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<h2>The subject of tipping for service in a restaurant or a bar is often controversial, especially for people who come from a country where tipping is not customary...</h2><p>Servers and bartenders working long shifts without breaks to make your first date, gathering with friends, or birthday party special deserve to be tipped regardless of their present financial situation. So, when a conflicted and &quot;broke&quot; college student decided to consult the online courtroom of moral philosophy otherwise known as Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole?&quot; about their decision to stiff a server on a tip, people were there to help deem a verdict.</p><h2><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ngmcqm/aita_for_not_tipping_my_waitress_friend_who_won/">AITA</a> (Am I the As*hole) for not tipping my waitress friend who won $20,000 from lottery?</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend works at a restaurant that I visit from time to time. Every time I eat or with other friends, she would serve our table. She recently won $20,000 from Powerball. It&#39;s all she could talk about since then and she&#39;s ecstatic about it. She even had her picture taken at the lottery center with the giant check. This was around last week.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>So today I went to eat at the restaurant with another friend. We both decided that since she won $20k, we wouldn&#39;t tip. And it&#39;s not because &quot;oh you have too much money already&quot;, it&#39;s rather that we are broke college students who literally cannot afford to tip well. And we figured that she would understand given her mega win.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>When she came to pick up the check we made a lighthearted joke about how she wouldn&#39;t need our tips anyway, and she suddenly got annoyed and said &quot;guys what the hell&quot;. She said it&#39;s crappy of us not to tip, and we kept reminding her of her $20k win. We asked her if she had urgent bills to pay or anything and she said no, she&#39;s gonna save it. And she still has a problem with us and called us cheap.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Like what is this? Literally 20 thousand dollars and you still want a tip... The rest of us didn&#39;t win this money, only you did. If I won $20k with my current situation as a server I wouldn&#39;t care about tipping for at least the next few months. She just won it last week.</p> </blockquote><h2>Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say:</h2><blockquote> <p>YTA (You&#39;re the As*hole). If you&rsquo;re going to order in a restaurant, leave a tip. Otherwise, stay home. - TheBestPeter</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>YTA. $20k is not &quot;hooray, my financial woes are over forever!&quot; money by <em>any</em> stretch of the imagination (obviously, since she&#39;s still on the job), and she&#39;s still putting in the effort to make sure you get good service. If you can&#39;t afford to tip, don&#39;t go to restaurants where that&#39;s expected. - mm172</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>YTA. If you can&#39;t afford to tip at a restaurant, you can&#39;t afford to eat out at a restaurant. - Spank_Cakes</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>YTA. Don&#39;t go out to eat if you can&#39;t tip. If you&#39;re a broke student, stay your broke a*s at home with some ramen or $5 hot and ready pizza like the rest of us do / did. - Verifiedverity</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>If you won 20k would you be okay with it if your employer suddenly decided it would be okay not to pay you? - AnnyTray</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>YTA. Friend or not, lottery win or not, you tip at a restaurant for good service. $20,000 is far from life changing money, your friend still needs to earn a living. Do you ask to see every server&#39;s bank balance before deciding whether or not to tip them? I don&#39;t think so. If you can&#39;t afford to tip then you can&#39;t afford to eat out. - Dont-trust-it</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>So, there you have it!</h2><p>Everyone agreed that this college student was embarrassingly and almost impressively in the wrong here. This waitress deserved to make money for the shift during which she was actively working at her job, and her lottery win is completely irrelevant here. Good luck, everyone!</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

'Broke' student asks if they're wrong for not tipping waitress who won lottery.

The subject of tipping for service in a restaurant or a bar is often controversial, especially for people who come from a country where tipping is not customary...Servers and bartenders working long shifts without breaks to make your first date, gathering with friends, or birthday party special deserve to be tipped regardless of their present financial situation. So, when a conflicted and &quot;broke&quot; college student decided to consult the online courtroom of moral philosophy otherwise known as Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole?&quot; about their decision to stiff a server on a tip, people were there to help deem a verdict.AITA (Am I the As*hole) for not tipping my waitress friend who won $20,000 from lottery? My friend works at a restaurant that I visit from time to time. Every time I eat or with other friends, she would serve our table. She recently won $20,000 from Powerball. It&#39;s all she could talk about since then and she&#39;s ecstatic about it. She even had her picture taken at the lottery center with the giant check. This was around last week.   So today I went to eat at the restaurant with another friend. We both decided that since she won $20k, we wouldn&#39;t tip. And it&#39;s not because &quot;oh you have too much money already&quot;, it&#39;s rather that we are broke college students who literally cannot afford to tip well. And we figured that she would understand given her mega win.   When she came to pick up the check we made a lighthearted joke about how she wouldn&#39;t need our tips anyway, and she suddenly got annoyed and said &quot;guys what the hell&quot;. She said it&#39;s crappy of us not to tip, and we kept reminding her of her $20k win. We asked her if she had urgent bills to pay or anything and she said no, she&#39;s gonna save it. And she still has a problem with us and called us cheap.   Like what is this? Literally 20 thousand dollars and you still want a tip... The rest of us didn&#39;t win this money, only you did. If I won $20k with my current situation as a server I wouldn&#39;t care about tipping for at least the next few months. She just won it last week. Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say: YTA (You&#39;re the As*hole). If you&rsquo;re going to order in a restaurant, leave a tip. Otherwise, stay home. - TheBestPeter  YTA. $20k is not &quot;hooray, my financial woes are over forever!&quot; money by any stretch of the imagination (obviously, since she&#39;s still on the job), and she&#39;s still putting in the effort to make sure you get good service. If you can&#39;t afford to tip, don&#39;t go to restaurants where that&#39;s expected. - mm172  YTA. If you can&#39;t afford to tip at a restaurant, you can&#39;t afford to eat out at a restaurant. - Spank_Cakes  YTA. Don&#39;t go out to eat if you can&#39;t tip. If you&#39;re a broke student, stay your broke a*s at home with some ramen or $5 hot and ready pizza like the rest of us do / did. - Verifiedverity  If you won 20k would you be okay with it if your employer suddenly decided it would be okay not to pay you? - AnnyTray  YTA. Friend or not, lottery win or not, you tip at a restaurant for good service. $20,000 is far from life changing money, your friend still needs to earn a living. Do you ask to see every server&#39;s bank balance before deciding whether or not to tip them? I don&#39;t think so. If you can&#39;t afford to tip then you can&#39;t afford to eat out. - Dont-trust-it So, there you have it!Everyone agreed that this college student was embarrassingly and almost impressively in the wrong here. This waitress deserved to make money for the shift during which she was actively working at her job, and her lottery win is completely irrelevant here. Good luck, everyone!

The subject of tipping for service in a restaurant or a bar is often controversial, especially for people who come from a country where tipping is not customary...  Servers and bartenders working long shifts without breaks to make your...