Posted on 02/28/2012 7:56:50 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man
The restaurant receipt that a California banker purportedly used to denigrate a waitress--while also leaving her a one percent tip--was wildly “altered and exaggerated,” according to a spokesperson for the Newport Beach restaurant where the businessman supposedly dined earlier this month.
A photo of the receipt has gone viral in the past few days, fueled by a back story claiming that the measly tip was the imperious financier’s way of provoking a member of the lowly “99%” who was not sufficiently solicitous. The claim about the tip--and a photo of the receipt--first appeared last week on a blog that is now offline (along with a related Twitter account).
In fact, a spokesperson for True Food Kitchen in Newport Beach told TSG that the eatery was able to locate the actual “merchant copy” of the February 16 credit card receipt and it reveals that the online version has been Photoshopped.
In response to e-mailed questions, spokesperson Jami Reagan reported that the original receipt does not contain the notation “Get A Real Job.” Nor does it have an arrow pointing to those words from the “Tip” line.
The amount on the actual receipt is $33.54, Reagan said, not $133.54 as seen on the altered receipt. And while the tip on the online receipt claims that the server was left $1.33 (or one percent of the bill), the actual tip was $7 on the $33.54 tab.
The “Future Ex Banker” blog, now AWOL, claimed to be authored by someone who worked in “the corporate office of a major bank for a boss who represents everything wrong with the financial industry: blatant disregard and outright contempt for everyone and everything he deems beneath him. On top of that, he’s a complete and utter tool.”
Gilding the lily, the anonymous blogger also noted, “Mention the ‘99%’ in my boss’ presence and feel his wrath. So proudly does he wear his 1% badge of honor that he tips exactly 1% every time he feels the server doesn’t sufficiently bow down to his Holiness. Oh, and he always makes sure to include a ‘tip’ of his own.”
If so, he probably didn't expect the merchant to dig up the receipt and expose him as a liar.
Unmentioned was the fact the waitress pays no taxes. Her fair share is $0.
She has no stake in America and has no authority to bitch about others.
He got the desired outrage reactions by the idiots that read and posted on the original story the other day. They probably won't see that it was a lie so that they will continue believing that this guy is a brave little martyr for the "cause".
I can imagine some smelly trust fund maggot being interviewed by a drooling "journalist" at the next "occupy" gathering regurgitating this BS story as a fact for their useless flea infested comrades.
Did Yahoo publish a retraction?
Ironically, Yahoo did update the original story with a leading paragraph that The Smoking Gun had contacted the restaurant and were told that it was Photoshopped. But, they didn't change the inflammatory headline:
Banker’s Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99%
They did finally follow with two articles:
I’ll be damned...appreciate the heads up.
``Other than that the story is true?’’
It’s not whether the story is true - it’s the SERIOUSNESS of the charges!
/libtard
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