Chelsea Welch-Fired Applebee's Waitress- Heroic "Statement On Behalf Of Wait Staff Everywhere'

[noamnety]

192. Your English teacher's advice is wise.

And it would have been good advice for the pastor. Not because the employee had a right (legally or morally) to publish the receipt, but because we have to consider there's always a potential for an ABUSE of trust.

That doesn't mean the server was ethically right to publish it. Any employee of any business has an obligation to not publish receipts without a customer's knowledge or consent, and in a restaurant it's common practice to leave them on the table - that's NOT considered giving consent for the company or its employees to publish the bill. I'm shocked people are claiming that leaving your paid bill on the table is equivalent to "making it public."

I'm equally shocked that people are applauding the server's argument that if a customer writes a personal note to an employee, it must follow that the customer wants it published. That's messed up.

Aside from that, it's against corporate policy to take personal photos of it. Even if they really really wanted to.

There are a lot of reasons people might not want their location or habits to be published. A server has no way of knowing whether the customer is in hiding from a stalker. They don't know if the customer is out with a friend (either innocently or not) and a jealous spouse or ex will become violent because of it. There's just no way of knowing what the impact will be on a person, which is why the assumption should always be that the customer's privacy has importance.