She Wrote A Generous Check For Her Doormen As A Holiday Tip Last Year, But Someone Else Wound Up Cashing It, And The Doormen Actually Called Her Out For Not Tipping Them
Have you ever lived in a building with a doorman?
If so, you may have heard of the old tradition of giving your doorman a nice, hopefully well-deserved tip or gift during the holiday season.
While some people have the means to tip their building’s front desk workers and staff weekly or daily, many save it for the holidays and try to give them something nice as a way to thank them for all they do throughout the year.
One TikTok creator recently told the story of how she went all out and wrote a hefty check for her building staff last year, but someone ended up taking it and cashing it.
Kelsey Barberio (@kelseybarberio) lives in New York City and was feeling a lot of pressure to give the doormen in her building a decent tip as a gift for the holidays last year.
“At the holidays, you’re expected to tip the staff from your building,” explains Kelsey in her video.
“I am perpetually living in fear that these people will think that I am cheap.”
Kelsey explains that because she would see her doorman every day, she didn’t want them to see her as cheap for the rest of her time in the building because she didn’t give them a proper tip.
So, last year, she wrote a big check for her doorman. She handed it off to someone at her building’s front desk and figured everything would go smoothly.
Drobot Dean – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
But then, a few days later, she got an unexpected call from one of her doormen, who boldly told her she didn’t give anyone a Christmas tip.
The call had Kelsey taken aback, especially because she made the effort to hand off a check to someone from the building staff. As it turned out, that check never got around to her doorman.
“I checked my bank, and it had been deposited,” says Kelsey.
Kelsey figured someone had to have been lying to her about the missing check, but it didn’t sound like the doorman on the phone was lying.
She sent screenshots of her bank statements to her doorman to prove that she wasn’t lying about the check being deposited and began doing some investigating.
She was able to get the phone number of the person who had deposited the check, but it wasn’t a phone number affiliated with her building or its staff.
To this day, Kelsey still doesn’t know who deposited that check, and no one from her building ever came forward and said it was them.
Because she had lost that money, she didn’t give anymore to her building staff.
However, it left her with an “icky feeling” and was certainly a downer during her holiday season.
Most of the commenters on Kelsey’s video were other TikTok users who were shocked over the doorman who called her about not getting money.
“That’s ridiculous that they called and asked you,” commented one TikTok user.
“I wouldn’t give them anything again after that call and missing check,” commented another user.
“Sounds like a scam.”
Do you think Kelsey was scammed last year?
@kelseybarberio I still absolutely hate how this situation went down
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