HUH? :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Who said whistleblowers can't change things? This guy will shortly be
> out of a job, but his boss may soon be out of a place to eat, while
> treating the serving staff the way he feels he is entitled to treat
> them. Consider this post an antidote to the hateful "bum" posts made
> recently by wgm4u.
> Banker Leaves 1% Tip On $133 Lunch Bill In Defiance of 'The 99%'
> A banker left a 1% tip in defiance of 'the 99%' at a Newport Beach
> restaurant the other week, according to his dining companion and
> underling who snapped a photo of the receipt and posted it to his blog,
> Future Ex Banker <http://futureexbanker.wordpress.com/> . (Update: the
> blog is now offline.)
>
> In posting the photo, the employee gave some background on his boss and
> the receipt:
> Mention the "99%" in my boss' presence and feel his wrath.
> So proudly does he wear his 1% badge of honor that he tips exactly 1%
> every time he feels the server doesn't sufficiently bow down to his
> Holiness. Oh, and he always makes sure to include a "tip" of his
> own.
> The "tip" of his own in this case was to tell the server to "get a real
> job." Pleasant.
>
> The whistleblower's Future Ex-Banker blog (now offline) included
> additional background on his boss
> <http://futureexbanker.wordpress.com/about/> , and some insight into why
> he would out his gross behavior, likely resulting in an employment
> status of current ex-banker:
> I work in the corporate office of a major bank for a boss who
> represents everything wrong with the financial industry: blatant
> disregard and outright contempt for everyone and everything he deems
> beneath him. On top of that, he's a complete and utter tool. At the
> same time, I'm still cashing paychecks, an admittedly
> willing—albeit reluctant—cog in the wheel of this increasingly
> ugly industry, so I've created this blog as a confessional of
> sorts. It won't entirely clear my conscience, but hopefully
> it'll help. I'm sure I'll get fired eventually. Until then,
> enjoy.
> UPDATE: In a conversation with the Huffington Post, Mike Wilcox, the
> vice president of operations for True Food Kitchen
> <http://www.truefoodkitchen.com/> , gave some insight into how the
> company was treating the incident since the receipt began receiving
> attention online. Wilcox said that the restaurant was "absolutely"
> treating the receipt as real, but to confirm its authenticity for
> certain, they were in the process of tracking down both the physical
> receipt at the restaurant and the computer-generated copy in their
> credit card system.
>
> "The first thing we're going to do is to make sure the server is taken
> care of," Wilcox said, "and make sure the server wasn't treated badly
> or insufficiently tipped." He explained that they would be asking
> Breanna, the server named on the receipt, if she recalled the table and
> how her service was. "If her service was up to the level" they assume
> their employees would deliver, Wilcox said, "they would do everything
> they can to make it up to her somehow." Referring to online comments
> posted about the receipt, Wilcox remarked, "people are asking us to ban
> the person from the restaurant -- if more information came through on
> who the person is I first would love to talk to him."
>
> UPDATE II: As many have noted, a true 1% tip correctly rounded to the
> nearest penny would have been $1.34, leaving this tip just shy of that
> threshold, mathematically speaking.
>
