Employers who don’t see the difference between the salary they pay to their workers and tips that are due to the generosity of their customers, this video is for you. Recently, TikToker @zhanball shared a clip where she called out a deceiving barista job listing for Louisiana-based franchise PJ’s Coffee.
“I love being a barista, it just does not pay well,” @zhanball said. So after seeing that she would be making $13.50 an hour, the woman understandably got very excited. “I was like, I’ll go back to being a barista—$13.50 plus tips is an amazing rate for this area.”
Her plans were crushed almost immediately. After an hour-long interview was over, @zhanball said she got offered a position. And just as she was about to feel that wonderful sense of accomplishment, the potential employer brought her down. Turns out, contrary to the promising job ad, the company was only paying barely minimum wage.
This TikToker is calling out PJ’s Coffee for a deceiving job listing that promised a salary of $13.50 an hour
Image credits: zhanball
Image credits: zhanball
The woman received a job offer only to find out that her hourly pay would be way less than the ad had promised
Image credits: zhanball
Image credits: Brooke Cagle (not the actual photo)
The TikToker explained why it's not okay for employers to misleadingly state their pay rate which in reality is based on their customers' generosity
Here is @zhanball's full clip that resonated with many people on TikTok
Someone asked the TikToker to share the email she sent as a reply to the job offer, so this is what she wrote
Image credits: zhanball
To find out what an expert had to say about the incident, Bored Panda reached out to Christine Mitterbauer, a licensed and ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur based in the UK.
“This is completely unethical behavior on part of the company. Following such an incident, the woman should ask herself if she wants to work for a company whose word she can’t trust,” Mitterbauer said and added: “What uncomfortable situations might she encounter in the future given such a misleading start?”
“The company should ask themselves what kind of people they attract; people who are desperate for a job or who don’t have any backbone or ability to stand up for themselves,” Mitterbauer concluded.
