Working in the service industry is a thankless profession. Take it from me: I've done it.

Every single day, you have to deal with a lot of exhausting manual labour for relatively little pay, pushy "I want to talk to your manager" types who think they know better than you about everything, and endless interactions with people who believe that - because you work in a shop or a restaurant or a bar - you are not worthy of respect.

And when you're trying your hardest to make a living, all these things really start to hurt after a while.

Taylar Cordova, a Colorado waitress, is a prime example of how mistreatment or inconsideration towards workers who interact with the public can leave so much more damage than the average person might expect.

Back in 2016, she shared an emotional statement on Facebook after receiving a $0 on a $187.43 bill. Now, however, her plea has resurfaced to remind people that those in the service industry (especially wait staff) deserve a little more compassion in the workplace.

"This. This is the reason I work so much," she wrote alongside a picture of a receipt from her day at work. "This is why I cry in the shower. I STRUGGLE to put clothes on my daughter’s back and food in our bellies because of THIS. You, are the lowest of the low."

She continued:

"Whenever you feel like it’s probably fine to not tip your server, that’s one more bill stacking up because they’re short on money. This is food for the week that our families will go without because you didn’t think it was necessary, even after asking for everything under the sun and receiving it free of charge, mind you. This is one less basic necessity my daughter needs because even TWO more dollars is too much for you.

"Every decision has a consequence."

Cordova then went on to say that people in her industry earn very little - and there are actually only seven US states where servers earn minimum wage before tips.

"Servers are paid a base pay of $2-5/hr depending on the employer, so next time you don’t want to tip, regardless of the situation prior to receiving your bill, think about how much you would have to work that week off $2-5/hr to feed your family, not just you," she said.

Then, she urged everyone else to put themselves in her shoes:

"Could you pay your bills based on that pay alone? Could you feed your family AND yourself? Because that’s what happens when you choose to not tip.

"Please, please tip your servers. Even if it was the worst service you’ve ever received. A 10% tip is a big enough slap in the face, this completely tore me apart. Don’t even bother walking into a restaurant if you can't afford to tip. There's a McDonald’s down the street if you're that cheap."

If she had received a tip at the standard rate of 15 per cent, she would have got an extra $28.11 that day. That could have paid for a few days' food, the monthly internet bill, or a week's worth of public transport use. And, to someone who could already afford almost $200 in one sitting, it probably isn't that much to give.

So next time you think of forgoing the tip after a meal out, just think of this post, and how much your spare change might mean to someone who is trying their hardest to make ends meet.

A restaurant server has gone viral on social media after expressing her anger at customers who sat at a table for six hours and only left a 10 percent tip.

The server, Kristina Withers, who goes by the handle @krisswith on TikTok, posted a two-minute video explaining her annoyance at the unidentified customers.

In the video, she said the customers were at the restaurant before she even got to work at 5:30 PM, and that her colleague, who had gotten to work at 3:30 PM, had already served them and cashed them out.

"They were fine, they were chilling," Kristina said of the couple that was at the restaurant before her shift. "They were good to go. Cashed out, no worries."

Watch Withers' TikTok below:

By 7 PM - three hours after they had been cashed out - the customers came up to the server and asked her who is in charge of their table because they wanted to order drinks and dinner.

By that time, Kristina's coworker had finished her shift, and so the TikToker became their new server.

The woman said during her shift, each of the customers got a drink, a taco plate, and then ordered another drink at 8 PM. She said that the couple was the last customers in the restaurant - even when it was set to close at 10 PM.

"The best part though, the very best part? They didn’t even tip 20%," Kristina said. "They were my only table. Like I know I was giving them great service - probably overly good service because, again, they were my only table."

Kristina insisted that she gave them excellent service, but despite that, the customers only tipped her 10% for the six hours they spent.

"So if you’re going to go sit in a restaurant for six f***ing hours, there should be like a f***ing table fee. $5 [per] f***ing hour if you’re sitting there not drinking and not buying anything," she said in aggravation. "It’s a f***ing joke."

The server's video amassed 5132 likes and 40.3K views on the social media platform, with many viewers saying they understood Kristina's frustration.

Some people couldn’t fathom why the customers felt comfortable sitting inside a restaurant for six hours - and then only tipping a small amount.

One user was baffled and wrote: "Wth who [sits] at a restaurant for 6 hours?"

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Another commented that senior staff members should've gotten involved: "This was a manager fail. they should have been told to leave way sooner."

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A third user questioned: "I want the entitled broke people who refuse to tip to try and justify how you can waste a server’s time for 6 hours and only tip 10 percent."

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Lastly, a fourth user shared a similar experience and wrote: This happened to me when I was serving, two ladies sat for HOURS and left a dollar in coins."

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Well, it looks like many people are bemused by the couple's restaurant conduct. What do you guys think? Comment down below!

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A waitress has gone viral on social media after revealing that she has used the "shaming" technique currently going viral on social media in order to get customers to tip her more.

TikTok user Tamela - who goes by the handle @tamela.anderson on the social media platform - posted a video of herself confirming that the "shaming" method works for getting better tips - especially from rude customers.

In her video, Tamela explains spoke about her experience serving two men once. She recalled that one of the men paid for the entire bill in cash but only provided a few dollars - accounting for 10% to 15% of the check - as a tip.

Check out her TikTok below:

However, as she was collecting the man's payment, he made an unwarranted remark about her appearance and said "I've never been a fan of blondes." She then replied: "You know, I don’t really like s***ty tippers."

After her blunt reply, Tamela said the customer added another $10 bill.

Tamela's video garnered a lot of attention from users on the platform. The video has been viewed over 720,000 times and has more than 133,000 likes. However, users of the social media platform were divided over the method.

Some applauded the waitress for her snappy comeback and acknowledged that service workers don’t get paid enough for their work.

One user said: "People that are against you or complaining about your behavior clearly [have] never worked as a server, y’all get real." Another user added: "That’s honestly fair because he came for you first lol."

A third commented: "Unexpected reactions yield unpredictable results."

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While other users had questions about Tamela's approach and the principles behind "shaming" customers to receive tips greater than 15% - which many consider the standard tip amount.

One user wrote: "Maybe servers should shame their bosses into paying them a livable wage so they don’t have to depend on tips."

Another chimed in and said: "Tips are a gratuity and not owed. Shaming anyone for a tip is crazy and unprofessional."

A third asked: "10-15% isn’t a good tip? What is?"

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A few people under Tamela's comment section asked her to reiterate what she meant when she stated that she no longer felt the need to try and put on a "waitress persona" for her customers.

In a follow-up video, the waitress clarified the misunderstanding and explained that she wasn't being "overly nice" or "using a fake voice" with customers.

Tamela added: "If men are gonna be making inappropriate comments to me, I’m just gonna start making inappropriate comments back to them."

Sounds fair to me!

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[post_page_title]#9 A Customer Wanted To Return Some Produce Because "It Was Too Ripe." I Asked Him If He Had Already Tried Eating It Anyway And He Said "Does It Look Like I Touched It?"[/post_page_title] This is... [caption id="attachment_4549" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit: Imgur / nakedlynutricious[/caption] Incredible. What thought process would lead to the justification for even A) attempting this and B) convincing yourself post-surgical procedure to take it back to the store in the first place. The mind boggles. [post_page_title]#10 Wandering Through The Store, When Suddenly I Smell Piss. Stay Trashy Salt Lake[/post_page_title] In most nations of the world, where large stores are prevalent, it is a legal requirement that toilet facilities are made available to customers. [caption id="attachment_4550" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit: Reddit / tritops2018[/caption] Or perhaps not... Or maybe, this was simply the perfect spot. Who knows? [post_page_title]#11 When Parents Let Their Kids Destroy The Thrift Store[/post_page_title] On a personal level, whenever I have had to serve families, I expect the worst. It is common enough that tiny-humans make a little mess and for the most part it is excusable. However, sometimes, that isn't the worst part of this all-too-common equation. [caption id="attachment_4551" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit: Reddit / Unsafeturtle[/caption] Control your kids, parents, and if they do get somewhat out of hand - CLEAN. IT. [post_page_title]#12 Store Clerks Had To Lock The Freezers After The Recent Trashy Trend Of People Going Around Stores, Opening Containers And Licking The Top Of The Ice Cream Before Putting It Back[/post_page_title] I can understand really wanting to try things, really, but this next entry takes food shopping to a new level. [caption id="attachment_4552" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit: Reddit / HaseebM1[/caption] The new level being, not actually shopping, rather ruining the days of others and costing businesses money for no more than a few near-non-beneficial moments of pleasure on the taste buds. Get in the sea. [post_page_title]#13 This Is Amusing But Still. This Would Be About $2![/post_page_title] Much like the person from which this image is sourced, I did partake in a chuckle. [caption id="attachment_4553" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit: Reddit / BlueberryPuffy[/caption] That said and light-humor aside, all you are really doing is depriving a child and/or setting a bad example for one. Shame on you! [post_page_title]#14 Girl Wants Some Company To Go And Steal From The Dollar Store[/post_page_title] This next one is utterly incredible in its epitome of everything that is wrong with the developed world. 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[caption id="attachment_4574" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit: Reddit / illicitz[/caption] What makes this even worse is not only the mess itself, but the overtly sub-par manner in which the person in question has hastily and very, very poorly thrown some napkins down and made a quick exit. You'd just go up and say something surely?! No? Just me? Urgh. [post_page_title]#30 What Is It In Your Cleavage... At The Grocery Store?[/post_page_title] Scroll down slowly for this one and prepare yourself. Had I not ended this list of ten multiplied by three with this image, I would have failed you all, let alone myself. In all honesty, I had to stare at this one for far more than I would have liked, simply take it all in before pondering (again, for far too long), HOW this has even happened?! [caption id="attachment_4575" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit: Reddit / yourmomak[/caption] Once I had ascertained that this indeed WASN'T baguette or parsnip and settled on the reality of its phallic nature, it only served to propagate more and more questions. I've seen some things in my time working behind bars and in restaurants, but this list has been an interesting read. Don't be like these people.

In a world where there are still millions of people around the world without secure access to food, I think it's really easy to take the idea of a restaurant for granted.

Once in a while (or whenever you can afford it and you're too lazy to cook), you can head out to many an establishment and have somebody cook for you. Whether you're craving some seafood or hungry for a burger, your food whims can be satisfied in an instant; your only job is to ensure that you pay the adequate cash to those doing the work for your hunger. Simple, really.

It's kind of sad, then, that some people fail to see the need to do that last bit properly; viewing restaurant workers working for (sometimes less than) minimum wage as being somehow unworthy of tips, stiffing them in all sorts of unsavoury ways. One such couple - who probably thought they were being super clever by doing this - have caught significant heat online for their pretty awful tipping method.

One thing you should attempt to remember about your restaurant server - that this couple clearly forgot - is that they're human. They're working long and stressful hours for little pay, and as such, they're probably prone to occasionally making a mistake. One thing you should definitely not do is attempt to leverage good service by threatening to remove their tip. That would be bad.

But it's exactly what one Facebook user did, boasting on social media that this trick employed by himself and his wife is imperative to getting "the best service of your life". Though the post has since been deleted, we've got a pretty good idea of how he tormented one poor waitress for her tip (which she needs to, you know, survive).

So, as this restaurant patron describes it, you start with five one-dollar bills (let's not get too crazy here) on the table, in clear view of the person serving you. “Don’t say anything to them,” he writes, before going on to explain how this all works. "If they mess up, you take a dollar away and so on. At the end of the dinner, however much is left, is their tip."

According to the Facebook user, the waitress did forget to bring the table bread (which did cost her a dollar), but made up for it by bringing along extra bread later, scoring herself the full tip! Okay, let's be honest; this is awful, and Atlanta-based news, weather, and traffic host (not to mention former restaurant waiter) Mark Arum summed up the mood in a single tweet.

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Unsurprisingly, the rest of Twitter wasn't far behind, with some disparaging remarks. "I served for years putting myself through college," tweeted one user by the name of Randall W. Bond. "I would have ignored you most of the night for the satisfaction of letting you know your condescending $5 means absolutely nothing to me while i racked up $10-$20 tips from people that can actually afford to go out to eat."

Randall's wasn't the only angry response. Not by a long shot. "What a weird new way to be cheap and rude simultaneously," quipped one, while another added: "I agree. Why do some people treat servers like they are training an animal? If they do good then you give them a treat, if they mess up you rub their nose in it. Smh."

"Millenials [sic] are so disrespectful! Anyway, honey, let's make our less-than-minimum-wage server dance on eggshells for a $5 tip on our $80 dinner," joked a third, pretty much hitting the nail on the head here. If you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat waiters, then maybe this Facebook user and his wife should be given a very wide berth.