Waitress calls out employer for only paying her a cent after six weeks of work – and exposes problematic tipping culture

A 25-YEAR-OLD mom called out her employer when she received her paycheck after six weeks of waitressing – and she was only paid $0.01. But, instead of getting pity from those following her, people began to debate about tipping culture in the United States. The Nashville self-proclaimed hustler shared a video where she showed off […]

A 25-YEAR-OLD mom called out her employer when she received her paycheck after six weeks of waitressing – and she was only paid $0.01.

But, instead of getting pity from those following her, people began to debate about tipping culture in the United States.

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A woman revealed she was paid only one cent after six weeks of waitressing[/caption]

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Another one of her checks was $0.00[/caption]

The Nashville self-proclaimed hustler shared a video where she showed off her $0.01 paycheck.

She also had another paycheck but it read $0.00.

She said: “Life of a server … this is six weeks of pay. Tip your servers!”

Additionally, she wrote: “The f**k I’m gonna do with one penny, Steven?”

However, the waitress didn’t get the pity she thought she would in her comment section.

Many actually slammed her for not revealing how much she had actually made in tips, which is why she had not gotten an actual salary.

One person wrote: “I always tip but the restaurant needs to pay you guys.”

A second one commented: “It’s not my job to pay your bills, I got my own.”

While a third asked her to show how much she had gotten on tops because he was “sure it was more than a 40-hour weekly wage.”

And a fourth added, to which many agreed with: “She got $0 because she made more money on tips than what they pay her.

“Her showing her checks saying to tip is misleading.”

Unlike the rest of the world, most of the United States uses a tip credit system, which requires restaurants to top up their wage to reach the hourly minimum if their tips don’t reach it.

In Tennessee, where the waitress works, employers follow the federal minimum wage which is $7.25.

Restaurants are required to pay $2.13 of that as a “cash wage,” and the rest if the server doesn’t make it in tips.

This means that because the waitress got tipped more than what she made in the hourly wage, she had to pay taxes from it.

Therefore, no more money for her.

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Tipping culture in America is very different compared to the rest of the world[/caption]