Man slammed after playing ‘cruel’ tip game with waitress

A man has been slammed on social media after allegedly playing a tip game with his waitress during a date that has been blasted as “cruel” and “insulting”. 

Really, it’s not that hard to refrain from behaving obnoxiously towards your server when you go out for dinner. You don’t have to move heaven and earth, just simply remembering that they are human and trying to do a job is enough to ensure that you don’t upset anyone under normal circumstances.

But one man seems to have taken it upon himself to actively heap pressure on his waitress during a date, perhaps as some bizarre way of trying t0 impress the woman he was with.

Needless to say, it didn’t work, and the woman in question took to Reddit to recount her bizarre experience.

“I met a guy on a dating app, we hit it off and we arranged for our first date. Things were going well, we had sat down and had started some small chat. Our waitress comes over asking us what we want to order,” she began.

“I say what I want and gesture to him so he can order. He orders and then pulls what I think is about 15 dollars on the table. He says ‘This is your tip. Everytime you mess up, I take some away’”.

She said that the waitress immediately looked nervous and that she herself was left embarrassed by the man’s behaviour.

“She must have been new as well, because she did spill some drinks on our table that night, gave us the wrong food, and overall just seemed lost. He took away 13 dollars.

I asked him why he thought doing tips this way was a good idea. He said it was the best way to ensure ‘good service’. When I disagreed he said ‘Cant always be nice to these people, it’s not a respectable job’”.

The woman decided in that moment that she wanted nothing more to do with the man in question, and even gave the waitress a $20 tip of her own before leaving.

“Later that night he had demanded to know why I had given her the tip despite her poor service and I told him it’s because he decided to treat her livelihood like it was a game. He said because of me she’ll never improve her service and that I’m just a people pleaser,” she wrote.

“I blocked him, but I’ve wondered ever since if that was really the right thing to do.”

Needless to say, the comments section was flooded by people telling her she had done the right thing.

“I’m guessing he got this from some awful “Pick-up Artist / Alpha Male” forum where they call women nasty names and complain about being single at the same time.” One commenter wrote, while a second added, “He is using the service she provides and yet insulting her and all the people who share the same job”.

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