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Imagine working as a server at a restaurant. If a customer left you a big tip, it might make your day.

What would you do if your supervisor claimed the customer actually left the tip for her instead of for you? Would you brush it off and let her keep the tip or try to find a way to prove the supervisor wrong?

In this story, one server is in this situation, and she’s so furious she can’t sleep.

Keep reading for the whole story.

Supervisor stole tip left for me on credit card

At my restaurant customers go up to the counter to pay for their bill.

Whoever is around or on the bar will charge them and then are supposed to put the name of whoever served the table for tips.

I got a $40 tip from a table of two that I chatted with, built a rapport with and gave exceptional service to.

The supervisor apparently wrote her own name on the bill.

I realised she took credit for my tip after the fact as it was given in debit so she put her name on it but it was in the cash register and there was no way for me to prove it afterwards.

I’m fuming.

But also she’s a supervisor/manager. Makes the schedule/roster for FOH every week and is the one who trained me just a few weeks ago.

She could have also been doing this with other tables of mine.

She went to the bartender for help.

I talked to the bartender who works right next to the cash register and asked him to put my name on all receipts from my tables.

But he said she claims that was her table

I know there’s nothing I can do but I’m SO MAD.

The tip was a really big deal.

This is also in a country where tips are not expected at all, so leaving a tip is a big deal.

It’s hours later and I’m still mad.

I don’t want to go to bed angry but I’m just so tired of being taken advantage of.

That’s awful! I don’t know that there’s anything she can do about it, but I’d be mad too.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

This person thinks she needs to quit her job.

Another person offers a suggestion of something she should do before she quits.

But maybe she doesn’t need to quit. This suggestion might solve the problem going forward.

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Or, she could stage a way to prove the supervisor is lying and stealing.

I think the suggestion of writing her name on the bill before handing it to the customer would be the easiest way to solve the problem. The secret shopper (or diner) approach could work as well if she’s hoping to get the supervisor fired.

I’d be furious too! What the supervisor did was unacceptable.