Man Arrested For Not Tipping Waitress Enough

[LoKyBuckeye]

what the hell is wrong with these people???

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Ngan Thi Bich Vo

Hang The Bitch Ho?

 

[ScriptOhio]

St. Louis Pastor Under Fire After She Leaves Nasty Note for Waitress ? Then Gets Her Fired

St. Louis pastor Alois Bell is under fire after leaving a nasty note for her waiter at a local Applebee?s restaurant.

The pastor was upset that a tip was included on her check ? something the restaurant does for groups with over eight individuals.

UPDATE: The waitress says she was fired for posting the receipt on the internet.

UPDATE 2: Pastor Alois Bell called the restaurant today and got the waitress fired.

Yahoo reported:

An Applebee?s waitress who posted a receipt with a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic gratuity added to the bill on the Internet was fired on Wednesday after the pastor complained to her manager.

Chelsea Welch, the waitress, wrote in an email to Yahoo News that the pastor (who has since been identified as Alois Bell) told Welch?s manager at the St. Louis-area Applebee?s that the ensuing firestorm had ?ruined? her reputation.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/applebees-waitress-fired-pastor-receipt-193820748.html

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...der-fire-after-leaving-nasty-note-for-waiter/

 

[Mike80]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNsrK6P9QvI"]Picard's Epic Double Facepalm - YouTube[/ame]

 

[jwinslow]

Wow. There are no words

 

[OHSportsFan]

8 people ate somewhere where they were served food and it only cost $35 bucks?

They all get sides only?

 

[Muck]

8 people ate somewhere where they were served food and it only cost $35 bucks?

They all get sides only?

'Insert racial stereotype connected with Applebee's Half & Half Happy Hour Here'

 

[jwinslow]

Anyone is capable of an angry moment, but curious about this church (given the name), I'm interested to read their church website.

15 seconds in, and we're off to a great start. Adorning the bottom of "what they believe":

 

[Muck]

Anyone is capable of an angry moment, but curious about this church (given the name), I'm interested to read their church website.

15 seconds in, and we're off to a great start. Adorning the bottom of "what they believe":

FWIW this incident happened a month or so ago & the pastor in question received quite a bit of criticism from her flock, including a decrease in attendance. She also gave a pretty sincere apology (as opposed to the usual non-apology apology).

 

[jwinslow]

ok ignore the above graphic (wrong church, although it had a pretty curious set of questions in its marriage survey... from my area growing up, nonetheless)

 

[jwinslow]

FWIW this incident happened a month or so ago

but script didn't get the email forward until today!

& the pastor in question received quite a bit of criticism from her flock, including a decrease in attendance. She also gave a pretty sincere apology (as opposed to the usual non-apology apology).

Good to know. Is it verified that she got her fired? Or just wrote a snippy note about a surprise tip (albeit a standard practice for big groups)?

 

[jwinslow]

A few observations:

1) Does 'pastor' look like the same handwriting? Or an addition by the waitress?

2) According to this, they charged her for the tip while also accepting the cash tip.

?What they didn?t show is the money that I left and that we all left on the table,? said Bell. She says she left $6.29 on the table and her credit card was also charged the tip amount. Everyone else at the table also left tips in cash.

3) Wow. Another scathing detail

As it turns out, the receipt was not posted by the waitress who served the minister`s table. It was placed on Reddit by user gateflan, by Chelsea Welch, another waitress at Applebee`s who saw the receipt and was angered.
?I took a picture of the note because I thought it was comically immature,? Welch said. ?I thought it was humorously silly, the fact that someone would not only refuse to tip, not only make themselves out to kind of be a jerk but also play the religion card as an excuse.?

She deserved to be fired if it were her table, despite the justified anger. This takes it to a different level.

All parties acted poorly here and there were no victims. Besides the poor saps at the table that received $4 meals.

 

[Muck]

but script didn't get the email forward until today!Good to know. Is it verified that she got her fired? Or just wrote a snippy note about a surprise tip (albeit a standard practice for big groups)?

I'll have to look up links but the way I remember it...

A friend called up Bell to let her know that her receipt had blown up on reddit.

Bell called Applebee's demanding that everyone involved be fired.

The employee who was fired was not the one who waited on Bell's party. The actual server showed her the receipt and she took a photo of it then posted the photo later.

After the incident became big news Bell suffered the usual online & local harassment. That might be what prompted her to apologize but in her defense at least she actually did so. She also claims that she did leave a $6 tip in cash but was annoyed that it was automatically added to her bill.

Edit: OK tracked down some of the original links

Summary of the events.
Comments from the server who was fired.
Alois Bell's apology.

 

[jwinslow]

This has a pretty good breakdown, as well as a video interview into the psyche of the pastor

http://fox2now.com/2013/01/31/web-world-i-give-god-10-receipt-goes-viral/

For a minute I thought she was going to own up to it, say that she was reaping what she had sown. Instead she takes a left turn and says it was so she could learn what it was like to have something go viral, since she does a lot of that in her online ministry

 

[Muck]

Anyone remember this one?

Tippergate

Never leave a waitress scorned.

Beware of the dangers associated with having a common name in the Internet age.

Those two lessons were learned the hard way by all parties involved in 'tippergate,' the Seattle tipping scandal that sparked a social media-fueled manhunt, and an apology.

It all began Friday night when a male customer at the city's Bimbo's Cantina restaurant left waitress Victoria Liss no tip, just this insult directly below the tip line on his credit-card receipt:
"P.S. You could stand to loose (sic) a few pounds."

Angry and armed with the receipt as evidence, Liss began a virtual manhunt, posting a picture of the receipt, with the man?s name, Andrew Meyer, clearly visible, on her Facebook page.

With that, the search was underway for the man Liss called 'yuppie scum.' Comments poured in and soon the photo and Facebook page of one 'Andrew Meyer' were tracked down and posted and reposted through social media and on news sites.

Seattle area bars even posted photos of the man, like the 'Wanted' posters of old.

One small problem. The angry mob marshaled by Liss had nabbed their wrong Andrew Meyer.

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