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I'm not one to actively seek revenge on anyone, I just don't work that way but on one occasion a group of friends and I went out for the evening and were going to get some appetizers and have drinks for the evening. It was at a local resort that we used to frequent, and it was a common practice for people (not just us) to do so. People would get a table, and just hang out at the tiki bar for hours, munching away on apps.

We had a server who was obviously out of sorts, was irritated that we had come and sat down because she had been enjoying sitting around doing nothing and now she had to wait on people, (her words). There was a DJ who was our close friend, and we would often go as a group over to where she was working and spend the evening hanging out, drinking, eating, talking, you get the picture. Over the next several hours we only saw the server at the beginning and then she disappeared. She was still there but avoided any attempt we made to order anything else. She brought us maybe one pitcher and a couple of appetizers and that was it. There was a larger group of us (seven or eight of us), and so we were going through apps, mixed drinks, and beer at a decent clip, but she just about never came to check on us and we would have to go and order our own stuff directly from the bar and go and get it.

At the end of the night we had our bill come and it was several hundred dollars and THEN she showed up. We paid the bill, and tipped on the service she actually gave, which amounted to something like two appetizers and the initial pitcher of beer. She turned red and purple and stormed off to ‘tell the bar manager', but we weren't going to pay her for service she never gave. The bar manager agreed with us that service given is service tipped, and he made her apologize to us. We weren't looking for that, and weren't even going to talk with a manager because hey, we still got the stuff we wanted to order, but she took it to that level. But the point is, we didn't get revenge, we gave her what was fair for the items she had actually brought, which was almost nothing.

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