Man's cruel tip game 'to ensure good service' backfires when his date refuses to play along

Tips are crucial for those working in the service industry, significantly impacting their monthly income. So, making it difficult for them to receive proper tips is both unfair and inhumane. One woman, u/throwaway000059 on Reddit, shared how she walked out on a date who played a cruel "game" with their server's tip. She turned to Reddit to ask if she had made the right choice.

"I met a guy on a dating app, we hit it off and we arranged for our first date. Things were going well. We had sat down and had started some small chat," the woman shared. Soon enough, a waitress came over to take the couple's order. The woman ordered her food and nudged the man to order for himself. But as soon as the man placed his order, things went south. "He orders and then pulls what I think is about 15 dollars on the table. He says, 'This is your tip. Every time you mess up, I take some away,'" the person revealed.

The waitress immediately looked nervous because of what the man said. She appeared to be new to the job as she made a few small mistakes like spilling the drinks and getting the wrong food. By the end, the man had taken away about 13 dollars. "I'm sitting there a bit shocked but mostly embarrassed because I wasn't expecting this," the woman said of the man's behavior. "I asked him why he thought doing tips this way was a good idea. He said it was the best way to ensure 'good service,'" she revealed. When the woman disagreed with him, he said, "Can't always be nice to these people. It's not a respectable job."

Finally, the woman decided she had seen enough and didn't want anything to do with the man. "[I] called the waitress over to get the bill. I slapped a 20-dollar bill in her hand and got up to pay for my own meal," she revealed. "Later that night, he had demanded to know why I had given her the tip despite her poor service and I told him it was because he decided to treat her livelihood like it was a game." The man blamed her and told her that because of what she did, the waitress would never improve and called the woman a people pleaser. "I blocked him, but I've wondered ever since if that was really the right thing to do," she wrote in her post.

People took to the comments to tell the woman she did the right thing. u/sarahsignorelli shared, "I was a server years ago, and I had a table that did something similar. They put a $5 bill on the table and said I better give great service because they deserve it, and this would be my tip if I did well. I worked in a steakhouse. So, a 5-buck tip would be really low. I took my time and focused more on my other tables, but I was polite and gave them pretty good service. They left the tip, but I did think their behavior was gross."

u/RenDabs wrote, "If I was a server and someone pulled this s*** with me, I'd probably give them bad service on purpose. $15 isn't even a great tip." u/DrWhoop87 commented, "I've never been a waiter, but when people put needless stress and expectations on me (especially in an already stressful job), it definitely affects my performance. I could easily believe the waitress usually does a much better job. OP handled it perfectly. You can tell a lot about people by how they treat service staff."