Like right after that week when the owners were on vacation and did a last-minute schedule change where I missed seeing that I was suddenly working on one day and that my shift had changed to an earlier start time on another, I was working and there were a series of very (high demand) (low tip) (often South Asian from South Asia) tables.
“See, this is karma because I made a mistake and I didn’t work when I was scheduled,” I said to my one (older) (Thai) coworker who’s a whiz at the phones.
And, she didn’t say anything, and she didn’t even look at me, but she just threw her hand out and shook her finger at me, slowly and decisively.
. . .
(Right after that happened with the two shifts, the next time that I came on shift, my one [chubby] [Thai] coworker said hello to me and then was like, “I am glad that you decided to come to work today.”)
. . .
(I wonder if [South Asians from South Asia] are aware that their tipping behavior can serve as karma-like punishment for others, and perhaps not only for individuals, but for all heirs of the great Western imperial powers. The erstwhile-colonials are getting their revenge, you might say. If there was any justice or commonsense in the way this country was run, though, we would slap a like 18% automatic surcharge on H-1B visas, and spread that money around to all the waiters they’ve f*cked.)
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