A server has sparked debate after she claims she was fired for receiving a $100 tip from a customer. Jeez Louise!
The server, Mar, took to TikTok to explain that she recently lost her job after a customer had tipped a pretty hefty sum of cash. While this doesn't seem like an incident worth losing a job over, it eventually became one, as the customer eventually ended up calling the restaurant to dispute the tip amount.
"I got fired today, and I'm going to tell you why. I didn't do anything and that's the crazy part, had I done something [then] I deserve it, I literally did nothing wrong," Mar began in her video.
She claimed that while working, she had been given a generous tip from a customer. At the restaurant she worked for, servers are required to inform the manager if they were given a tip over 40%, and it would then be put into the system for them. After getting a $100 tip for her service, Mar immediately took it to her manager so it could be entered into their system.
"The tip plus the total check equaled the grand total at the bottom with the signature [of the customer]," Mar recounted, adding that she had been unaware that she should not have accepted the tip. Soon after, Mar was called into a meeting with the restaurant's general manager.
Mar was questioned over the $100 tip she received, informing them that she had received it and that her manager had allowed her take it since he didn't see any issue. "Then I found out that the guy who paid call[ed]," Mar said.
This particular customer argued that his signature had been forged by Mar on the receipt, with Mar's boss taking the customer's side and firing her. "Even though I've never been written up, even though I'm a good employee, [and] they were literally about to make me a trainer. They sided with the guest and I'm terminated now because of it," Mar said.
She added that there had been no space on the receipt for her to cross out the original tip amount and change it to $100. "Instead of sitting down and being like, 'Hmm, maybe the guest is the person who made the mistake,' they had to point the finger at me," she argued. "I offered many times to give the money back because they said that the company had to reimburse him $80 and that it was too much so they needed to terminate me because it was 'my mistake.'"
In the comments section below the video, opinions were a little divided, with several people saying that it looks obvious that Mar had changed the tip amount.
"Nah you wrote that in bb. He left you a $2 tip. Making the total 112 and change. You added a 1 and 0 up top, tried to change the 1 on the total to a 2 [sic]," one person wrote.
Someone else added: "It doesn't look like he left a $20 tip but u can tell the 1 is a different hand writing to me."
A further user sided with Mar, commenting: "The problem with 'customer is always right.'"
"Girlll you need to sue them for wrongful termination, that is not okay," another comment read.
What do you think about the situation? Was the receipt forged, or do you think Mar was unfairly fired? Sound off in the comments!
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