While a lot of the country is still closed due to the Coronavirus, there are certain people who are back in business and making up for lost paychecks.
A guy walked into a barbershop in Denver recently and left a $2,500 tip for his $27 haircut and then another $3,300 for the other employees at the shop.
Ilisia Novotny, the stylist who gave the man his haircut [1], told The Denver Post she wasn’t even planning on working that day, but picked up a shift at the shop – Floyd’s 99 Barbershop at the University of Denver – on the first day it was allowed to reopen. The anonymous customer came in at the end of her shift, just before 1 p.m.
Novotny finished giving him his haircut, and her client got up to pay at the front desk — but on his way out he turned around and assured her “it’s not a mistake,” she told the Denver Post [2].
At the time she was a little confused, but she later found out he was referring to the $2,500 tip he left.
Her co-workers were also given generous tips, including $1,000 for the general manager, $500 for the receptionist, and another $1,800 to be divided among the 18 barbers and stylists working at the location.
“To have someone hand me $2,500, and then come back to give out such generous tips to all my colleagues really just left me speechless,” said Novotny in a statement shared with Fox News [3]. “After not being able to work for the last few months I can’t even tell you how much this means to us all.”
Even the employers at Floyd’s were taken back by the stranger’s generosity, referring to it as a “great story” on Facebook, and praising the “astounding” support [4] their shop has seen since reopening.
What a generous, feel good story.
Keep up the acts of kindness everyone!
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com [5] and is used by permission.
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