Waitress Fired For Complaining About Tip On Facebook

22-year-old Ashley Johnson lost her job after she complained about a poor tip on Facebook. She felt the $5 tip from a couple who had sat in her section for 3 hours was a joke, and wrote about it on the social networking site. From the article: "Brixx officials told Johnson a couple of days later that she was being fired because she violated a company policy banning workers from speaking disparagingly about customers and casting the restaurant in a bad light on a social network." Silly Ashley, as everyone who has worked in a restaurant can tell you, complaining on Facebook isn't the answer. If you want to get back at bad customers you overcharge them, or put something in their food.

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[SeNtM]

Because it is so ingrained. If I left nothing, I would appear like a tourist (I am in Orlando after all). By leaving a single dollar, I believe I sent her a message.

Australia is an entirely different animal, especially in regard to minimum wage (I believe you call it fair-pay). The rate exchange for AUD/USD is something like 1:0.85. And after conversion, your minimum-wage (14.31AUD) is over twice that of the US (7.25USD).

However, this US minimum-wage requirements don't apply to "tipped" employees. They get a special minimum wage of 4.19USD (4.89AUD). And restaurants do not pay waiters/waitresses over minimum...ever.

But you are right, in the recent years even I have become amazed at the gall of some businesses/people. You can find tip jars at fast-food restaurants, coffee shops...I think I even remember seeing one at a gas-station recently. I will reward someone for service if they do a good job, but I refuse to put a single cent in the tip jar of a cashier that handed me a hamburger...and who wasn't even the one to throw the burger patty in the microwave before placing it between two stale peices of bread to warm under a heat lamp for 10 minutes before I even placed the order.

Alright, I'm joking here...the burger was likely under the heat lamp for 30 minutes before I ordered.