Waitress didn't receive a tip because she wasn’t ‘normal-looking’
Why do you tip someone? For their enthusiasm, getting your food order correct or just for going the extra mile with their service? This person based their tip on the waiter’s appearance!
Working in the hospitality industry is not always fun!
Some people have to put up with a lot of terrible customers doing awful things, like not paying a tip.
A young girl called Taelor Beeck faced this problem recently when she wasn’t tipped for the most ridiculous reason.
A table she was serving paid the bill and wrote "tips are only for normal-looking people"
Taelor chatted to WHOTv, and had this to say about what her customer said about her appearance:
“At first, I felt really upset, I felt attacked, I almost felt like I was back in middle school all over again, like being bullied. I felt like a burning anger inside of me."
"But I didn't act on it because it's not worth it when someone puts hate out there, you know to respond in a hateful way will do no good,"
"It's the way that I can express myself artistically and it's really important for me that I'm allowed to do that, and it's ok if people don't understand it because it's just who I am."
You have to pity a person that goes the route of not tipping due to the waitress’s appearance. I mean really what is normal anyway?
I think she is a beautifully unique looking woman. I wonder how I would have reacted if I had received a comment like that.
Props to her for being the bigger person and not chirping back.
Anyone that has worked as a waitress knows you have to be a pleasant and on the ball multitasking machine and so what if you have candy floss coloured hair?
The world should be less judgmental and more accepting of quirky individuals.
This is what Taelor looks like:
