"Tip Your Servers" Waitress Says She Was Paid Just 1 Cent For 6 Weeks Of Restaurant Work!

A TikTok user said she took home just 1 cent over the course of six weeks while working as a waitress at a Nashville restaurant.



The 25-year-old service worker, named Liny, shared a video to the social media site last month showing off her paystubs.



The federal minimum wage for tipped employees across the United States is $2.13 an hour. However, in Tennessee, federal, Social Security and Medicare taxes are deducted from earned income. That left Liny with a measly $0.01 from her employer.



It’s unclear how many hours Liny worked across the six-week pay period, and she did not disclose how much money she accumulated in tips within the same timeframe.



However, in the caption of her video, the waitress writes to her TikTok followers: “Tip your servers!!!”



Many viewers bristled at Liny’s demand, with one replying: “It’s not my job to pay your bills. I got my own to pay.” That comment was liked a whopping 10,200 times.



“Blame the businesses you’re working for, not the consumers,” another viewer concurred. “In other countries, they don’t need to tip because they pay a living wage.”



“I’ve easily made $4400 a month being a server. Don’t let those empty checks fool you if you’re serving and making so much more than you get as an hourly rate,” a third person wrote. Posted by JR