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Anthony Dierolf did that very thing at a New Jersey restaurant last Monday night, adding an embarrassing 0.68% tip—yeah, that's a decimal point—before signing his receipt at the Colts Neck Inn in Colts Neck, New Jersey. And the reason that we all know about this is because a state senator shared a copy of that receipt on social media, calling Dierolf a "jerk" with "misplaced obnoxiousness."
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Ashley Sculthorpe, who had the misfortune of serving Dierolf, said that she didn't know that he was unhappy about anything until she saw that decimal point on the receipt. "Everything was great according to him, I asked him multiple times," she said.
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The response to O'Scanlon's tweet (and to Dierolf's 74-cent tip) was unsurprisingly mixed. "You have every right to expose this person. I applaud you! […] God bless you!" one woman responded. "Should you be attacking Anthony Dierolf to get him to pay more, or the person who actually pays them?" another wrote. And some of O'Scanlon's constituents just pointed out the irony of him complaining about this measly tip after he voted against a measure that would've raised New Jersey's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2027. (“This law will have disastrous consequences for our business community and minimum wage workers," he wrote in a statement. "It simply goes too far too fast.")Although it's hard, if not impossible, to justify leaving a 74-cent tip, it still seems like maybe proposing legislation to benefit service industry workers would've been a better way to address the situation than calling Dierolf a jerk on Twitter.That said, bad tippers tend to be jerks.