Pastor refuses to tip "I give GOD 10% why do you get 18%"

[QuikSsurfer]

http://gawker.com/5980177/pastor-ref...r-tip-than-god

Unhappy with having to pay a restaurant's auto-gratuity of 18% for parties of eight or more, a pissed-off pastor used his receipt to express his indignation.

"I give God 10% — why do you get 18?," the man wrote above the autograt line before crossing out the pre-printed tip and signing the receipt "pastor."

The St. Louis-area server who posted a pic of the receipt on Reddit said the pastor was dining with a party of 20, and asked to have the $200+ bill broken up into smaller increments in a failed attempt to avoid paying the 18% tip.

"They had no problem with my service, and told me I was great," the server said. "They just didn't want to pay when the time came."

Redditors have been trying to track down the less-than-charitable Christian, but have so far been unable to identify the culprit.

At least one pastor was forced to issue a response denying responsibility, and the server herself has asked fellow Redditors to stop posting personal information of random people "who don't deserve a Reddit mob banging down their Internet door."

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UPDATE

Edit: Pastor has now apologized -- waitress fired.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documen...logizes-687234










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[crazycoffey]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

Sunday was never the most dreaded day for me to work...I don't know WTF he's talking about. I never worked Sunday's during football season but I didn't mind working one bit on a Sunday and usually could make pretty good money, too.

I did a Sunday brunch with a Bloody Mary bar and did quite well with it. It was he last time I was in the industry, and it was a second job. But walked after tip out with over 100 / 150 on a regular bases. Yeah I don't know what he's talking about either.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Looking back on it, I actually think I treated black people with a little extra. Not for the hope of money, I knew better. Stevieray calls it my white guilt. I dunno. I did want them to feel incredibly respected and cared for while they were with me.

100% me too.

I knew when I wasn't going to get tipped but these were also the people that were going to make my night a living nightmare if I gave them "racist" service...so I'd just go above and beyond and be polite as you could ever be and moved on...and in all reality, black people I waited on LOVED me...and it's easier to bullshit with black people because they are generally FRIENDLIER to strangers/waitstaff then your typical rich white business guy who wants you to leave them the **** alone and get them their ****ing food.

I used to hate the ****ing waiters/waitresses I worked with that table dodged these people because I was ALWAYS stuck with them because I found it ridiculous no one would wait on them and it was just so ridiculously noticeably racist...oh gee, this white table sat down 5 minutes after us and they are already getting waited on and 10 people have walked by us?

I used to have HUGE ****ING MELTDOWNS in the back of house over this shit. People I worked with knew when to stay the **** out of my way...they were epic. I would go into attack mode and attack every server/manager I had an issue with and it got to the point where everyone knew just to "let it go" because I was good for about one major "attack your entire life" meltdown per weekend.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by seclark

i hate to say it, but i'd just as soon have hootie serve me my chicken fried steak, than bump.
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despite what kind of dipshit I am IRL (and I am) and on this board...I am probably THE ultimate waiter for someone who wants their food, wants it right, doesn't want to be asked stupid ****ing questions, and doesn't want to wait 10 minutes to pay their ****ing bill.

my multi-tasking and efficiency had to be industry top notch...at least compared to the hundreds of dipshits I worked with over the years

my old roommate/best friend was comparable...we used to have waiter chants to compare styles and shift notes to see how we could improve and how to handle certain scenarios...like the one time he told a table we didn't do a song for a birthday while at the same time a group of 10 servers came busting out of the kitchen to parade a table 1 section away with our birthday song

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

100% me too.

I knew when I wasn't going to get tipped but these were also the people that were going to make my night a living nightmare if I gave them "racist" service...so I'd just go above and beyond and be polite as you could ever be and moved on...and in all reality, black people I waited on LOVED me...and it's easier to bullshit with black people because they are generally FRIENDLIER to strangers/waitstaff then your typical rich white business guy who wants you to leave them the **** alone and get them their ****ing food.

I used to hate the ****ing waiters/waitresses I worked with that table dodged these people because I was ALWAYS stuck with them because I found it ridiculous no one would wait on them and it was just so ridiculously noticeably racist...oh gee, this white table sat down 5 minutes after us and they are already getting waited on and 10 people have walked by us?

I used to have HUGE ****ING MELTDOWNS in the back of house over this shit. People I worked with knew when to stay the **** out of my way...they were epic. I would go into attack mode and attack every server/manager I had an issue with and it got to the point where everyone knew just to "let it go" because I was good for about one major "attack your entire life" meltdown per weekend.

You? Go crazy and melt down over something you're passionate about? Noooooooooooo.

I could ****ing envision it. Real life trolling with Hootie!

[Hootie]

and Flop...I used to get $5 from a "ghetto" table and they'd make sure to give it to me and look me in the eye and thank me and I was so polite back to them it was sickening...I knew they weren't educated in "proper tipping" but they truly thought they were giving me a good tip and truly appreciated my service so who am I to not appreciate them appreciating me?

I always made enough money...I didn't feel the need to typecast my tables. Some people just don't know the proper etiquette...it is what it is. An asshole is an asshole, though. I loved when people would come in and just be angry at the world from the get go...why does those miserable people even want to go out? Or breathe?

[Garcia Bronco]

To the OP, totally inappropriate on his part.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

You? Go crazy and melt down over something you're passionate about? Noooooooooooo.

I could ****ing envision it. Real life trolling with Hootie!

my last full time waiter job (I always waited, only bartended part time because I made SO MUCH more money waiting and I was WAY BETTER at it than bartending where chit chat is so much more a part of your job)...

I was 25-26 and I worked with either 18 or 19 year olds or 40+ washouts who hated life...

I dug SO DEEP into them when they'd piss me off and I'd always remind them of how competent I was and how I was glad I was simply an underachiever and not a complete dipshit waste of life who can't handle a friggin' waiter job while telling them I'm sure they'll have great luck in life etc. etc. etc.

I'd dig into the incompetent management staff as well...I'd tell them how terribly they ran the restaurant and how I wasn't paid to run everyone's ****ing food so if they wanted me to run everyone's food like I do every ****ing night they could at least hire hotter, younger girls for me to break down emotionally and eventually try to bang (least they could do)

the only people I would NEVER piss off were the cooks...I learned all the dirty spanish in the world to keep them on my side so they'd always hook me up when in need...that's the 2nd thing I do at a new restaurant (learn the computer first, win over the mexicans second)

looking back at my restaurant career...the only things that ever pissed me off were the incompetent people I worked with...

but I also made SO MANY life long friends over the course of 8 years...I would never trade my restaurant experience for anything...it was such a fantastic learning experience for me.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

Sunday was never the most dreaded day for me to work...I don't know WTF he's talking about. I never worked Sunday's during football season but I didn't mind working one bit on a Sunday and usually could make pretty good money, too.

lol, now I'm pretty sure you are lying about ever waiting tables. LOL

I GUARANTEE that if you polled every waiter in America, 99% of them will vote Sunday as the day they hate working the most.

Sundays is an unspoken word at a lot of restaurants, you don't say the word Sunday. Because it's always a cluster **** and it's always a bunch of assholes and this goes for every restaurant I've worked in. You are full of shit dude.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Bump

lol, now I'm pretty sure you are lying about ever waiting tables. LOL

I GUARANTEE that if you polled every waiter in America, 99% of them will vote Sunday as the day they hate working the most.

Sundays is an unspoken word at a lot of restaurants, you don't say the word Sunday. Because it's always a cluster **** and it's always a bunch of assholes and this goes for every restaurant I've worked in. You are full of shit dude.

Aww damn

It's on now! It's time for a hootie meltdown

[Bump]

Originally Posted by loochy

Aww damn

It's on now! It's time for a hootie meltdown

perhaps he just truly enjoyed/loved waiting tables and saw things differently. But I've never met a waiter like that.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

and Flop...I used to get $5 from a "ghetto" table and they'd make sure to give it to me and look me in the eye and thank me and I was so polite back to them it was sickening...I knew they weren't educated in "proper tipping" but they truly thought they were giving me a good tip and truly appreciated my service so who am I to not appreciate them appreciating me?

I always made enough money...I didn't feel the need to typecast my tables. Some people just don't know the proper etiquette...it is what it is. An asshole is an asshole, though. I loved when people would come in and just be angry at the world from the get go...why does those miserable people even want to go out? Or breathe?

Have you ever checked out cruise ship reviews? A misplaced origami towel will ruin the whole trip. It's scary.

When I did my Alaska trip back in 2010, I came back from Anchorage to Vancouver on a cruise ship. It was inexpensive and much nicer than flying. I didn't have dress clothes so I didn't attend the "formal dinners", but a couple at my table apparently flew into a wild rage at an incident at one of the dinners. I was told later by another person at the table that there was yelling and anguish and in the end the couple walked out of the dining room never to return. The other people at the table were mortified to be sitting there while it was going on.

The incident? When they brought the dinners, they accidentally set the man's entree in front of the woman, and vice versa. When they complained, the waiter picked up the two plates and switched them, and they thought he should have thrown the food away and brought two new entrees.

[Hootie]

Bump you told me that you worked at a restaurant that pulls in $1M per month in revenue (lolololololololololololol) and servers tip out 7% and you WERE A MANAGER.

A manager at that type of restaurant ($1M a month is A METRIC SHIT TON for a restaurant) would make at least $60K.

and you're trying to tell me you managed this place?

ha

hahahahaha

You prove you were a manager at this restaurant to me and you can have my avatar and signature for the rest of eternity. I'll need to do a little research and see if it would even be capable of $1M months...that's just outrageously insane.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by loochy

Aww damn

It's on now! It's time for a hootie meltdown

Waiter wars.

[seclark]

****in-A, it's on now.
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[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Bump

perhaps he just truly enjoyed/loved waiting tables and saw things differently. But I've never met a waiter like that.

I don't disagree that my style isn't the norm...when I work I like to make money. In order to make money, I have to have tables. In order to have tables, it has to be busy. In order to get a lot of tables, I have to be fast, efficient and flip tables as fast as possible.

I realize that most young people in generation Y are ****ing lazy, immature dipshits who were spoiled by their idiot parents and have had everything handed to them so by the time they hit the working world they are in way over their heads and they don't get it. In fact, at my last interview before I got hired the area director asked me how I handle these new kids that are entering the working world.

I've dealt with these dumbasses at restaurants ESPECIALLY when I worked on campus for years. It's fascinating to see how truly oblivious they are when it comes to the real world.

Me? I like avoiding drama and controversy in the work place. I also don't like customers or guests HATING me, or when I leave the table saying "boy, he sure is a dipshit." So I make sure every ****ing table gets the best service I can give since...you know...it was my ****ing job (something most waitstaff don't understand)...

bitch and moan is all you hear from 99% of waitstaff...these people didn't tip, this guy needed 4 refills...this person didn't like her food (that one is annoying, I do agree) etc etc etc

but you wouldn't know, since I doubt you've ever worked at a restaurant (definitely not as a manager, you don't have any type of resume and you've made it quite clear in this thread...liar)