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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/foreverisabelle on 2025-08-06 21:49:14+00:00.
For context: I was a server at a really busy Mexican restaurant. I'd been working there on and off for 5 years, mostly through the summers between my college classes. They recently fired 70% of the staff due to the ice raids recently, and hired a ton of new people and cut the menu in half. Some of the staff they fired had been there for over 10 years.
The new busboy threw away a bunch of my checks on Sunday before I put the tip in, and I started crying because it was like $100 worth of checks. I left early because my makeup was ruined and my eyes were beet red.
Today, I asked the owner (who normally was rarely there but since the changes is there all the time) for my check and then asked him if they found any receipts on Sunday, and he said no, that I was just going to have to eat that. So I started tearing up and said that was like $100 and then he fires me on the spot. There was no back and forth before that. He just saw that I was about to cry again and fires me. He said here's your $100 leave and don't come back. We were absolutely slammed on Sunday, and I wouldn't have made anything if they didn't tip me out.
And then he tried to blame me for a table walking out like a week ago. When they didn't walk out, they gave me a debit gift card thing, that I didn't know the system couldn't run. He said he ate $100 so I should too, but he didn't? Like I gave him the gift card??
Luckily I had just put in my two weeks and I'll be starting a job out of the service industry, and in a field that I have a degree in.
Edit: They knew when I started back in April that I would be leaving in August, this is basically always how I've worked here, so it wasn't just a let me fire you before you quit thing. Also, you guys have also convinced me to contact the state labor board for wage theft, although I'm still not very convinced there's much recourse for me.