r/antiwork - Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.

[byron]

it's not being "stolen" it's "this is probably fraud"

This seems pretty cut-and-dry to me. The tip is not paid to the restaurant, it's paid to the server. The restaurant has a duty to transfer that money from the customer to the server.

"We don't want to deal with chargebacks" is not the server's problem. If they wanted to hold the money for a reasonable amount of time in order to confirm there's no chargeback, that'd be fine. But the restaurant doesn't have the right to say "nah, we're not even gonna try"

The server doesn't even need a lawyer, she just needs a copy of the receipt. Go to small claims court. Let the restaurant tell a judge, "we just didn't feel like trying to run this credit card." The judge is going to say, "that's fine, but you owe the server $2500"

 

[TaimuRadiu]

The server doesn't even need a lawyer, she just needs a copy of the receipt. Go to small claims court. Let the restaurant tell a judge, "we just didn't feel like trying to run this credit card." The judge is going to say, "that's fine, but you owe the server $2500"

most servers can't afford to lose employment nor can they take their employers to court

and the establishment *will* fire her if she tried to pull that shit

 

[SoleniyKraut]

"...people don't need to work, society needs work to be done to function"

He thought he said something profound here.

Humans eventually come together into groups and start managing responsibilities between each other for sustainable survival. There's no society without humans, it's not some transcendent boogeyman that controls one's life - it's a product of human nature.

 

[Wallace]

"...people don't need to work, society needs work to be done to function"

None of these spergs has ambitions to do anything besides play video games, smoke weed, and masturbate. If they got on UBI or some other kind of welfare, they wouldn't spend their new free time making art or reading great works of literature, they would just play more video games, smoke more weed, and beat their girldicks like it owed them money. Anything to keep from looking inside inside of themselves and seeing that empty void.

 

[AnOminous]

most servers can't afford to lose employment nor can they take their employers to court

and the establishment *will* fire her if she tried to pull that shit

And then, depending on the situation, they can get sued for wrongful termination. Employment at will (i.e. either party can quit or fire any time for NEARLY any reason) is a thing, but retaliation for seeking a legal remedy is usually unlawful.

This is why you get a lawyer, though, before you pull a stunt like this. Even if you can, conceivably, turn a profit out of getting fucked over like this, it isn't just the current job you have to worry about. Future employers will also be concerned about hiring a litigious employee who sued their last employer.

Still, I'd say just quit a job like this.

 

[SoleniyKraut]

None of these spergs has ambitions to do anything besides play video games, smoke weed, and masturbate. If they got on UBI or some other kind of welfare, they wouldn't spend their new free time making art or reading great works of literature, they would just play more video games, smoke more weed, and beat their girldicks like it owed them money. Anything to keep from looking inside inside of themselves and seeing that empty void.

Obviously. You can tell they've lived a sheltered life, they don't even understand why work is needed for everyone's benefit. They're essentially parasites.

 

[harbringer883]

This seems pretty cut-and-dry to me. The tip is not paid to the restaurant, it's paid to the server. The restaurant has a duty to transfer that money from the customer to the server.

"We don't want to deal with chargebacks" is not the server's problem. If they wanted to hold the money for a reasonable amount of time in order to confirm there's no chargeback, that'd be fine. But the restaurant doesn't have the right to say "nah, we're not even gonna try"

The server doesn't even need a lawyer, she just needs a copy of the receipt. Go to small claims court. Let the restaurant tell a judge, "we just didn't feel like trying to run this credit card." The judge is going to say, "that's fine, but you owe the server $2500"

Yeah, this is a open and shut case.

 

[Monoxide_Void]

Based ceo.

 

[Berrakh]

It's got worse in recent years ever since The Bear started streaming because people are attracted to the hip, edgy chaos and miss the parts about non-stop stress, everyone exhausted on Xanax, hazing, no social life and constant risk of unemployment.

Bourdain’s book was like this— the content was about how awful kitchens are but, like Upton Sinclair, he still missed the mark somehow.

My favorite bit of The Bear is how the black workers are sensible and just want to cook while Little Chef Hitler is running around with his tattoos and bad attitude.

 

[AnOminous]

Bourdain’s book was like this— the content was about how awful kitchens are but, like Upton Sinclair, he still missed the mark somehow.

Only did a little bit of this while I was in that 20s phase where most people probably had a series of shitshow jobs in retail, food and other horrors, but it seemed like anyone in food service was constantly on cocaine and working insane overtime to afford the cocaine they needed to work insane overtime.

My favorite was a pizza place where the main guy actually running the kitchen was completely batshit crazy and would scream at the owner and throw shit at him and quit at the end of every other night (slight exaggeration but once a week definitely) but made such good pizza that they put up with his shit and he just showed up the next day like it hadn't happened.

 

[Berrakh]

My favorite was a pizza place where the main guy actually running the kitchen was completely batshit crazy and would scream at the owner and throw shit at him and quit at the end of every other night (slight exaggeration but once a week definitely) but made such good pizza that they put up with his shit and he just showed up the next day like it hadn't happened

If it was a busy pizza place he was on meth.

 

[AnOminous]

If it was a busy pizza place he was on meth.

Definitely coke, I saw it. Shared it even.

 

[Star Platinum]

None of these spergs has ambitions to do anything besides play video games, smoke weed, and masturbate. If they got on UBI or some other kind of welfare, they wouldn't spend their new free time making art or reading great works of literature, they would just play more video games, smoke more weed, and beat their girldicks like it owed them money. Anything to keep from looking inside inside of themselves and seeing that empty void.

based

 

[Beggamania]

Look, it's alright to hate your job - a lot of the time the job we do sucks. And it's alright to sometimes want to just Sit on Jamaican beach, roll a blunt, and smile your widest smile. But it's actually ridiculous how people don't understand the concept of "shit don't change before you get up and wash your ass, nigga". You can dislike job, and want to be born in rich family, travel around the world, doing your dream gigs like art, rocking a music band on tour and not shower for week because of traveling, or running away into Himalayas. But you cant be adult and and expect to just have all those things on a whim. I also want to find a small little million dollar wallet whilst walking on thw streets, but man, what kind of dunce expects for a work AS A WHOLE to disappear??

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

From WorkReform, the spinoff:

I work for the Dutch branch of a large US tech company. We recently got a new middle-manager based in New York. He seemed like a nice guy at first, but it turns out he is totally obsessed with "hustle culture".

Last week, we had a 1-on-1 meeting where he told me he was "concerned" about my dedication to the team. He listed his grievances quite clearly. He didn't like that my Slack status goes offline at 5:01 PM every single day. He was annoyed that I didn't reply to an email he sent on Saturday morning until Monday at 9:00 AM, and he was especially frustrated that I refused to join a "team bonding" Zoom call that was scheduled for 7 PM my time, which is 1 PM his time.

He gave me the usual speech about how "in this company, we go the extra mile" and that if I want to grow, I need to be more available.

I had to give him a bit of a reality check. I looked him in the eye over Zoom and told him that in the Netherlands, if you can't finish your work by 5 PM, it doesn't mean you are dedicated. It means you are inefficient or understaffed. I told him I am neither.

I also reminded him that contacting me outside of working hours for non-emergencies is actually frowned upon here, and that my contract is for 40 hours, not "40 hours plus nights and weekends".

He tried to threaten me with a Performance Improvement Plan. I immediately forwarded the email to our local Dutch HR representative. She literally laughed when she read it and told me to ignore him. She said she would have a "chat" with him about local labor laws.

Since then, he hasn't sent a single email after 5 PM. I honestly feel bad fro you guys in the US. The fact that you have to apologize for having a life outside of work is insane to us.

Sources:

https://bsky.app/profile/tuc.org.uk/post/3mboethghlc2v

https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/1pwzyqn/my_american_manager_tried_to_write_me_up_for_lack/

 

[teriyakiburns]

From WorkReform, the spinoff:

The dutchman is entirely in the right. "hustle culture" idiots are the mirror image of antiworkists; both have centred their entire identity around their relationship to work, with the only difference being one takes pride in never working while the other takes pride in never stopping. They get ego gratification from drawing everyone's focus to their beliefs. It's like vegans and "carnivore diet" people, or pothead hippies and straight-edgers. Two side of the same coin, each masturbating about how much better they are than everyone else.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

My favorite was a pizza place where the main guy actually running the kitchen was completely batshit crazy and would scream at the owner and throw shit at him and quit at the end of every other night (slight exaggeration but once a week definitely) but made such good pizza that they put up with his shit and he just showed up the next day like it hadn't happened.

There was a dishwasher at a fine dining restaurant I worked at that pulled this shit with the Maitre D' a lot. He was a drunk ex-con nigger and the Maitre sniffled coke out of an afrin sprsy bottle all night. They went outside with it in the lot a couple of times. The rest of us thought Spider the dishwasher was hilarious and some of them would sneak him the airplane bottles of really bad red wine the bar had. Manischewitz , mostly. Real sweetened rotgut. You could feel your liver curling up just looking at it.

 

[AnOminous]

Manischewitz , mostly. Real sweetened rotgut. You could feel your liver curling up just looking at it.

I like Jewish foods in general, and some kosher wines are actually pretty good, too, but Manischewitz is some of the vilest shit imaginable. You'd be better off drinking Boone's Farm or MD 20/20 than that awful excuse for wine.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

I like Jewish foods in general, and some kosher wines are actually pretty good, too, but Manischewitz is some of the vilest shit imaginable. You'd be better off drinking Boone's Farm or MD 20/20 than that awful excuse for wine.

Agreed, but Spider used to down terlet wine in any number of carceral locations. He wasn't picky.