I got plenty of fake Jesus dollar tips as a barista. So fucking annoying.
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Why don't all food service places have you pay when you order? It works like that in the uk in more than half of places and the establishment can't suffer any loss.
Because they want to upsell you throughout the meal, add on drinks, appetizers, side dishes, desserts, etc.
why couldn't they do it anyway after they've made you paid for the first round?
Every time they ask you for more money is more friction, and you're more likely to be aware of how much you're spending. They'd rather you just order food without thinking about prices until the bill comes.
It's also harder to hit you with hidden fees.if you see it before, then you can refuse. If you eat the food and then find out you can't exactly refuse to pay as easily.
Fast food places and cafes, sure, but not restaurants with waiting staff. Even the least trusting of those will just take your card when you sit down then charge you at the end.
Is that thief on the security camera? I'd track them down and inform LE.
That triggers the victim/martyr response, though...
"I was HARASSED and ARRESTED for believing in JESUS!!!"
This is just what happens when paying customers enter the establishment pre-loaded with its own exploitative energy
I wiped
I miss the aslume....
Call me a godless skeptic but I'm going to take this with a grain of salt.
Yeah, these things are notoriously faked.
The tip thing is a well known one and while I doubt anyone would be as brazen as the situation in OP, I've known some very brazen people.
I waited tables for 5 years quite some time ago. I never had someone skip out on the total bill, but I did get a few of these as a "tip". Since I'm in the US, I actually lost money on those tables since we had to pay a flat percentage of our "sales" into a pool that was split between other front of house staff.
What a stupid system.
I have very mixed feelings about it TBH.
It was a bigger place that would staff for surges in customers. "Better" WWs would get better sections and shifts, so you would stay busier longer despite dips in overall volume. Not to mention more consistent tips.
This all created an incentive to be decent at your job, which involved a mix of knowing the menu, how to interact with customers, and multitasking/path optimization to turn your tables. I routinely did 20,000 to 30,000 steps a shift. Not everyone figured it out or wanted to do that amount of work, so the low end of the staff had a decent amount of turnover.
On the higher end of the scale you could clear $200-$300/shift working in casual dining, depending on the day of the week, without any education barriers. That's $20-30/hour or $42-$60k/year. You weren't getting rich, but that's enough to put you around median income levels. There were lifers who had been doing it for decades.
I don't see a shift to hourly pay making up the difference for the higher earners.
High earners can still make tips on an hourly pay.
Hourly pay does not exclude tipping.
You're not wrong, I just wonder what the net impact would be. Working for $2.13/hour was... very dumb.
"not that the server got stiffed on a tip"....
it's only when the owners get robbed that they'll say something about it
Yeah, if owners were required to cover the difference when waiters get stiffed or under-tipped, I bet things would change pretty quickly.
They are? Unless you mean to an arbitrary tip amount like 20%. Businesses are required to pay servers minimum wage if tips don’t make it. It’s still super scummy and they should pay living wages by default, but they can’t just not pay people.
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On reddit the op left the Gemini icon in the lower corner...
Yeah, look at the bottom of that receipt. Somethings not right.
It's not supposed to be a literal receipt on receipt paper. It's a card printed to kinda-sorta look like a receipt.
Whether this particular instance is fake or not, the general concept is very much a real thing. Depressingly so. There's a whole cottage industry of motherfuckers selling this type of stuff to smug assholes for the purpose of leaving them lying around all over the place believing that they're doing some kind of good in the world.
Most popular are the ones where one side is gussied up to look like a dollar bill which you're supposed to leave in lieu of a tip or even worse instead of actually paying somebody for something, and the other side is a screed full of evangelical bullshit.
No I'm not doubting this being a thing, ive seen countless numbers of them. But lets be outraged at actual occurances, not ai bs of it. Or be outraged at the fact someone made some AI bs of this happening. If we waste energy being pissed at things that aren't real the real shit will pass us by.
This card is a real product.
https://mwtb.org/products/jesus-paid-it-all?variant=44962855518491
Check that out, that's the image they used for the Photoshop.
I get its a real product, but this isn't a real post.
Got a link to the post?
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ulxn9v/in_lieu_of_payment/
Tell me if and where you spot this "watermark" the OP left in the picture. I don't, but note that their reddit username is thedivinegemini which probably got somebody confused.
Sorry, I don't actually see the watermark, but now what stuck out to me was how perfectly angled the receipt is at 90° with perfect font. That's now a dead giveaway.
Except it isn't.
The green lines are all at 90°, perfectly parallel to the edges of the frame. The card is neither held straight, nor printed straight. The bottom of it is also slightly bowed. Two of the corners are visibly dog-eared. Hell, the hand holding it even appears to have the correct complient of fingers.
Everyone here needs to give this a rest. I don't like AI either, but these AI arguments are baseless and bordering on paranoia. These exact same cards are a real thing. All of everyone's "tells" so far are in fact not present in the picture. OP's photo is consistent with a smartphone picture taken in low light too close to the subject.
The only thing we cannot verify is if the OP's story about this is true. We will never be able to conclusively prove if someone walked out on a meal using one of these, or they simply found one in their restaurant and made up a tale about it.
I can tell you from personal experience earned in my time in the food service trenches, I absolutely had people leave things like these in lieu of tips and often people would leave them lying around the restaurant (especially the tracts with one half made look like a dollar bill) but nobody ever actually tried to "pay" for a meal with one under my direct observation.
Just for good measure I dropped this as-is into the first five AI image detectors on Google.
I left the reddit scroll arrows and all the captions in the upload. I would not be at all surprised if this is what triggered the "digitally edited" probabilities, in light of those two it really has been.
I'm walking away from this argument now because I've already expended way too much brain power on this bullshit. I thought I was a cynical bastard, but people in this thread are crazy. I have knives to write about; I can't be having with this nonsense any further.
Uh... 'Render unto ceaser that which is ceasers...?'
But what if I don't order a salad?
Caesar. Or Cæsar, because how often do you get to use æ?
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this is just slop with a ragebait caption. upengagement!
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