Think i’m getting wildly screwed over

Hi. I need help.

so I have to tip out 10% of my sales every night.

Which basically means that if a table tips me less than 10% or if they tip me 0% I am paying out-of-pocket to tip the rest of staff.

(3.5% to bar, 3.75 to hosts/support, 2.25 to kitchen)

and

(Usually, this is 50% of my tips, too.)

On top of that I usually work 8hrs (not rlly a problem but it doesn’t help that I make less and work more than past jobs)

Last night was a shit show

We have been really understaffed with buses and when I am the server outside, I have 7 4 tops outside, that don’t come preset with any silverware so I have to preset them with everything.

Comes a rush and I get 4 four tops at once.

I have absolutely no time to take their orders and give them the attention that they need, but I try my best to get everything in and then preset them as soon as possible, but I still have 3 other tables to take care of!

I get their drinks and come to find out. We are out of water glasses so they don’t get water until 45 minutes into their service. We also apparently ran out of silverware, but that was a problem that was fixed kind of quickly.

The kitchen is backed up to no ends and a lot of their food didn’t end up coming out for half an hour.

of course people were upset so I got really bad tips and I had to tip out the rest of the staff so got wildly screwed over for how hard I worked.

I had one table that paid with the gift card that I actually think everything went super smoothly for and they left me zero dollars for no reason ….

I asked my manager if anything could’ve been done about that in specific and no answer.

Should I try and find a new job (which may be wildly impossible in my area right now…?)

Posted Jan 11, 2026, 8:12 PM UTC

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