Man, working in the service industry really changes you as a person.
Today I had one little kid (probably around the age of 6) who was trying to steal things including our tips (and this was after we gave him a cookie because we were being nice and hey it’s the holidays). We found out that he’d apparently been wandering the hotel by himself and harassing the bar as well.
Then two other slightly older kids (like maybe between ages 8 and 10) came in and hovered until we turned our backs and they took a couple mugs and tried to bolt. They ditched the cups outside because they knew we saw them though.
Then later our whole tip jar had disappeared.
I’m about to get kinda yikes here but I have a feeling they all had the same parent (they were all little black kids), and I’ll bet you that their parent probably sent them in to steal stuff because little kids won’t get in very much trouble. This is beyond just not tipping, they’re just flat out stealing our tips now.














