Some trends I have noticed.

[Racket_Man]

I believe that even though this topic deals with SC's the very nature of it belongs here at Fratching

I know there have been several thread lately about tipping here and elsewhere.

A distrubing trend I have noticed lately is the customer writing snarky and demeaning things on a CC slip directed toward the server and possibly tipping in general.

I found another one at Retail Hell Underground but I have seen more and more of this type of behavior coming to light in the last year or so in a more broad sense from many different sources.



I am wondering if this can be attributed to one or two things:

1. the customers are indeed becoming more sucky in this aspect

or

2. is it because there are more devices out there such as cell phone and tablets with cameras and more and more servers are just getting angrier at getting stiffed with stupid comments like this.

This is a trend I personally find very disturbing.

[Seifer]

I think servers are just being more open about this kind of shit. There have always been assholes, but I can't say if it's always been to this extent or if it's more recent.

I can tell you one thing - that server needs to refuse service to those assbags if/when they come back.

[Nekojin]

I think it's a combination of both 1 and 2.

2 is obvious - there's more exposure, and more ability to share when others are being sucky.

1 is a bit more subtle. I honestly think that the anonymity of the Internet is allowing people to indulge their inner asshole, and as they get more confident about being utter dicks online, they're also getting more confident in real life as well. Either that, or their "Appropriateness" sensor needs some impact calibration.

[hinakiba777]

I have to admit I saw the slip before I read the post, and I thought the server had written it to the customer.

Now that i know it was the other way around, I can't tell what is worse.

Honestly, people just suck. But I have to agree that it probably is a mix of people being cruddy, and there just being a lot more ways of showing how shitty people are being.

[Greenday]

Here's my thing: these pricks know that by using a credit card, the waiter/waitress they just stiffed and dropped a rude comment to now has their full name, right?

[Racket_Man]

I have a feeling that one other reason IS because of the proliferation of these CC slips appearing on the internet.

My guess is that there are people who deliberately do things like this just to get the next "viral" posting on <whatever> social media site or to one-up the last posting by being snarkier or meaner.

But still this trend disturbs me.

[HYHYBT]

...or at least got the idea from seeing it done, even if they wouldn't want theirs to be made public.