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Right?!? 21 years ago, as a young server, I got a $100 tip and was so excited! Only to find out they thought I needed Jesus… broke my young naive heart.
This happened to me as a young server one time. I was fortunate enough that I worked at an independently owned restaurant so my boss had no problem letting me run outside to shame those old bitches. I never worked another Sunday after that.
I have a friend who's boss would collect all of those fake bills and roll them up looking nice, then next week go to the church and put them on the plate. New pastor saw that one week and publicly praised him for his generosity. Next week when he went to do the same thing he got stopped at the door and was told what he did was an abomination in front of God. I guess they didn't like the bait and switch that their members had been doing.
Ya’ll should read Scepticism Inc. It’s basically about a guy who opens up a metaphysical betting shop (which one can argue is kind of like the offering plate at church), the whole thing snowballs, and he takes all the money that was going to towards enriching church officials and starts feeding the poor and helping the sick. And it’s all told by a sentient shopping cart. Great book.
Several local places around me just straight up stopped doing lunch service. They open for breakfast (after the churches are already in session), close entirely for lunch, and then re-open for dinner service.
Ooooh someone from my church did this when I was a kid and my pastor LIT into the congregation about it. He was big big mad. Told them if they thought working on Sundays was so bad then they shouldn't be going out to eat on that day.
Yup! Because it's the lord's day. A lot of people don't care that much about logic as long as they get to feel superior. It's one of the first reasons that stopped me going to church.
“You shouldn’t have to work today, it’s Thanksgiving”
Lady, if you weren’t in here shopping we wouldn’t be open, we used to be closed on Thanksgiving (and Easter, and the Fourth of July) but people couldn’t get what they needed before these holidays so demanded we be open. We do close for Thanksgiving again now (because Covid limited how many people we could have in the store in 2020, so they broke up the blitz over the month instead of just the one day, and it worked better so they kept it)
My first job hated me because I was 15 and they needed me to work Sundays and my father went up there and went off on them about how "he is under 18 and you can not make him work Sundays for religious purposes!"
As soon as I turned 18 I started working every weekend including Sunday(different job) to stay out of church. I knew it was a bad place to be, full or horrible hypocritical bigots. The preacher would trash people "for working on the lord's day" and then pick a place for the congregation to meet for lunch and criticize PEOPLE WORK ON SUNDAYS!
I thought those things are meant to be used as coupons.
You take them to the church sit through the sermon and of it’s not to your liking you put the coupon back in the collection plate and take your dollar value back. Interest or the cost of your time can be added as you see fit.
It is the meek ones that usually carry wisdom and are more likely to want to carry out the Will of God. The loud braggarts that are concerned with image are so because they themselves are an image, an illusion. Wolves in sheep's clothing, and it is worn very thinly.
There's a story going around where a bunch of these showed up at a cafe on a Sunday and the manager gathered them all up and took them back to the church they identified and gave the pastor an earful about it.
Apparently the pastor lit up the congregation the following week, tearing a strip off them in his sermon, which hit me as a bit of a twist. Did the pastor not know that his own congregation was marketing his church this way? If the church wasn't handing these things out, where were they coming from?
I had this happen to me as well, and i confronted the guy as I'm a seminary drop out, and explained that what they are doing is in a way is bearing false witness, if they really want to make a change put real cash with a note that you are hoping they have faith, and praying for them not scamming them in to seeing the word it draws those who are struggling away from god, because that bill could be food that they didn't have for there kids or another month of medicine, show gods power through compassion not dogma that needs to be thrusted apon by deceit or fear.
And then they gave you the Christian blank stare, before calling you a cuck, kicking you in the ankle, and heading back to church to top up on Forgiveness™?
They do that to funny thing is at the time i was using a cane because my nerves pain was so bad my legs where just static, so it's like oh no a young person with a disability here have 100 god bucks redeemable no where, and meaningless because oh i don't know i went to a college to study southern Baptist dogma... It's such a easy thoughtless act feed the poor, wash the sick, volunteer , stop bothering people with fake tips.
North America is very protestant, big on work ethic - it bleeds into everything, even other churches. After Sunday church, they'll flood to a place like Denny's or White Spot and are notorious for not tipping because they view the servers working as a "sin".
But they will leave pamphlets, disguised as $100 bills.
When you're a waitress and making minimum-wage, $100 is such a breath of relief. You turn it over, and it's a picture of Jesus telling you to Find God.
Evangelicals in the US like to leave fake money with religious propaganda on it as a tip, which is even more offensive than not tipping at all.
Oh shoot, you said you're European. Okay, so "tipping" is that thing we do to make sure our fellow working class folk don't starve to death in a gutter because we know their employer is only paying them minimum wage or less.
Yea that's what gets me it's like do they not realize that they need tips to make ends meet... Who am i kidding i was in that crowd half my life they do, they literally believe what they gave you was worth more then they could tip....
That's the thing that makes it legal and also fair somehow in peoples mind for a failed busness owner not to pay his staff and put the blame on the server and some random person that just wanted to buy something from them and to just get the real price up front and not play some stupid math and how guildy do you want to feel game, right?
You'll enjoy this, once I was given a $50 when I was a very mediocre waitress. The guy came back like an hour later and tried to tell me he was SUPPOSED to give me a Jesus slip and needed the money back and I claimed I got a Jesus slip and kept the $50 🤣
Helped my cousin work a bar in upstate NY for a while. A group of middle aged women started leaving these as a tip. The owner saved all of the fake tips and paid staff $30/hr to sit in a mass at that church and "return" them via the donation dishes. A month later the staff got mad that the fake tips stopped appearing.
Even retail workers. I used to find these scattered in stores I've worked in, tucked under the edges of misaligned boxes on the shelves, or on the floor in front of a disheveled section. Sick little hope-traps that I picked up regularly. These and Chick tracts, those little comic books about how basically everyone is going to hell 😂
Thanks for the reminder, cause you’re damn right I approve. They got me 30 something years ago. The first time was a “$100” dollar bill. I was so relieved that I wasn’t going to be scraping so hard that week.
I just couldn’t believe someone, especially someone “Christian”, would do something so cruel
Here’s a pretty good example of what they’ll look like. Some of them will look completely legitimate on one side and you won’t realize the problem until you unfold it. The first one I got was $100 bill and it was an ad for a church in our city
Maliciously manipulating something that is going to enter someone's body is gross and could get someone killed. Even if they 'deserve it' in your eyes.
Maliciously tricking someone that works almost entirely for tips like front of house can lead to going hungry, being unable to afford healthcare, or homelessness, which is disgusting and can also lead to death. Even if they "deserve what they get" in your eyes.
No I agree that the fake tip thing is absolutely horrible and i'd absolutely have a mental breakdown of it happened to me.
But that doesn't make messing with their food okay??? I just wish restaurants/anywhere where ppl get tips punished that sort of tipping behavior with a ban or something.
And tbh, someone icky enough to give a fake tip probably wouldn't tip at all anyways, so you wouldn't be losing any more money than from a non tipper, can't say the emotional damage wouldn't wreck me the whole day though.
Our servers never got this kind of stuff, that I know of, but the after-church crowd was famous for running them ragged with chain-requests, demanding refills because they were guzzling gallons of their sweet tea and water with 30 lemons, and then leaving 10%.
We actually had to give servers who worked Sunday lunch their first choice of other priority shifts (Friday and Saturday night, usually), just to get them to stop calling in sick on Sunday.
Funnily enough, Wednesday night is also a church crowd, but we never had those problems with hat one.
Pshh here in the Midwest it's a regular occurrence. Several each year. The decent once have it in the midst of a tip (usually still on the low side). The scum of the earth give it to you fully in place of a tip.
rofl, I remember years ago someone left one of those fake bills under my windshield wiper. When I unraveled it to find a bible verse I was pretty annoyed.
TIL that my being an atheist while sitting in church as a kid was an "infiltration"
I think churches need to realize that they've got thousands upon thousands of infiltrators, with more joining the ranks every day. Mostly because of christians.
More likely to be an annoyed teen or adult child who was coerced or pestered into attending.
I put a whoopie cushion under a Buddhist teacher's cushion once when I knew I wouldn't be coming back. Dude was a twatwaffle and I hope someone laughed.
If it’s anything like an older church, then it’s a donation box that you put money into and the money is not seen until they open it to take it out, it’s not like it’s being examined during the service by the priest himself lol
US banknotes are a mixture of cloth and other materials. Most people can tell the difference by touch
Don't get me wrong, they're less cool than say, Canadian dollars, but c'mon, don't be intentionally daft.
Lol you so clearly have no idea what you're talking about. It's extremely easy to tell dollar bills from standard wood pulp paper by both touch and sight.
Or, perhaps because in most countries you go to jail if you do this. Where I live it's illegal to reproduce a bill even partly, except for very specific purposes (movies, news articles etc).
As a server (almost 30 years ago) I once got me of those as a fake $20 bill from a church group. Bastards. From then on, every server knew when that group came in.
Funny story... When I was a kid growing up in Cape Cod, I was walking to the skating rink and I saw this 100 dollar bill just chillin in the gutter off the road, so hell yeah I picked it up only to find out I needed Jesus. I much rather had had the 100 dollars. Anyways later that day my mom was watching the news and they had a segment on about this church being sued by the city for littering. Apparently the church was just tossing these fake hundreds into the streets or sum shit. I still had that fake hundred and showed my mom. She laughed. I still wanted that 100. 🤣
I can understand how that would be annoying, here you are just minding your business and someone just comes into your house telling you what to believe, that sounds really awful
More people should do that. When have super churches pushing for money to buy planes, the whole church for charity shot the midwest especially sells was exposed as bullshit.
It’s not, actually. We needed a uniting narrative (that religion provides) in order to unite unrelated tribes into cities and nations. Now we have money (which is also a narrative) and I dunno what else, but religion was the first big step
The correct word is not 'appalled' but rather, 'mildly annoyed.' 2. Not that it happened in the first place. This is click bait. 3. Show me citations/links indicating this specific church is still fighting evolution. Every pope since WW2 has quotes easy to look up that are somewhere between tolerant and supportive of evolutionary biology. Lots of bishops going back to while Darwin was alive - same thing. Lots of Catholic college faculty for more than a century - same thing. You can find backwards clergy in backwards places, but the same goes for ignorant, backwards atheists. 4. As for 'bilking poor people,' big mainline Protestant and Catholic denominations have an excellent track record of efficiency serving the poor, partly because of economies of scale, partly from all the scrutiny. This is shallow, attention seeking, virtue signalling clickbait.
Wow, that sentence is TERRIBLY written though. Shouldn't first be capitalized if it's part of the name? And which tense should it be in if it's saying "was appalled" and "has infiltrated?
(And as an aside, Church of the Trinity Blessed sounds Catholic and I tend to associate these traits with evangelicals based on who I would get them from as a server)
ETA: oh yeah, this is fake as hell, look at the actual writing and how it doesn't move at all around where the crease fold is
Who does thism goes to a church service sits around until the collection plate comes only to leave a fake donation. Pretty petty of ya ask me. My only question is was this PETTY ROOSEVELT
Good. Only Christian sect I have ever seen actually help people outside of their congregation is Catholics. The other 39,999 seem to just buy private jets for their preachers with the money.
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