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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[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by loochy

LOL @ beggars

This joke didn't work.

[HayWire]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

If all of the waiters in the place are making $10 an hour, you're $10 meal became a $20 meal.

That 20% tip is chump change compared to that.

Originally Posted by Flachief58

Yup, your $8 hamburger just went to $18. Sounds great

Don't get my wrong, I tip and have no problem with it, I was just offering another solution instead of a douche nozzle not tipping and a waiter bitching about it.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Swanman

The funny thing is even if the asshat crossed out the automatic gratuity, I think it will still be charged.

Oh it will, lol. To be honest, the person who wrote that on the check probably wasn't even a pastor...it was probably just some lame attempt to get "famous" on reddit...if I were to guess.

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

I am bashing the ones in society who can't even handle waiting freaking tables. Effort and a pinch of common sense is all it takes. You don't have those two things then you are truly ****ed.

Running around for hours at a time while dealing with assholes probably isn't as easy as you make it out to be.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

You don't HAVE to be faithful to your wife.
You don't HAVE to give up your seat to an elderly woman with a respirator.
You don't HAVE to help a lost child find his mom.
You don't HAVE to tell someone they just dropped their wallet.
You don't HAVE to take responsibility for your actions.
You don't HAVE to tell the truth.
You don't HAVE to do any number of things that the social contract expects of you, even though it cannot demand them.

You don't have to...


But you're an asshole if you don't.

Ok so people don't have to tip.

Ok.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Swanman

Running around for hours at a time while dealing with assholes probably isn't as easy as you make it out to be.

And that's why I never wanted to be a waiter. I probably wouldn't make it 1 day.

My friend did it through college and loved it though.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by loochy

as it should be...and it will be, right?

Yeah....that shit is posted all over the restaurant, menus and receipts. Just because you cross it out.....doesn't mean you aren't going to pay for it.

[ChiTown]

I generally tip anywhere between 15 and 20%. I have only no-tipped a server one time, and it was last November on a trip to NYC. It took the waiter 30 minutes to get to our table. He didn't take our drink order, he barely spoke to us, ****ed our order up, the food sucked, and brought out the check with our food (which ****ING) pisses me off.

I wrote him a note and tipped him everything he deserved - $0

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Dayze

however, what DOES drive me insane is when the waitress/waiter takes our order; someone ELSE brings it out; and we don't see the waiter/waitress until we're nearly finished.

that drives me nuts.

I wouldn't let other people touch my food...even if we had what is called a "food runner" on busy nights.

But for the record, a lot of restaurants have "food runners" so your food doesn't get cold while you're waiter is taking an order at a different table, you know, since they have more than just 1 table.

Me, I had an internal clock which was pretty much spot on that would tell me when my food should be close to up so I could be back there traying it up so I could deliver it in order to my table...because I ****ing hated ****ers who messed shit up for me and made my job more difficult (which happened from time to time with said food runners)...

but yeah, getting mad about someone else bringing your food to your table is ridiculous. I think everyone should work in a restaurant to realize how restaurants work.

SPOILER

every single one of your meals at any chain restaurant or 3 star or below restaurant is cooked by a mexican, probably not legal, and they don't wear gloves

ENJOY

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by Swanman

Running around for hours at a time while dealing with assholes probably isn't as easy as you make it out to be.

It's not. It also depends on how the restaurant is run.

Restaurants seem to be the simplest things in the world, and yet it's nearly impossible to run one perfectly from kitchen to table. You just are relying on too many individuals with no cohesive strategy.

In that regard, I do prefer the European style of service. It is less of an "every man for himself!" approach (cue the Commie backlash), where each server is just trying to get in, get his, and get out in time to get ****ed up before the bars close.

You don't have a "section." Everyone kind of is at work together.

I don't know. I'm just glad that I haven't waited tables for long enough that I no longer have nightmares about having a full section and no one has food and I'm in the weeds and I want to die.

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by loochy

as it should be...and it will be, right?

Yes but if he paid with a credit card he can dispute the charge and get the gratuity removed.

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by loochy

Ok so people don't have to tip.

Ok.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Yes but if he paid with a credit card he can dispute the charge and get the gratuity removed.

Then couldn't the restaurant charge him with walking out on his bill?

[Dayze]

God's service sucked; so he only got 10%.
God should be a little more motivated. And, possibly add more pieces of flare.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Swanman

Running around for hours at a time while dealing with assholes probably isn't as easy as you make it out to be.

except for most people, 95% of them, aren't assholes unless you give them a reason to be...

I did this for almost 8 years...maybe I was just better than 99% of the people that did this...that's what I always figured at least.