A former server recently went viral on TikTok after confessing that he’d throw people’s stuff away if they didn’t tip well. Gil Cano opens his video with a confession and no apology. “I used to be a petty a– server, bro,” he says. Leave something behind after stiffing him, he claims, and it stopped being yours. “If you left anything at the table and you dared under tip me severely, it was mine.” @gilcanooo Don’t bake baby cus I bite back #server #petty #crazystory ♬ original sound – gil cano Then he names items that might give you pause. “I’ve thrown out passports, I’ve thrown out prescription glasses,” he said. And that’s not even the most jarring revelation. When customers came back to search, he searched right alongside them. “I’m like, oh, no, where is it?” He drops the act at the end of the clip with an insult aimed straight at the diner. You’d think people in the comments would be appalled, but whether fake or real, there were dozens of replies from fellow servers who did the same, apparently. “I threw out car keys last night,” one user wrote. “Left them in the booth and they tipped 12%. No, you’re going to pay a locksmith.” “I threw away a phone once,” another person said. “You didn’t tip $20 now you gotta go buy a phone.” “I’ve kept Ray-Bans and Gucci sunglasses as compensation,” read one reply. AirPods, jackets, rings, the list is long. One person, feeling particularly inspired by the trend, wrote: “Damn, I’m not using my full potential.” The pile-on suggests a shadow economy of confiscated goods, though whether the original video is true is up for debate. Cano, for his part, has since revised at least one part of it. The story is a bit less damning on a second telling After the video garnered more than 140k views and became properly viral, Cano had to walk one detail back. He told BroBible by email that the passport line was an embellishment. “I WANTED to throw away a passport but didn’t.” The glasses did get tossed, he said, and it backfired immediately. The man who lost them came back and went in after them himself, gloves and all. Cano characterized the whole habit as small-scale spite rather than real harm, though the people who’ve lost prized possessions might argue otherwise. The incentive behind this sensitivity towards tips might be worth a second look. Federal rules let a restaurant pay a tipped worker as little as $2.13 an hour in direct wages, so long as tips carry them the rest of the way to minimum wage. The customer effectively sets the paycheck. Cano’s video is a reminder that the customer also tends to leave things behind.