Very likely this is old news to y’all, but just in case…
1) A pastor and her friends (a total of more than 20 people) go to Applebees. Applebees system automatically puts an 18% gratuity on the bill for more than 6 people (the actual group was more than 20). The pastor scribbles out the 18% and writes in: “I give God 10% why do you get 18” and writes in “0” for the tip.
2) Another server at Applebees photographs the bill, and posts it to the Atheism page on Reddit… without obscuring the pastors signiture
3) The Internet does what it does, and finds the pastor. Pastor calls Applebees and demands that everyone involved be fired.
4) Applebees fires the server who posted the photo, because “customer privacy.”
5) The Smoking Gun interviews the pastor, one Alois Bell, and splashes her photo across Teh Intarwebs.
6) *Now* the pastor is embarrassed.
There are three dumbasses here. The pastor, the server, Applebees management. The pastor was, I think, the worst of the bunch: the server was just a little thoughtless in not cropping the signature; Applebees management are probably much like any collection of corporate drones, incapable of thinking outside of some rulebook. But the pastor was beyond thoughtless, she was *mean.* And some might consider a worse problem was that, as a pastor, she’s something of an ambassador for her faith. And who wants to sign on to a faith where the local figurehead is such a jackass?
Well, not too many, it seems. Her “church” is a rented storefront, with a congregation of about 15. The pastor claims to tithe 10% of her income from another job to the church… but since she pretty much *is* the church, I fail to see any heroics there.
As for Applebees… they’ve just dug themselves a PR nightmare. Wait till Anonymous or the /b/tards get hold of this…
A comment I saw on one of the Youtube videos noted the irony that it took an atheism discussion board to teach this preacher some humility.