'Maybe the problem is you': Experienced restaurant employee roasts servers that complain about bad tips, sparking debate about what makes a good waiter

Everyone's been to a restaurant before where they had a terrible server. You saw them flirting with the hostess, loitering around the bar, and rolling their eyes when you asked them to split the bill. Not to mention, they've neglected your table for 20 minutes, while you were starving and ready to order. Restaurant goers are faced with a tough decision– to tip or not to tip? Obviously, in America, the social pressure of tipping is strong… even for the worst service of your life. But at what point is a waiter so terrible that they don't even deserve 10% of your bill? Besides, those waiters or waitresses are 100% going to be the ones who complain about their guests being bad tippers when, in fact, they are the problem.

In this case, an experienced restaurant employee weighed in on this conundrum. Any server who complains about making <20% in tips throughout the night might have a bigger problem than just bad luck with their parties. Perhaps it's time for those lazy servers to take a good hard look in the mirror. 

Scroll for the full roast on some terrible service and perhaps you can bestow some wisdom of your very own restaurant experiences. Next, read this story of a bartender who was forced to come in for his shift while battling a cold and got saved by his boss's very own mother.

'I made some yard signs... and it worked:' Small New Orleans community has huge victory against corporate Karen trying to price them out with inflated $1.16 million house flip

It's not too often these days that victory comes to small communities. With extremely wealthy people coming into "niche" neighborhoods because they're "hip," buy a house for cheap, flip it, and then sell it for thousands to millions over any other house's value in that neighborhood, it sure makes you feel like the underdogs really don't have a chance. The thing about these "niche" neighborhoods is that they have families who have lived there for generations. They're "hip" because it's people who work hard and take pride in the home they earned. These neighborhoods are usually a beautiful hodgepodge of artists, blue collar workers, and everything in-between. The neighbors in these small communities are tight because they have to be in an area where dollar signs seem to win over humanity. But not this time! 

A recent small town in New Orleans banded together to stop a corporate Karen. This Karen is a house flipper from out of town. She bout her home for under $400k and "flipped it." The neighbors have no problem in that, it was how much this Karen was trying to sell the house for, $1.16 million, that truly felt like a slap to the face of the community. The neighbors, many who have been there for decades would have never been able to afford a home for $1.16 million. Wealthy privilege people think: "What? It brings the value of your house up so you can sell it for more when you move!" But this community bought their homes with the intention of living out the rest of their lives there and if the property taxes go above and beyond anything they can afford, that forces them out of their beloved neighborhood. Because, ya know, sometimes it's about creating a home and a community and not trying to sell, sell, sell... 

So, one angry neighbor decided to make some yard signs calling out this corporate Karen. The locals, called "rats", put these signs up all over their neighborhood. It featured two rats, a photo of the house that said "don't buy this house" and then "$1.16 million! Don't price us out of our neighborhood!" The person who made the signs bought the house over a decade ago and her property taxes then were only $900. Today they have already inflated to over $5k. If this house sells for that asking price, she will no longer be able to afford that property tax.

Luckily, the recent update says that the status of the listing was withdrawn! Who knows what that means the corporate Karen will do next, but for now, it is a win for this small but strong community and we are more than happy to celebrate that!

'This is what happens when you text and run...': 30+ Gym-going goofballs who are working out the wrong way

There are rules at the gym, but you wouldn't know it by the way these people tried to work out. 

Let me tell you a story. The year was 2011, and a brand new Planet Fitness opened up in my area. It was so cheap back then that even as high schoolers, my friends and I could pay monthly to go work out. Gym class? Nah, we couldn't be bothered. We felt like we were adults, and we wanted to work out like them. It didn't matter that we didn't know how to use any of the machines; we'll figure it out as we go, we thought. 

However, what we didn't plan for was that basically every young adult and high schooler in the area had the exact same plan. They were new to the gym too, and you could count on hearing the Lunk Alarm blaring a few times an hour. You could always tell if someone had wiped off their machine or left their sweaty leg prints behind for the next person. For the first few months after this new gym opened, it was pandemonium. High schoolers were trying to lift hundreds of pounds to impress their friends, things got stolen from the locker rooms, and all the people who got tanning included in their plan turned bright orange. A lot of shenanigans went down! It was a learning process for all, and at times, it looked a lot like these photos below. 

Check out these gym-goers who really need a refresher on how to use the machines. Then, check out this update to this employee who told her boss, "Guess I'm not a team player." 

'My husband knows I'm on here': 20+ Reasons to Swipe Left on Dating Apps

We know all too well at this point that people put crazy things on their dating app profiles. Sometimes, they are bizarre confessions that should wait till at least a third or fourth date. Sometimes, they are strangely hostile and limiting remarks about what they're looking for on the app. And sometimes, they are such boring stock answers to questions that you wonder if this person is even real. Who knows? Maybe they are a bot. And bots, folks, are an immediate "swipe left."

 

In addition to bots, we have collected the following list of reasons people have swiped left immediately based on this r/AskReddit thread. We'll give you a little preview and say that the list includes folks who are looking for a third, folks who are "just looking for friends," and folks who have anything to say about their ability to quote The Office or their taste for pineapple on pizza. 

 

Keep scrolling below for the full list. For more content like this, here is a compilation of the top Karen stories of the week! 

'He 100% agreed': Employee snaps on boss who contacts him during family leave

"My boss was the kind of boss that every employee hates," this employee wrote as they shared what happened when they tried to take family leave. When you work at a small company like this person did, you quickly become close with your coworkers and bosses. If there are only five people at the business, like this one, it also can put more pressure on you as an employee. 

Some places try to play that whole "we're a family" card, but they almost never mean it. You can't exactly fire your own family, but your boss would have no problem with it. When places say that, what they mean is that they expect complete loyalty from you and they want you becoming emotionally invested in the wellbeing of the company. But when it's time to return the favor, the company is suddenly all business. 

This person tried to give their boss a ton of warning that they were going to be taking paid leave when their son was born. The employee, u/Tautochrone1, writes that instead of taking five weeks of time off, they could have taken eight weeks. But due to their loyalty to the company, the OP chose five weeks so that the company wouldn't be short-staffed longer than necessary. With such a valuable employee, this company still blew their shot at being a good employer, and instead decided to bother the OP until they couldn't take it any more. 

Next, this cashier had a hilariously scathing retort to a customer who was demanding that she wanted to use out of date coupons. 

‘Everyone knew it was ridiculous’: Preschool teacher reluctantly complies with boss's outrageous bathroom break schedule after a student wets themselves; gets justified when the entire school backs her up

As every teacher knows, children can be messy. When kiddos are only half potty-trained and still learning how to be real people, preschool teachers are oftentimes the adult-figures who know exactly what kind of messes these tiny humans can make. In this case, OP knew all too well that preschoolers can make mistakes– sometimes just outside the bathroom. But when one of her students accidentally wet themselves despite the teacher's rigorous potty-break schedule, OP's boss lost it. 

Most child caregivers have the decorum to have adult conversations away from the listening ears of the little ones, but for OP, her boss came charging into her classroom, screaming and raving about her poor bathroom break scheduling and demanding an even more ridiculous bathroom rhythm to avoid more 'messes'. Clearly on a power trip, the boss yelled at OP right in front of the kids, fueling a motherly rage inside the preschool teacher that could only be released with malicious compliance. 

Scroll for the full tale of how this teacher got the best of her boss by doing exactly what she asked– and getting the whole school to back her up. Next up, read about this bartender who called in sick but was dragged into work anyways, only to be saved by an unlikely Karen and the boss's very own mother. 

'My job offer has been withdrawn': Candidate loses job after trying to negotiate offer

The irony of withdrawing a candidate's job offer for a position on your company's contracting team—just because they wanted to negotiate their contract—is almost too much. One might expect that it would be taken as a good sign that the candidate is willing to have uncomfortable conversations and negotiate terms… since that's kind of exactly what they're going to be doing for your company.