Restaurant manager responds to jerk church who left fake tip

[ladyVet]

108. I waited table in the mid 790s, before I went off to the USAF.

I hated working Wednesday nights and Sundays. Church people were nasty (I mean, absolutely filthy, both at table and in the restrooms -- you don't want to know how many times I had to go behind them and clean piss and shit off walls, floors, sinks, door handles...), rude, bossy and mean. They never tipped more than fifty cents or a dollar on bills often approaching $100 for large groups, and usually in pennies scattered in the leftovers, dropped into glasses full of cigarette butts or left on the chairs.

We got $1.25 an hour, usually only 18 to 20 hours a week, and after the law changed we had to report tips, a large percentage of which was deducted from our wages for taxes. Most of us got really good at pocketing half our tips and not reporting them, because we needed every penny to pay bills and eat.

Oh, and I got fired because someone told the manager I was going into the service before I could put in a two weeks' notice. I needed to work as long as I could, because sitting around starving for two months isn't pleasant. Let's not talk about the hot pants uniform, which nearly got my ass beat by some woman whose husband couldn't keep his eyes on his own paper.