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Jon-Barrett Ingels, 31, says he worked at Barney Greengrass, the cafe on the fifth floor of Barneys New York in Beverly Hills, Calif., and documented his celebrity encounters under the Twitter username, PapaBarrett. Ingels had dished about his on-the-job celeb encounters to his followers, with comments like "Thurs: Tori Spelling eats salami eggs and onions. BTW when did Tori become hot? Also Emilio Estevez looks like his dad," or, "Watched Neil Strauss (The Game) pick up girls and Mindy Kaling talking at a hungover BJ Novak (The Office). My work is not reality!"
But he tells Slashfood that his Twitter of an encounter with actress Jane Adams put an end to that job.
"Tues: Jane Adams, star of HBO series 'Hung' skipped out on a $13.44 check. Her agent called and payed [sic.] the following day. NO TIP!!!" he wrote in his fifth Tweet.
Ingels recounted the experience on his blog, where he explained that Adams allegedly couldn't find her wallet in her purse and asked if she could go to her car and grab it.
"It's not like I wouldn't remember who she was," Ingels said.
Two days later, Ingels said a representative of Adams called one of the restaurant's managers to pay the bill sans tip, prompting his angry Tweet.
"I'm a struggling actor too, and I felt like in that moment she lost the sense that I'm trying to do the same thing that's she's doing," Ingels told Slashfood. "I just became the guy that brought her soup."
At the time, the waiter only had 22 Twitter followers who were "mostly hot young girls that want me to look at their webcams," Ingels blogged. Though Ingels says Adams did return a month later to tip him and apologize, the damage had been done.
Barney's Corporate found his Twitter account, which at the time was listed under his full name, and pushed his manager to fire the waiter of five years over the Twittering after complaints -- despite the fact that he never said where he worked in any of his Tweets.
"I understand they want to keep a safe environment for the celebrities and I think that I broke that safety," Ingels told Slashfood. "Had they come to me and said you need to take this down or change it to private, had I been told if you don't do this, you're going to lose your job -- I would've done that."
The Beverly Hills Barney Greengrass declined to comment to Slashfood, as did Adams' manager.
On Sept. 23, Ingels Tweeted, "Working at the LA Opera today. WooHoo a job!" He later added, "That is all that I'm gonna write about THIS job." Ingels, however, is still unemployed and looking for another full-time job.
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10-02-2009 @6:59PM jay said... when you are working as a waiter all you are is the guy that brings the soup, nothing more. dont like it? don't be a waiter
everyone in LA is an actor so attempting to treat everyone as if they were some sort of rising star would be foolish
he should have been fired as his twitter would make it a poor choice for celebs to go to that establishment, the choice to fire him was a good business decision
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10-02-2009 @11:09PM olaamigoquepasa said... If you don't want people twittering about you because you are a bad tipper - leave a tip. People who treat service workers poorly deserve the scorn the get because of it. When I go out and someone I'm with acts like a jerk, I don't go out with them again.
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10-03-2009 @10:35AM D said... Jane Adams needs every penny she can get, you don't get mayy jobs in hollywood being that fugly.
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10-03-2009 @10:56AM Emily said... All I have to say is that if you're tweeting about so and so, and about your job, make your account private. If you want to make money or something from it, go to Page Six.
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10-03-2009 @2:42PM Jon Davies said... I've been in the industry for years, and it's hard for those who haven't waited tables to get it.
My fave video blog right now is this waiter on YouTube who says what so many of us in the industry think and feel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/YourDailyTip
He's funny, bitter, cute, angry, satirical, and most of all... truthful.
I've seen his channel grow from just a few subscribers to over 400... he deserves it to grow a lot more, I think.
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10-04-2009 @10:14AM korebelle said... Is anyone else less likely to be sympathetic to this waiter's story since reading Hanna Raskin's posts?
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10-05-2009 @6:52AM meshella said... Celebrities are exposed to this kind of situation because they are famouse! So if you don't have money to tip don't go out to eat. Waters make less than minimum wage. Tips are their source of income.
And Jay a waiter is not just the person that brings you the soup they can spit in your soup too.
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10-05-2009 @8:54AM Nick said... I never liked the fact that tips are pretty much mandatory. If you want more pay get a decent job. Tips should only be a bonus and only change that the customer had left over, if that's what they want to pay.
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10-05-2009 @8:57AM hivno said... I think thereis a "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" law about this type of thing. If I were the waiter I would sue the hell out of the celebrity and the resteraunt. You should not be fired if you are speaking the truth.
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10-05-2009 @9:08AM phil said... Nick...you're a dick. Leave "the change leftover????" You are classless and clueless.
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10-05-2009 @9:06AM pat said... Sorry, but you are wrong, it was a horrible business decision. It yielded the worst possible outcome. They wanted it swept under the rug and now it's headline news on Netscape. If they had gone to him and told him to clam up it would have been over with, 22 twitter followers knew about it before, now millions are reading about it.
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10-05-2009 @9:17AM derrick said... Twitters are losers...get a full time paying job and dont beg for money as do waiters and panhandlers
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10-05-2009 @9:28AM endcorruption said... The SHOULD HAVE gone to the waiter FIRST, BEFORE FIRING HIM (he never even had mentioned the name of the place he worked at)!
But on the other hand, TIPS SHOULD ONLY BE GIVEN WHEN A WORKER GOES ABOVE & BEYOND...WHY THE !@#$ ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GIVE TIPS TO WORKERS WHO ARE MERELY DOING A JOB THEY WERE HIRED TO DO PROPERLY?!?!?!?! REVOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Btw, waiters SHOULD BE paid a higher salary by their EMPLOYER.)
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10-05-2009 @9:31AM kimaada said... I dont think you should have been fired...if it was against policy the company should have given warning...and who the hell is Jane Adams anyway and who cares....wanna be celebs or The Celebs even OPrah should not have that kind of power when people are dying and hungry and killing each other in America....KTF Keep the Faith
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10-05-2009 @9:38AM Ihatejerkrichcelebs said... To make comments on Twitter during your off work times is YOUR business.
What's next? Being fired for the color of your skin?
I mean really.......has this society fell off it's rocker?
This jerk celeb. still has her cushy million dollar a day job ; this waiter doesn't. That's right america....keep kissing their butts. Soon , allowing this behavior of firing on a whim, we'll all be out of work soon, except for these whine and cheese crying mongrels (so called actors that half of them cannot read scripts to save their life)
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10-05-2009 @9:41AM Cat said... By Golly, if you don't want your life and actions scrutinized and reported by everyone you come in contact with, THINK before trying so hard to become a celebrity!!
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10-05-2009 @9:40AM Ihatejerkrichcelebs said... The jerk actress should have paid her bill. Deadbeat.
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10-05-2009 @9:43AM vickey said... there are some people out there that think the wait staff is some one who is one step from the gutter. these people work for a living with kids to support too. Jobs are some times hard to come by, or it's a second job just to make ends meet. they work dam hard for thier money. The tips are the only thing that makes waitressing a better jobs. I'm not rich but I feel that people should pay at least 20% of what ever the bill is. If others only knew what bull that these poor waitresses and waiters have to put up with. Managers that don't know how to manage. Or they are power crazyed, and then some customers that think they are the only ones that needed to be waited on. i say what people do on their owe time or their owe space is up to them. If he did not even mention the resturant's name then why fire him. Stupid, stupid, so caled management.
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10-05-2009 @9:44AM jen said... how many years do we need to repeat the same thing before people get a clue? don't put things about your work on websites. your job will see them and if you have something bad you will be fired. you really can't say you didn't know.
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10-05-2009 @9:53AM sharonswlfire said... I worked at a corporate job in a professional office environment FRANKLIN TEMPLETON & my Asst. Supervisor (by title only not duties) called me a F* B* IN FRONT OF ANOTHER EMPLOYEE. I quit over it & was denied unemployment, they said I should've done more to keep my job, instead of "only" documenting the incident to HR. If I had a little help, I would've sued them in a civil case for millions, instead I was without help & ended up without a job & without unemployment. I live in FL where 16% of the population doesn't even have a job right now !!!
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