ‘the year of fake discrimination receipt cases’.
They just smack of fraud
Come on! She set up a paypal account for donations? In the midst of her grief and horror at the incredible evil done to her, she managed to crawl to the computer and, between sobs and sniffles, set up a paypal account for people to console her with their money!
The sooner this is exposed as the fraud it is, the better. I sure hope someone’s working on that.
I hate tipping as well, simply because it is written to be ‘required’ by convention.
In another country if you wrote a ‘recommended tip’ on the receipt, they’d probably leave a dump in the chair. You don’t ‘recommend’ me anything. I have paid for the meal, and I will decide exactly if you deserve anything extra, and if you want any extra, you better perform pretty damn well.
The argument of ‘they need it to survive’ is moronic as well. People at McDonald’s earn sh7t money too. Do you tip them? I sure as hell don’t. And surely this means we shouldn’t tip at expensive restaurants where the servers are probably getting a larger paycheck than you.
If these people need to rely on scrounging and inappropriately coercing customers into handing over a large percentage of their food bill to the server, as if it’s some kind of tax, then they probably need to start looking for a new job.
I bet she was too. Likely there are other lesbians that work there, and they disappeared into a cloak room while the family waited for their meal.
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