Charlotte Server Claims Job Loss Due to Customer’s Blow-Up Doll Stunt, Calls Experience ‘Tough Date’
DEBARYLIFE – After posting a widely shared TikTok video of a man enjoying lunch with a blow-up doll over Memorial Day weekend, the former waiter at a posh restaurant in south Charlotte claims she was fired.
In her 16-second TikTok at RH Rooftop Restaurant in Phillips Place, the server—who went by Tara in an interview with radio station 96.1—says, “OK, I’m not supposed to be making TikToks at work, but this calls for it.” I need you all to see what just arrived to the lovely restaurant where I work in Charlotte.
The diner is shown in the video as it pans in from a distance, looking at the menu while seated at a table. His peculiar lunch companion is stretched out on the chair across from him, her head leaning back against the chair. “I lost my fantasy football league, man,” was the man’s subsequent comment on the video.
The server is shown once more in a flash. She looks at him and utters a sound that suggests, “Oh my, this is happening.”
Moreover, Diner shared details of his rendezvous with the former server, who goes under the alias “t_bjork.” She goes by Tara Eve Bjork on the Instagram account that is mentioned in her bio. She used hashtags like “work vibes,” “restaurant took,” and “server life” in her TikTok video, which she labeled “No words.” Over 2.5 million people have viewed the video on TikTok.
Bjork stated to The Charlotte Observer on TikTok on Saturday night that she “knew one of two things was going to happen” when she uploaded the video: “it would get no views and I would be fine or, it would blow up and I would be fired.”
Thankfully, Bjork stated that it wasn’t too much of a shock because she was prepared for new opportunities. Still, I was kind of surprised by how widespread it became! The parents of one of my friends told me they had witnessed it.
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The Observer tried to contact the diner on TikTok on Saturday but was unable. The Observer also gave the restaurant a call just after midday and left a message for the management, but they did not return it.
Additionally, on May 30, the ex-server uploaded a video of herself responding to the interview with 96.1. That day, she informed the station, that she was not the man’s waitress.
That day, the male customer recorded a TikTok video from inside the restaurant and incorporated a portion of Tommy Richman’s song “Million Dollar Baby” in it.
Using the username papichulo2613, the customer suggested in a remark on the previous server’s video that bringing the blow-up doll to dinner was a form of retaliation for his defeat in his fantasy football league.
The diner captioned his video with the words, “Tough date.”
When she uploaded the video, she was already considering quitting her work, she said to 96.1. Since then, she has launched an Instagram business.
Additionally, she uploaded a follow-up video featuring Tinashe’s song “Nasty” superimposed. She didn’t feel bad about the video or about being fired, according to the text on it.