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3 minutes ago, Kim J said:

Or maybe she comes from a rural community and her parents couldn't afford to send her to a decent school?. But that doesn't excuse her behaviour. Under such circumstances I would have asked for the change and not left any tip.

What did the owner say when you raised it?

The owner is a really nice guy, he said he would have a word, I only usually use the place when the Mrs is visiting her family as it's within easy walking distance from where I live.

 

I take your point about the education, perhaps a tad snide from me, but I was trying to reinforce my point because some on here seem to think that poor wages equates to keeping whatever they deem reasonable without considering how the customer feels, her actions could be costing her boss money through lost custom, as I stated in my OP I'm not a CC so the amount doesn't come into it. ????

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I often think that if I had to live the life of a poorer Thai that I'd just kill myself.

But of course that doesn't happen often because the poor Thai grew up poor. It's normalised for them.

I'm hoping the owner doesn't give her too much of a hard time.

May I suggest a pay rise in exchange for promise of returning change promptly.

 

 

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In this situation I would have told her I am waiting for my 35 baht change.

 

Then, upon receiving the change given the usual 20B tip...  just to place the message that this does not happen again to me.

 

The waitress was taking the p!ss.. she knew what she was doing and she was taking liberties with your money.

 

Regardless of the financial differences, we are in Thailand’s, she doesn’t get paid much, hard life, what is 35 baht to you? etc etc comments which some posters are bound to post.. this was not her money to decide what to do with.

 

 

That said: On handing over the 450 baht I would normally tell the waitress to keep the change. 

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3 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Suspect the odd amount given indicated it was tip.  Wrong for her to assume and you mention happening before so perhaps not - but believe if you provided 1k or 500 baht change would have appeared.  

Agree.  OP shouldn't be so hard on the girl.  If I leave an odd amount (like 450 for a 415 bill), then it is for a tip.  It's like if the bill was 995 bt and I leave 1,100 bt, surely it's obvious that it's a tip. 

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4 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Suspect the odd amount given indicated it was tip.  Wrong for her to assume and you mention happening before so perhaps not - but believe if you provided 1k or 500 baht change would have appeared.  

If he would have provided a 1000 baht note, change for a 500 baht note would probably have appeared. It is a situation I try to avoid here in Thailand, happened a few times to me. Had to REALLY show my 200 cm, 150 kilo angry farang face and voice to get the remainder back out of the stealing little thai paws.

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