People Suck.

[Animae]

A customer stole about 18 dollars from our tip jar today. I didn't notice it was missing until I went to drop them in the safe at the end of the night, and the bills that should have been on the bottom of the container was gone.

Merry Christmas

[Gravekeeper]

Ugh, that's bottom feedingly low. ><

Only thing lower is stealing from a charity box.

On the upside, PeopleSuck.com sounds like a great idea for a sister site....

[rerant]

This pisses me off to no end. People are constantly sticking their mitts in the tip jar at my work, treating it as a Take a Penny/Leave a Penny jar.
NO!
We've tried to come up with different ways to keep people's mitts outta there, such as a jar with a plastic lid with only a slot cut out of the top, but the new owner won't let us do it.
Why? "Because it doesn't look nice."
Well it doesn't exactly feel nice when people steal from us, and it makes us not even care about work.
Why give a shit if people are just going to rip us off?

This is why I'm thankful for the ridiculous Canadian currency. Having all those extra coins may be a pain, but taking a dollar from us means you're making noise so I WILL hear you when you try to paw some extra coinage from us.

[Getoutofmylobby]

Our cheap ass manager somehow put his greed aside long enough to let a charity place one of those cardboard quarter donation stands on our front desk. It was for a local kid who had leukemia. Usually he agrees and then throws whatever the charity leaves away.

Not sure if they're popular in other areas but they have individual slots for quarters. Actually it seems like a pretty inefficient way of collecting donations to me.

Anyhow, I remember one customer who checked in late one night, a well off looking middle aged asshole salesman type who insisted on paying cash, coming up a few cents short and instead of breaking a larger bill he decided to "borrow" two quarters from the leukemia kid. He just ripped them off the cardboard and gave them to me. He even said something like "Thanks alot Shane!" to the cardboard stand.

After he left i replaced the quarters. I'm hoping he was drunk. People aren't that awful.. are they?

[rerant]

After he left i replaced the quarters. I'm hoping he was drunk. People aren't that awful.. are they?

Sadly they are.

I had an instance similar to this one. Some guy was a few cents short of him having enough change so that his change would come up even (so like he needed 6 cents to get an even 50 cents back) and he took it from my tip jar and said with a chuckle, "Har har, thanks!"
When I pulled his change from the register I dropped it right in the tip cup and said, "Har har, no, thank you."

We played a few seconds of the staring game before he huffed and walked away.

[Gwen_Goth]

I was gonna post this as part of my first ever Uber thread; but i can't resist

a few years ago when i worked in a different cafe from where i am now, i was covering the sunday shift.

this meant that i was serving alone. this isn't noramally a problem, i still serve fast and am polite.

a large family cam up and ordered a lot of drinks to go; because of the layout of the cafe, this meant that i had my back turned to them for a while. i served them they let, all well and good.

It wasn't until a few customers later that i realised what had happened.

they had taken the tips. All of them. and not only that; they took the tips bowl aswell!

WTF...

[Imogene]

Get a bottle with a small mouth...? Just a thought for protecting the tips... anyone who tries to get into it will be heard, then...

[bainsidhe]

Juwl has a good point. What about a carafe, like what restaurant use for juice or something similar? Even some kind of glass jug with a narrow top? And I'm all for gluing the son of a gun to the table, too.

[Mordecai]

Sadly they are.

I had an instance similar to this one. Some guy was a few cents short of him having enough change so that his change would come up even (so like he needed 6 cents to get an even 50 cents back) and he took it from my tip jar and said with a chuckle, "Har har, thanks!"
When I pulled his change from the register I dropped it right in the tip cup and said, "Har har, no, thank you."

We played a few seconds of the staring game before he huffed and walked away.

Awesome.

[SG15Z]

On the upside, PeopleSuck.com sounds like a great idea for a sister site....

Well unfortunately that url is already taken! But it was a good idea

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Ugh, that's bottom feedingly low. ><

Only thing lower is stealing from a charity box.

On the upside, PeopleSuck.com sounds like a great idea for a sister site....

There used to be several sister sites back when I first joined and the site was under the original ownership. Those sites included: Managers Suck and Patients Suck but the were eventually merged into the main site.

*goes back to rocking chair and resumes the counting of gray hairs*

[ADoyle90815]

Ugh, that's bottom feedingly low. ><

Only thing lower is stealing from a charity box.

I've heard of the worst type of bottom feeders stealing the Salvation Army kettles in my area.

[Animae]

If i like you, and you have been nice, I have no problem reaching in a pulling out up to 25 cents out of my tip jar to help you out.

But if you just stick your hand in there, without even asking if its ok with me, I will tell you that it is my tip jar, not a take a penny leave a penny, and it stealing.

I've actually gotten into arguments with SCs about this saying "well would you take a dollar off the table at a restaurant? Then don't take it out of my jar".


it just sucks, because that 40$ extra a week helps to pay my rent and get me food.

[PepperElf]

reminds me of ... just about every Tim Horton's here. They're not allowed to take tips, but they do have a little donation box for some children's medical charity thingy. It's a clear plexiglass box with a small slit in the top. So it's easy to donate to it, and impossible to steal from it.

... wish they could do that to your tip jars. Cos... hell if the Boss doesn't want you to do that and your tips get stolen, then he/she should be responsible and replace the stolen money.

[Animae]

reminds me of ... just about every Tim Horton's here. They're not allowed to take tips, but they do have a little donation box for some children's medical charity thingy. It's a clear plexiglass box with a small slit in the top. So it's easy to donate to it, and impossible to steal from it.

... wish they could do that to your tip jars. Cos... hell if the Boss doesn't want you to do that and your tips get stolen, then he/she should be responsible and replace the stolen money.

well my manager is pretty good at defending me when I bitch out the customers for sticking their fingers in my jar.

However I work for the bucks, so my boss is howard and he could give two craps about our tip jar as long as the asshole who took it likes his over priced cup of my sanity.

oooo I think I got a little angry there....