A waitress from North Carolina alleged that she was terminated for posting a TikTok video that has since gone viral, showing a customer dining with an inflatable s*x doll.
“Ok, I’m not supposed to be making TikToks at work, but this calls for it,” server Tara Bjork prefaced the viral video she posted on May 27 from her job at the Restoration Hardware Rooftop Restaurant.
“I work at a nice restaurant in Charlotte, and I need you guys to see what just came in the door,” Bjork continued.
She then rotated the camera to focus on a male diner seated across the room, accompanied by an inflatable female doll placed on the seat opposite him.
According to the server, the doll had yellow-blonde hair and seemed to be dressed in a black sleeveless dress.
Additionally, the man was seen hand-feeding grapes to the doll. The camera then returned to Bjork, who expressed her exasperation by raising her eyebrows and touching her forehead, captioning it: “No words.”
The video quickly gained over a million views, along with a comment purportedly from the man she filmed, explaining that the unusual date was a form of payback for losing a Fantasy Football bet. Bjork later uploaded a follow-up video revealing that she was fired due to the original video.
“[I] knew one of two things was going to happen, it would get no views and I would be fine or, it would blow up and I would be fired,” she explained to the Charlotte Observer.
Bjork added that she “was ready for new opportunities, so it wasn’t too much of a shock, thank goodness.”
“What I saw was him trying to ‘seat’ her, which was mortifying,” she added in a conversation with the radio station 96.1.
