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Waiter Fired for Tweeting About ‘Hung’ Actress Jane Adams
20 Comments | Posted by Ashley in Jane Adams, Twitter, unemployment
Lots of people are losing their jobs these days, but here’s a special way to go: Barney Greengrass restaurant waiter Jon-Barrett Ingels is alleging that he was canned for twittering about the lovely and kooky Jane Adams.
Oh, the dark side of social networking. I’m expecting to see a lot more of this …
From Brand X:
One afternoon, Adams came into the restaurant for lunch. Ingels, 31, served her an order of soup and a lemonade. Waiting on a celeb was nothing out of the ordinary, Ingels said, because due to the restaurant’s proximity to major L.A. talent agencies, actors dine there regularly.
However, what happened next was pretty unusual.
Ingels dropped off the bill, which came to $13.44. Adams’ face turned red as she fumbled through her purse, Ingels said. “I left my wallet in my car!” Ingels recalled Adams saying.”I’m so sorry!”
Ingels told Adams it was OK to go to her car and come back when she found the checkbook. “Her face was plastered on billboards all over town,” Ingels wrote on his blog after the incident. “It’s not like I wouldn’t remember who she was.”
“She never came back that day,” Ingels said on the phone from his home in West Hollywood.
The next day, a representative for Adams came in to pay the actress’ tab — sans tip.
Apparently, Ingels thought this would be a cute story to share on Twitter: “Jane Adams, star of HBO series ‘Hung’ skipped out on a $13.44 check. Her agent called and payed the following day. NO TIP!!!”
Ingels went back to business, working and continuing to tweet about the restaurant’s celebrity clientele, including Ali Larter, Tori Spelling, B.J. Novak, and Mindy Kaling.
About a month after the Adams incident:
… the actress returned. She stormed up to the waiter and slapped three dollar bills on the table in front of him, Ingels said. Clearly caught off guard, Ingels replied, “Thank you so much,” he recalled. “You didn’t have to do this.”
“Well, I read about it on Twitter!” Adams retorted, according to Ingels.
Clearly feeling guilty for the embarrassing tweet, Ingels sent a few more tweets. “I love Jane Adams,” he wrote. A few minutes later, he followed up by declaring her “a great actress.”
Neither Adams nor Barney Greengrass have commented on the situation, but according to Ingels, a manager printed out the waiter’s tweets, reviewed them, and fired him because of complaints from Adams and others.
Tricky, tricky. I see where the guy was peeved: Waiters need tips, people. Simple as that. Now, maybe he was an asshole … I mean based on some of his other tweets — “When did Tori [Spelling] become hot?”, Ali Larter “not wearing a bra” — that may be the case. We can’t know, because Adams isn’t commenting. Could she have let someone know she would be coming back to settle her check? Yeah. And maybe she did. Maybe it was her agent’s idea not to tip. Again, we can’t know.
With Twitter, we can all get our 15 — we can make our lives seem more interesting than they actually may be. And let’s face it: Run-ins with celebs are exciting. I’m not going to throw a pity-party for them, because I think most celebrities get a lot in exchange for giving up their anonymity. I’m glad I’m not Adams, because I wouldn’t want my name plastered everywhere if I made her mistake. I’m also glad I’m not a waiter a trendy Beverly Hills restaurant, because I might not be so closed-mouthed as I’d like to think …
I don’t care who she is, the whole dine-and-dash thing is totally lame. And no tip, really? I’d have called her out on it, too.
I agree. What kind of an idiot doesn’t make sure they have money when they dine out? If a normal person did that the restuarant probably would have called the cops. More Hollywood entitlement BS.
What the hell? Why is SHE the one getting ticked off? Actress or not, it was a 14 dollar tab. Surely that’s reasonable. Plus, no tip? How ungrateful. I really think this woman blew things out of proportion and if she didn’t want to be tweeted, she shouldn’t be famous then now should she? Talk about a bad customer. Pay your damn tabs, Jane, and stop bitching when someone calls you out on your crap.
I bet she never waited tables before.
The actress, I mean. You know she wouldn’t have forgotten to tip if she had.
I think they’re both in the wrong but the waiter is worst. Sure it’s lousy to not come back when you say you will and not leaving a tip is very rarely acceptable behavior. Slandering someone on the internet for something that is quite possibly not their fault (she should be more careful remembering her wallet but I doubt she told the rep not to tip) is kinda mean and probably not the smartest move.
It’s kinda creepy the way these people stalk celebs to that extent. I’m not totally against paparazzi and such and I have been known to buy the odd gossip mag. When celebs are out boozing it up or cheating on their spouses or what not it’s interesting and a price to pay for fame. It’s the columns and websites that say things like “celeb X ate at restaurant Hot Spot and had a caesar salad and ice tea” or “celeb Y was spotted buying some Hanes briefs at Kohls” that bug me. Nobody needs to know that, nobody should even be that interested in that, and that level of surveillance is just weird and intrusive. It’s one thing to photograph them at parties but in the supermarket? Really?
I know there’s no celeb-waiter confidentiality agreement or anything but a little respect would be nice.
OMG Rhonda what planet are you on? If she actually forgot her wallet she would have come back. Did you not read that she didn’t come back? That’s THEFT. She only had an assistant come back After the tweet which btw the waiter had every right to make since he probably had to cover her tab. Waiters aren’t peons, they have a right to complain when people treat them badly. Maybe if you had a real job doing actual work you would get a clue.
Maybe she didn’t have her wallet in her car. Maybe she asked her assistant to take care of it but they didn’t get to it right away.
Maybe the guy was fired because he Tweets about every celebrity that comes in there and the manager didn’t want to lose business. I know I would stop going to a restaurant where I sure to be tweeted about by the waitstaff. He didn’t just tweet about Jane, and a lot of what he said about other celebrities was catty and uncalled for.
If you treat people well why would you have to worry about some dude’s tweet? Waiters only complain about cheapskates and rude assholes.
He’s commenting about customer’s breasts and their hotness. I doubt every single person he’s insulting on twitter did something rude to him. There are plenty of people who whine for no good reason. Look at all the insults you threw at me a couple of posts up which were uncalled for lies that had nothing to do with the post. How exactly did I treat you badly to make you post mean things on the internet about me?
He posted the tweet after the assistant came back, he clearly states that in the tweet. Go back and actually read the post. Geez, why do I always attract the most idiotic trolls?
Maybe because you have a big mouth and you’re all full of yourself?
I’m assuming that when you say I have a big mouth you’re saying that I have my own opinions and I’m able to think for myself. Thanks for the compliment.
Honestly, I’m not going to declare which of the two is “worst”, apparently he had, as Alzaetia said, been making catty tweets for a while. But I would like to call attention to a word very seriously misused: what he said about Jane Adams wasn’t slander. Slander implies falsity, which there was none — heck, he didn’t even embellish. That it was embarrassing to her was entirely her own fault.
Do you like your job (or just want to keep it)? Then don’t use twitter to rant about inane minutia that aggravates you at work. Do you think someone won’t eventually find it?
Christ.
Well said! If you’re going to pull that crap at least do it anonymously so there’s less chance of being found out.
thats is BS he should not have gotten fired however a smarter person would have left anonymous tweets.
He absolutely should be fired for tweeting about customers. Like the article said, Barney Greengrass (which is inside Barney’s department store in the heart of Beverly Hills) gets business from many celebrities, who probably expect a little more class and discretion from the establishment.
If an employee isn’t upholding a higher level of service (by tweeting about hot Tori Spelling, bra-less Ali Larter or forgetful Jane Adams, for example), they should be let go.
This is stupid. There is no freedom of speech. Who cares what a Hollywood waiter tweets? Grow the fuck up, and get a wallet. You don’t like being talked about? Go be a hermit so no one can make you mad. Wah!
What does free speech have to do with this? He was fired, not arrested.