Arkansas Waitress works 40-person party, receives $4000+ tip....then gets fired.

LAWSUIT AND UNEMPLOYMENT...DOUBLE MINT WINNUH!

Never work for other people. Work for yourself

Good. She worked hard and deserves every penny of what she earned.

Deserves a better employer

I was a cab driver and that happened to me too! I didn't

get fired but if I was the only one working for one person

and that person happens to give me a HUGE TIP, why should

I share with anyone else? They actually told me to do it

and I flat out said 'no way'.

Of course waitressing is different. But splitting a tip YOU

worked for doesn't seem fair in my eyes either.

Table games dealers do it all over the country

Every customer should pay in pennies for a month

Waitresses here in AZ---only make $4.00 hourly I believe.

I was outraged when my ex-wife told me this. It was a

few years ago. But I could not believe it!

Never work for other people. Work for yourself

What he did was actually illegal and she could sue both the manager and the restaurant.

communism..... share with all.

And you KNOW that HOW? You're a LAWYER well versed in Arkansas Employment Law??

Nah, DIDN'T really think so.


It's COMMON in many places for wait staff tips to be shared, but that usually DOESN'T cover special parties like this.

Hopefully, the @ 54,000 residents of Bentonville will express their disapproval of this act by the owner.


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Large exchanges of "gratuitous wealth" are often simple cases of laundering or fraud by all parties involved, especially when these exchanges are tax free or otherwise reduced.

If she didn't have a work contract she signed, it's not a real job. Unfortunately there's that sneaky bit they all have.. terms can change at any time and it's the signee's responsibility to review them though often the contract maker is required to offer fair notification of changes to which most people just say ok or otherwise ignore, which is the same as saying ok.

there's a comment here i read that assuming the manager and waitress, and perhaps but not necessarily one or more of the dining party know eachother, can end up spending however much the cost of a meal for 40 (which can be much cheaper than you might expect) and end up walking away with the entire restaurant chains multi-million dollar fortune. ok sure theyre more successful, but maybe they earned it. theres a lot of closet financial dolts here and no its not even about capitalism or not its about effort equaling reward or not. which is why people do (and sometimes dont do) anything.

and no. carrying a tray of food 10 to 30 feet yes even 40 times, which i doubt was anywhere near that is not some sort of act of martyrdom or "above and beyond" action. unless smiling and being friendly and receptive is some grueling task. which it can be depending on the crowd admittedly.

of course pooling a $4000 tip is unprecedented so was the tip itself.

think of the other servers. they should be supporting the restaurant, why dont they? if they believe so wholeheartedly in fairness they can cash their paycheck and give whatever her name is their pool. all this is is bringing attention to some place 349.9 million Americans probably never would have heard of in their lives. so. well played, all.

Something doesn't add up. Evidently the other person got to keep the full $2200 (half of the tip for the two), and apparently she or he is still working there.

Restaurant claims that she was let go for some other reason.

And the owners respond... [link to www.nwahomepage.com (secure)]

shes crying because its on video and now she will have to declare it and 47% of it will go to state & federal taxes

Yikes!