Food workers roasted for confessing stty ways they ripped off employers including pocketing cash and entering ghost orders
You’re fired.Most people think the worst that restaurant workers will do while on the job is maybe tampering with a problematic customer’s order.
Well, think again — because these naughty employees are messing less with the patrons and more with their employers.In the r/confession subreddit on Reddit, a thread was started when a now-deleted post from a former Chili’s employee revealed that they would steal from customers when they ordered the 2-for $20 deal.
After reading that, thousands of former restaurant workers chimed in, instead divulging shocking stories of how they stole from their employers.And let’s just say — one story got worse after the other.
A former McDonald’s employee shared that when they were on the clock, they would punch an order in and the kitchen would often make it right away.If the buyer paid with exact change for their order, the employee would hand off the food, and “delete the order after, pocketing the money.”“Never once got caught, but a few of the full-timers would start asking where the order went and look for the food so I started only doing it at night when the teenage staff just didn’t care,” the McDonald’s staff member explained.Another unhinged restaurant worker at TGI Friday’s explained how the restaurant would run two promo coupons in the weekend paper.“I believe they were both $5 off a purchase of a certain amount or maybe $5 and a percentage off on the other coupon,” they explained in the thread.The employee said they would collect the coupons that customers left behind in addition to clipping them from the newspaper.
“When customers paid cash, I’d print the bill but not finalize it, and just apply the coupon after they left, pocketing $5 each time,” the Reddit user shared.A former Ruby Tuesday employee reminisced on the devious tactics of a fellow co-worker.
They mentioned how many customers would order just the salad bar and a drink.He explained how salad bar and drink orders didn...