So I get told the pay is $15 an hour, right. That's what it says on the job listing and that's what I'm told on the phone interview. Cool, it's not much but it's more than minimum wage and it's fair for the work I'd be doing.
I wait for the call back for like a week–they constantly fuck up my name through correspondence– but I'm finally able to have an orientation. I go in and talk with the managers. Standard stuff, they hand me a w4.
They THEN say I'll be earning $10 an hour, plus tips. Oh, but don't worry, they tell me, you'll never make less than $3 in tips per hour.
Um. I nervous laugh, I go to the current employees and ask them if they do well with tips. One girl looks me dead in the eye and says “we don't make as much as (boss) says.”
I leave work that day from a 8 hour shift with just $8 in tips.
And I didn't even realize how fucked up it was right away because I was so blinded by the fact that I could start making money again, even if it's scraps. I'm realizing now that I've essentially been tricked and yanked around by this business and I've barely even started.
It's just disappointing.