Have you ever had the sneaking suspicion that the tips you’re giving to staff at an eatery or restaurant aren’t actually going to workers, but are instead being gobbled up by the owners to do it with as they see fit?
It’s not like it doesn’t happen, a Crafty Crab server went viral on TikTok in December of 2022 after stating that a manager of the restaurant told her her tips would be going to the company and not directly to her.
Now, an employee of a dumpling restaurant in Connecticut says she quit her job for a similar practice, but she suspects that management has been lying to her about how gratuity has been distributed throughout her entire tenure at the business.
Maia Dobbs (@maiadobbs) says she first caught wind of the gratuity tomfoolery at her place of work when she began looking into her paystubs after she was told that her pay would be transitioning from tip-based to a set hourly wage.
Dumpling shop drama again #restaurantlife #quittingmyjob #wagetheftoriginal sound - Maia Dobbs
“I just rage quit my waitressing job,” Dobbs says in the clip. “They were gonna switch my pay from tips to minimum wage and not tell me. And the only way I found out was because somebody else told me. And then they offered my male co-worker who started working the same time as me $18.50 an hour. And then I just kind of ignored them for like a week because I was like what the fu-.”
She adds in a text overlay of her video that the minimum wage for Connecticut is $15/hr and according to ...
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