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"The waitress who posted on Reddit a receipt showing a customer complaining about tipping has been fired. The pastor had crossed out the tip amount while paying for a meal at an unidentified restaurant and scribbled on the note: &amp;quot;I give God 10%, why do you get 18%?&amp;quot;  After the picture went viral, the customer demanded for the Applebee&amp;#039;s waitress and the rest of the staff to be let go. Applebee&amp;#039;s responded to the complaint by firing the waitress in question. The waitress has been identified as Chelsea Welch, who told The Consumerist that she only posted the note in the first place as a &amp;quot;light-hearted joke&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;I thought the note was insulting, but it was also comical,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I posted it to Reddit because I thought other users would find it entertaining.&amp;quot; Welch continued: &amp;quot;When I posted this, I didn&amp;#039;t represent Applebee&amp;#039;s in a bad light. In fact, I didn&amp;#039;t represent them at all. I did my best to protect the identity of all parties involved. I didn&amp;#039;t break any specific guidelines in the company handbook - I checked. &amp;quot;But because this person got embarrassed that their selfishness was made public, Applebee&amp;#039;s has made it clear that they would rather lose a dedicated employee than lose an angry customer. That&amp;#039;s a policy I can&amp;#039;t understand.&amp;quot; It was also revealed that the receipt was not for Welch&amp;#039;s table, and that a fellow waitress showed her the note. Meanwhile, Alois Bell - the customer - called the message a &amp;quot;lapse in my character and judgment&amp;quot;. The pastor claimed to The Smoking Gun that she did leave behind a $6 tip in cash in the end. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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