Applebee's Waitress Canned After Posting Pastor's Receipt

[scoutie]

I used to be a server in college and during my first few years of teaching.

I made $2.14 an hour.

I was taxed on the food and drink I "sold", so there were many weeks where my paychecks would be $0. I depended on tips to live.

Once, somebody left me a pamphlet "What Would Jesus Do" instead of a tip. It cost me money to wait on that table.

The pastor was classless and ridiculous, and cost somebody a job.

If you can't afford to tip, please go to a drive-through fast food restaurant.

 

[Jennasis]

Isn't Church all about forgiveness and love??? What a prime example to live by.

I'd consider the Church to look into this as well, see if the Pastor's action is in line with their policy...

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As it's a 15 member micro-church, I don't think that's gonna help. I'm also inclined to believe that her "parishioners" probably were in on the snub, as they were part of her group that night at the restaurant. I'm sure she told them, they all discussed it, had a good laugh about it, patted her on the back for her "cleverness" etc. And as another poster pointed out...who is she tithing to? A tithe is 10% of your total income that you give to your church. Bell IS her church so she's tithing her income (from the church) right back to herself.

 

[denisenh]

rots to lose your job over poor judgement.

if this is really the pastor she seems like a real pistol..... hah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-bhKg7cvA

 

[badblackpug]

I'm going to try to answer this without breaking the "no religion" rule.

I do not believe she left cash as a tip. If she had left cash she wouldn't have left that snotty note, and she said that because it is impossible to prove that she didn't leave it. She would have just drawn a line through the tip section, or she would have written "cash." She was part of a party of 15, the 18% gratuity is automatically added by the restaurant NOT the server. It is well documented everywhere that that is the restaurant's policy.

She wanted to brag and seem important because she wrote "pastor" on the receipt. I know no-one who writes their professional title on their credit card receipts.

She is sorry that she got caught, she is not sorry about what she did. This was not a "lapse in judgement" this was a well thought out plan. To the point of leaving a note and making sure that the server knew she was a pastor. A lapse in judgement would have been forgetting the tip.

She is the pastor of a 15 person congregation that meets in a storefront church which she started. Her 10%? She "gives" it to herself.

She called the restaurant demanded the firing of everyone, what happened to "turn the other cheek?"

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I wonder if the woman ever thought that if she wanted the waitress to give 10% of her income to whatever cause that she should not only have left the 18% tip, plus an extra 1.8% of the bill (10% of the tip) so the waitress could indeed give said 10%?

 

[nd5056]

As it's a 15 member micro-church...

You're right on with your comment.

That got me thinking, perhaps they conducted their whatever "ceremony" they do, for the number of people in that table and the amount of $ they spend, it was probably just water and wine they needed for their mass, perhaps even the bread was free?

Just can't help to be sarcastic, being greedy is bad, but to demand everyone to get fired? Perhaps She has mistaken WHO the God is???

 

[furb & dez]

I'm going to try to answer this without breaking the "no religion" rule.

I do not believe she left cash as a tip. If she had left cash she wouldn't have left that snotty note, and she said that because it is impossible to prove that she didn't leave it. She would have just drawn a line through the tip section, or she would have written "cash." She was part of a party of 15, the 18% gratuity is automatically added by the restaurant NOT the server. It is well documented everywhere that that is the restaurant's policy.

She wanted to brag and seem important because she wrote "pastor" on the receipt. I know no-one who writes their professional title on their credit card receipts.

She is sorry that she got caught, she is not sorry about what she did. This was not a "lapse in judgement" this was a well thought out plan. To the point of leaving a note and making sure that the server knew she was a pastor. A lapse in judgement would have been forgetting the tip.

She is the pastor of a 15 person congregation that meets in a storefront church which she started. Her 10%? She "gives" it to herself.

She called the restaurant demanded the firing of everyone, what happened to "turn the other cheek?"

If you got every person who claimed to "believe" and actually "acted" in the manner in which they stated they "believed"...

...you'd have a pretty darn empty stadium.

 

[Heidict]

I noticed she never apologized for her remark or getting the waitress fired. All I have been able to find is that she not only wanted to the waitress fired but others in that store as well.

She runs off at the mouth about how she is a pastor and this has hurt her, but not once does she stopped to think about forgiveness or kindness to this waitress. Not before, when she refused to tip and not after. That says loads about her character. As a Christian, I would expect more out of my pastor and would be disappointed enough in him to leave his church if he did something like that. Not one thing she did showed Christian values or love.


She deserves to be embarrassed for this. Maybe she should have thought a bit more before writing something like that. It got called to the light and now she has to deal with the repercussions of it.

 

[loveshak22]

She's a "Pastor" at her 15 member church, according to the article on the smoking gun. And she obviously lied about leaving cash, because no one would write that they didn't agree with tipping more than you tip god and then leave a tip.

She's a jerk.

Agree! She's a jerk plain and simple! If she truly believes servers shouldn't get tipped more than God you'd think she'd be proud her receipt was made public...tell the world, right!

However, it shows what an idiot she is because like others have pointed out, 10% of your income is not the same as 18% on your $30 Applebee's meal!

 

[Schminston-Mo]

The server should not have posted the receipt due to privacy and identity theft potential

Now I hope i'm not going too far down the religion path, but I see the pastor's logic as flawed.

I assume her religion would state that all things comes from God.
I also believe she would say that the pastor and her congregation serve God.

So, God gives her everything and she gives him 10% "change"

In actuality God tipped her a hefty 90% for pretty poor service (based on the way she is acting in this situation)

 

[SaraJayne]

Or you bring it up to the church board or committee responsible for the pastor and suggest he possibly apologize or even "move on".

Since she is a self-proclaimed "pastor" of a 15 member church, I really don't think there is a church board or committee.

 

[MissMichigan]

I don't recall where I saw it, but the first I heard of this story said she had come in with a group of children, so if that's true I doubt any of them left cash on the table. It also stated that they were a "difficult" table for reasons such as ordering off menu, demanding substitutions, sending orders back, asking for everyone (10+ people) to have their own check but then wanting them all paid with the same card, and keeping the server past her shift.

I don't know how much of that is true, but if it is it certainly paints a picture of the attitude shown by the pastor. Especially if it's also true that she came back "and demanded that everyone in the restaurant be fired" like some articles are stating.

I don't think religion has anything to do with this at all. I think someone felt entitled and "special", then cried fowl when she got called out on it. Should the server have posted the pic? Nope. But i'm not sure firing her was the appropriate response either.

 

[jgh]

Personally, I see both parties at fault.

The pastor was a jerk and the employee shouldn't have posted the reciept online.

 

[nd5056]

...As posted originally on Reddit’s Atheist page, the image contained the customer’s full signature. Chelsea says she didn’t think to edit that out because she had assumed the name was illegible...

This is the only thing an employee is guilty of.

It's like adding insult to the injury when you're expected to be quiet when you're being bullied by somebody. What kind of example are we setting for our kids that hear about this story???

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[powellrj]

I don't recall where I saw it, but the first I heard of this story said she had come in with a group of children, so if that's true I doubt any of them left cash on the table. It also stated that they were a "difficult" table for reasons such as ordering off menu, demanding substitutions, sending orders back, asking for everyone (10+ people) to have their own check but then wanting them all paid with the same card, and keeping the server past her shift.

That is pretty much how I first read it too, except I read she had 20 in her group and was trying to get around the 8+ rule by asking for everyone to have their own check but she was going to pay. I also read they only had dessert, so who knows what actually did happen. I know if my minister behaved like that in public, I would no longer be attending that church.

 

[Jennasis]

The server who was fired wasn't the one who served the pastor. The server who served the tabled showed the receipt to a fellow server and the other server took a picture pf it and posted it. It was the second server who was fired for posting the image. She probably should have doctored the pic to remove any info such as credit card number etc.

 

[klacey1]

I don't recall where I saw it, but the first I heard of this story said she had come in with a group of children, so if that's true I doubt any of them left cash on the table. It also stated that they were a "difficult" table for reasons such as ordering off menu, demanding substitutions, sending orders back, asking for everyone (10+ people) to have their own check but then wanting them all paid with the same card, and keeping the server past her shift.

OP, the $34 was NOT the total of the bill. The pastor requested the bill be split many difference ways in attempts to circumvent the 18% rule.

The pastor is a jerk, plain and simple. You're embarrassed that this story got out? Then don't do jerky things.

 

[Albort]

The server who was fired wasn't the one who served the pastor. The server who served the tabled showed the receipt to a fellow server and the other server took a picture pf it and posted it. It was the second server who was fired for posting the image. She probably should have doctored the pic to remove any info such as credit card number etc.

i think i found the post on reddit, all it shows is a partial signature, no credit card info...
image: http://i.imgur.com/WNhIP9C.jpg?1
reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/17i382/my_mistake_sir_im_sure_jesus_will_pay_for_my_rent/

i think that was the one...
if i were the waitress/waiter, id think this was some kind of joke...

 

[Mickey'snewestfan]

The server who was fired wasn't the one who served the pastor. The server who served the tabled showed the receipt to a fellow server and the other server took a picture pf it and posted it. It was the second server who was fired for posting the image. She probably should have doctored the pic to remove any info such as credit card number etc.

I would not be comfortable with a server photographing my credit card number and/or signature for any reason. While I'll say again that I think this pastor was a (insert word that won't get past the censors), I also think that photographing credit card receipts should be a fireable offense.

 

[Princess Dolly]

There was no credit card info. And the photo has now been edited to show a partial signature. The whole signature was there when first posted.

I think the "pastor" is an *** and I think the server could have been reprimanded without being fired.

Those who are worried about signature...how many letters, documents and other things have you signed over the years and have no control over? You have no idea who has seen your signature or what they have done with it. ETA: now that I am thinking of it, in Florida public records with signatures are readily accessible over the internet by anyone. Just check local Clerk of Court sites and even some state sites.