<p>So what do you think- should the waitress have been fired? What do you think about the customers tipping remark? How about her demand that everyone working that night be fired?</p>
<p>What are you talking about? If there is a story, can you explain or better yet put it in the thread title?</p>
<p>Sorry- I thought the story was all over. A St Louis Applebee’s fired a waitress that posted a receipt on Reddit. The customer, a pastor, wrote on the receipt that god only gets 10% so why should you get 18%. When the pastor was told the receipt was on-line she claimed it was because she was having a bad day or something to that effect. She requested everyone working that night be fired. (according to Gawker).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/fired-applebees-waitress-needs-tips[/url]”>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/fired-applebees-waitress-needs-tips</a></p>
<p>wrong of waitress to post online, but the pastor–ugh. which part of “parties of 6 or more will be charged 18%…” doesn’t she get???</p>
<p>I do feel for Applebee’s because they are in a no win situation. Companies are going to have to be clear on what can be done on social media by their employees.</p>
<p>That said- I do not want the waitress fired.</p>
<p>tom…I agree-- Applebee’s no win.
Prime example of being careful about what you post on web, because once it’s on there, it will live forever…</p>
<p>If I had to lay odds, the waitress will come out ok…</p>
<p>The waitress said that the company handbook had no specifications about this. I don’t think she should be fired. But that’s Applebee’s–which apparently serves frozen pre-made meals–i can do that at home for much less money!</p>
<p>Regardless, the actions of the pastor seem highly unChristian to me, and not paying the required 18% seems like theft of services, as well, since it’s indicated ahead of time.</p>
<p>Nah. I don’t think Applebees was in a hard position. The server’s conduct really didn’t rise to the level of being obnoxious, so they should have backed up the waitress. It’s the pastor who deserves a black eye, or a figurative punch in the nose.</p>
<p>I think companies are going to have to be clear that employees can not post anything identifying the employer because social media is so hard to control. I think they will also have to be very public with that stand.</p>
<p>I think the pastor is morally bankrupt and cheap.</p>
<p>How could a party of eight have a bill for only $34.93? Of course, it’s their right to come in and just have coffee, but I feel for the server. We have a restaurant worker in the family and I occasionally hear stories about groups who take over a server’s table for the night and order nothing but glasses of water and a bowl of chips. </p>
<p>I’ll bet the waitress in the Applebees story is hired quickly by another organization. Despite the misstep of posting the receipt, she seems smart and level-headed, and she writes well.</p>
<p>I haven’t been to an AppleBees in many, many years but there were people that came in for dessert and coffee and AppleBees, I think, encouraged that. They had a dessert menu in the center stand with just dessert items.</p>
<p>My company has a very detailed and long policy on social media. It’s long because the company uses social media widely so it has to state what can and can’t be done by people that are essentially authorized to state the company’s position. Every company above a certain size should have a policy and every employee should use common sense in dealing with privacy.</p>
<p>I have to take courses in ethics, confidentiality, insider trading, bribery, and other areas every two years. I assume that this is pretty standard stuff in the corporate world. Maybe Applebees should beef up their corporate training.</p>
<p>I think the customer was clearly obnoxious, and wrong to have written what she did, pastor or not, and honestly, I’m not sorry that she’s received the negative attention that she has. However, the server should have known better than to post that picture online. And, yes, I get that many kids/young adults feel that it’s perfectly acceptable to post anything and everything online but it’s a good lesson to learn that it’s not.</p>
<p>Mary that was not the entire bill. The bill came to over $200. It was a party of 20</p>
<p>Wrong for waitress to post it online but
That pastor was really something.</p>
<p>I’ve read conflicting statements: One, that the bill was over $200 and this was the pastor’s individual check and two, that the group just ordered appetizers so bill was $34.
Either way, menu clearly states large groups will be charged 18% gratuity…</p>
<p>I think the pastor is an idiot. I also think the server should be fired and am amazed that the Applebee’s handbook doesn’t prohibit photoing or otherwise reproducing customer’s signature, credit cards or other personal info, for any intent whatsoever.</p>
<p>It wasn’t the server who got fired. It was another waitress that the server had shown the receipt to and who took a pic and posted it. </p>
<p>Don’t think the person who posted it should have been fired. </p>
<p>The Pastor deserves the negative backlash she is getting. </p>
<p>Recent article in NYT regarding what employers policies can be regarding what employees post on social media. </p>
<p><a href=“Employers’ Social Media Policies Come Under Regulatory Scrutiny - The New York Times”>Employers’ Social Media Policies Come Under Regulatory Scrutiny - The New York Times;
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<p>Amen. Petty too.</p>
<p>Sorry to be clear, I meant I think the server who photographed and posted should be fired, not the original one.</p>
<p>Reading that article, I think that if the server had posted something about seeking fair wages and written up a description of the receipt, in the context of explaining why expecting servers to rely on tips alone is unfair, it would be protected. I don’t think the actual photograph of the receipt would be protected.</p>
<p>If there was no policy against posting the receipt in the corporate handbook, then the waitress who posted that receipt shouldn’t have been fired. </p>
<p>Especially considering how if the pastor was so concerned about her atrociously nasty behavior being revealed to the public, she had an easy alternative by not acting in the way she did in the first place. As they say…a picture is worth a thousand words. </p>
<p>Considering the pastor’s behavior, what the waitress did in posting the receipt was actually a public service to show this pastor’s nasty character in how she treats restaurant waitstaff. Especially considering the photos of said receipt had no clearly identifying marks. Pastor was only outed when one friend of a member of the pastor’s party knew who it was and word got around.</p>
<p>Pastor’s nastiness was furthered when reports came out that she tried to have the entire waitstaff in the time her party was at the Applebee’s fired. While she tried to sound apologetic, her actions here reveal that she’s really angry about having her nasty character revealed for all to see.</p>