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Cheerios4606 · Guru

Dear Miss Manners: Incorrect Change

huskerbb · Guru

Lawyerlady wrote:
I would be annoyed at someone assuming they could keep my change. I would still tip them, but it would be 15% instead of 20% and that change I should have gotten would be deducted.

Yeah. Simple. Just deduct it from the tip.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

huskerbb wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
I would be annoyed at someone assuming they could keep my change. I would still tip them, but it would be 15% instead of 20% and that change I should have gotten would be deducted.
Yeah. Simple. Just deduct it from the tip.

They dont have the right to do that. Plain and simple.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
huskerbb wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
I would be annoyed at someone assuming they could keep my change. I would still tip them, but it would be 15% instead of 20% and that change I should have gotten would be deducted.
Yeah. Simple. Just deduct it from the tip.
They dont have the right to do that. Plain and simple.

No, they don't have the right, which is why I would lower their tip. But it wouldn't be enough for me to throw a fit over.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

I didn't say anything about "throwing a fit". I said it's wrong.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
I didn't say anything about "throwing a fit". I said it's wrong.

But others on here would.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Good point!

Cheerios4606 · Guru

I suppose the question is whether or not you would ask the manager about it. Cuz you may lower the tip yourself and be done with it (no drama) however the waitress is doing it to other people and likely getting away with it. So do you talk to the manager so that they stop it, or again just leave it be and go the no drama route?

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

If it was an accident and you got incorrect change, then i would be like, oh, ok no problem. However if i ate there repeatedly and found that this was not an accident but an On Purpose, then i that is a different scenario. My first thought isn't going to be that this was purposeful. I would be like "oh miss/sir, the change you gave me was incorrect" and it would go from there.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Cheerios4606 wrote:
I suppose the question is whether or not you would ask the manager about it. Cuz you may lower the tip yourself and be done with it (no drama) however the waitress is doing it to other people and likely getting away with it. So do you talk to the manager so that they stop it, or again just leave it be and go the no drama route?

That's the question. And you have to define throwing a fit. If talking to the manager is throwing a fit then I might go that route. Just depends.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
If it was an accident and you got incorrect change, then i would be like, oh, ok no problem. However if i ate there repeatedly and found that this was not an accident but an On Purpose, then i that is a different scenario. My first thought isn't going to be that this was purposeful. I would be like "oh miss/sir, the change you gave me was incorrect" and it would go from there.

It's only ever happened to me once. My meal was something like $16 and some odd change. I waited for the change and waited and waited. When I asked her about it she said she just assumed it was her tip. (I had never said Keep the change.) On the way out I let the manager know she took her own tip out of my change.

huskerbb · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
If it was an accident and you got incorrect change, then i would be like, oh, ok no problem. However if i ate there repeatedly and found that this was not an accident but an On Purpose, then i that is a different scenario. My first thought isn't going to be that this was purposeful. I would be like "oh miss/sir, the change you gave me was incorrect" and it would go from there.
It's only ever happened to me once. My meal was something like $16 and some odd change. I waited for the change and waited and waited. When I asked her about it she said she just assumed it was her tip. (I had never said Keep the change.) On the way out I let the manager know she took her own tip out of my change.

But I think that is an honest mistake if you gave her in the $20 range. No, maybe you didn't "say" it, but I never say that, even if it's what I intend.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

huskerbb wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
If it was an accident and you got incorrect change, then i would be like, oh, ok no problem. However if i ate there repeatedly and found that this was not an accident but an On Purpose, then i that is a different scenario. My first thought isn't going to be that this was purposeful. I would be like "oh miss/sir, the change you gave me was incorrect" and it would go from there.
It's only ever happened to me once. My meal was something like $16 and some odd change. I waited for the change and waited and waited. When I asked her about it she said she just assumed it was her tip. (I had never said Keep the change.) On the way out I let the manager know she took her own tip out of my change.
But I think that is an honest mistake if you gave her in the $20 range. No, maybe you didn't "say" it, but I never say that, even if it's what I intend.

You don't get to take liberties with my money. Maybe she THOUGHT it was a tip but she shouldn't ASSUME until I tell her. I don't get to assume they're take money off my bill just because.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

An honest mistake is fine. Making a practice of just helping yourself is not.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

If she thought that was a tip she could have said, "Would you like me to bring you change?"