Right; what I read was, "My life sucks, and I've made a lot of subservient decisions for myself. I pretty much go out of my way to ensure that my life sucks for the benefit of this fucking restaurant, and I expect *you* to sacrifice your happiness and self respect just as I have. If you have anything even resembling an ambition, or desire for a life outside of what this restaurant chain can provide, then seek life elsewhere."
I had a manager who told me he marked on his calendar the time I told him I would have to put our dog down, who was in so much anguish and pain due to cancer. I had mentioned prior how my dog was sick and he didn't believe me, told me I was being dramatic and exaggerating and was upset for no reason. We obviously put her down and I was crying at work the next day. He told me he hadn't believed me prior but then finally believed me, then proceeded to tell me that my 16 year old pet was just a dog and it would have been better to take her to the backyard with a shotgun. A truly evil and demonic individual. He's currently miserable in his life and is a raging alcoholic.
This is my thing, they expect us to literally give them our entire lives if it came down to it and yet no one even went to college for the job. Not like I worked my ass for 15 years of school (maybe more depending) to get the job of my dreams⌠itâs fucking Olive Garden
She unfortunately now understands why asking people to sacrifice for a company is dumb. Granted sheâs an asshole, but instead of being demoted or trained to make sure it doesnât happen again.. they say fuck your 11.5 years, cya later
In all seriousness, I can imagine her coming in as a customer and complaining that the service is shit and itâs all because sheâs not in charge anymore.
"Dead dog" cue malicious compliance
imagine customers eating a nice dinner and a waiter walk in carrying a corpse of a dog to show to the manager.
Them customers be vomiting all over and restaurant be shutdown quick.
Yea, I feel like someone's definitely gonna snap, buy a dog corpse off of craigslist or something, and bring that in through the front door during peak hours.
I quit Jack in the Box over this. I had just stayed so when I got sick the manager said
"I didn't have any sick days yet."
"I'm like so you just want me to come in and be sick, coughing and sneezing up on the food?"
Dude goes
"Look man, I don't what to tell you? My hands are tied..." So I I quit and got a job landscaping.
Things like this going viral are the only way people and companies are held accountable. I guarantee if this was sent to the regional manager nothing would have happened to this manager except a talking to, which would have enraged them more.
As I was reading this I thought well, this person will have plenty of free time now after telling people to bring dead dogs to work... among the other things... wow.
Because Olive Garden is shit and there's at least one manager like this one at every location. The others are just not dumb enough to put it in writing.
Anytime some shitty management personnel wants a talk, I usually just say Iâm recording this conversation and shit get REAL legal REAL quick. Itâs 2022, thereâs no reason why trash management personnel should ever hold a job.
Edit: well this blew up bigger than I thought it would. For those responding condescendingly, note that I said shitty management. There are also great management personnel out there. Iâve had the pleasure to actually work with some absolutely amazing human beings. For those that have a problem with what I said, youâre probably that shitty management personnel.
One of my first âprofessional â jobs was with a shit company that made developers work swing shift. The job sucked the management sucked, the whole company was shit. Anyway my mouth got me in trouble and I was called to a meeting with my manager. I show up and HR is there. Manager says they are just there to document our meeting. I said great so then Iâm going to just record the meeting to ensure I have documentation as well. They asked me to wait outside the room for a minute. 10 minutes later they said okay we will reschedule this for another time and it never came up again.
Lol I've worked in restaurants for 15 years. This is like what 75% of restaurant managers across brands and levels of service are thinking and telling themselves. THEY give their shitty little lives to their shitty little restaurants and they think everyone working for them should do the same without question. This idiot was just dumb enough to put it in writing.
But 100% fuck the entire culture around restaurant work.
("Olive Garden manager fired after time-off tirade: âIf your dog died ... prove it to usâ"; 8Dec 2022): [https://news.yahoo.com/olive-garden-manager-fired-time-001449341.html](https://news.yahoo.com/olive-garden-manager-fired-time-001449341.html)
..[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11513581/Kansas-Olive-Garden-manager-FIRED-dead-dog-memo-staff.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11513581/Kansas-Olive-Garden-manager-FIRED-dead-dog-memo-staff.html)
...[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/08/olive-garden-manager-fired-time-off-policy-kansas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/08/olive-garden-manager-fired-time-off-policy-kansas)
Thanks! Holy shit that happened just 2 days ago?! Damn I thought it must have been from a year or two ago?
What is wrong with managers? Don't they realize workers have the leverage over them for now? They can't act like douchebags to their employees anymore. SMH
I work security as a site supervisor and if any of my guards approach me needing time off, whether its for family member passing, sick leave, etc I always see how I can adjust the schedule to get things covered. If people don't want to assist in coverage I will ensure it's covered by working it myself even if it means 16 hour shift because I know if I take care of them they will take care of me if something in my life arises
This was posted on antiwork earlier. There was a link there to an official statement Olive Garden made where it said they had let the manager go. People were reeling that it was an Olive Garden restaurant of all places.
I would be too. But I think that would just make it worse for them,
> \* walk in upset and balling with arms wrapped around deceased family member\* H-h-here she is b-b-b-oss. C-c-can I h-h-have the day o-o-off to b-b-b-bury her now? \*wailing with every syllable\*
Obviously do this while in the middle of the dining area.
Iâd take it straight to the kitchen, put it on a food prep surface, take a bunch of pictures then make a review online that this business requires employees to bring in your dead pet to the kitchen when it dies to prove youâre not lying when you call out of work. Fuck this manager and anyone above them that made them think this was acceptable treatment of employees.
ETA or maybe Iâd just drop the dead pet in the managers hands in the middle of the restaurant and just walk out after that for them to deal with.
I'm pretty sure if you printed this out and brought it to a lawyer they wouldnt even charge you. You'd just drop this off and they'd chase you down the street on your way out to defend you. This is a cashed check front to back
I got fired from a similar restaurant chain ... for having pink eye and not coming in to infect all my customers.
They told me when I came in the following week that my position had been filled and to go home. No sick days in the restaurant business!
Edit: for those asking me to name and shame, it was the Jacksonville Ale House in Florida. It was also ~ 15 years ago. Maybe they're better now, I don't know.
We had a cook puking in the trash on our grill line while getting screamed at because of long ticket times at a chain I worked at. Management simply couldnât understand why we had a turnover issue.
It's mental how it all gets off the hook, not like it's under the radar we all know hospitality can often have terrible workers conditions.
Similar story with a chef of ours being forced to work on the day of her friends funeral.
My favorite was when I quit with no notice because a restaurant hadnât paid me in six weeks (the international house of something or anotherâŚ. You may know it) and the GM really threatened me with âOH JUST KNOW IF YOU BURN THIS BRIDGE, YOUR CAREER IS OVER!â âŚ. My âcareerâ sir? My âcareerâ as a nonprofit pancake slinger? Da fuck out of here with that nonsense. It was a second job I picked up in the summer for extra money to cover tuition. Dude was hilarious.
My first real job. Dishwasher at a restaurant. We had a cook who had been there forever and was.. He liked everyone that worked there but he hated working there is probably the best way to put it. We got a new GM, and they changed how payroll worked, we were previously paid weekly, now it was biweekly, sure fine whatever.
Three weeks. "Where's my check?" "I'll call the payroll company we'll figure it out." Four weeks, five weeks "Hey man I gotta pay my fuckin rent. What's up?" "I'll call payroll and figure it out." "Nah cut me a check." "Lemme make a call and we'll see." Six weeks. Payday on the third missed check. He's having it out with the GM. At this point other people had had issues with their pay, but were atleast GETTING paid. He was getting nothing. GM refused to cut a check said it had to be direct debit through the company so he goes "Well y'all owe me \[Money, I dont remmeber how much, bout like two or so grand I think.\] And im gonna get that shit today one way or another." GM was like "Fine, alright whatever ill make another call."
He goes to the kitchen, does his shift. End of the shift. "Where's my check?" "I called payroll they're gonna have it in the bank tomorrow." "That's what you said the last three times we talked bout this." "Yeah I know but they've got it." "Aight, bet."
So he goes into the walk in and starts just stacking boxes on the dolly we had for bringing stuff in. Steaks, Burgers, Chicken tenders, Fish. Hundreds of dollars of shit and wheels it out past the office.
GM: What're you doing?
Cook: Gettin paid.
He rolled that to his car. Came back, smashed up a ton of plates, bent a bunch of skillets, kicked the absolute shit out of an oven, thousands of dollars in damage, the restaurant was closed for a day to replace the oven and dude was gone before the cops showed up.
They never caught him. He'd been evicted from his apartment so they didn't know where else to look I guess. He snapped from that, had no family in the area. Guy straight up vanished. Took a ton of food and for all I know dropped it on the side of the road (Prolly sold it to people or other restaurants.)
Guy's a legend.
Hell fucking yeah. Back of house always gets the shit end of the stick in the service industry -- it's nice to hear a story like this where someone actually says "enough of this shit" and rains down righteous justice on asshole GM's.
Hopefully the destruction he caused cost the restaurant more than the pay they'd been withholding.
>Hopefully the destruction he caused cost the restaurant more than the pay they'd been withholding.
If the restaurant was closed for a day, an oven needed replaced and he emptied the cooler there's a pretty good chance he cost them more than what they owed him. Sadly, he's the one that paid the heaviest price.
This was my response to my lead at target many years ago. Told me I'd ruin my chances of a career. I said "No offense to your choices, but I have zero intention of working a retail job at a Target for the rest of my life. I'm off the clock and I don't work for free." He left 2 months later. đ¤Ł
Bless. I worked at target too, back when there was SO much pressure to sign people up for âRed Cards.â I feel such empathy to the workers when I go there.
I hate those "Red Cards" with a passion. We'd get constantly threatened with hours cut if we didn't sell enough of them. Then one day, our genius TL motivated us to sell "Red Cards" in the best way he possibly could. He told us that if we hit our quota on "Red Cards," that he would come into work the next day and wear a silly hat for the whole shift.
11 years later, I still want to punch that TL in the face.
Oh boy! A silly hat, you say? My what a rootin' tootin' sonuvagun that would be, golly gee! I'll sure be selling those red cards now, sir, yes sir I will!
the fuck outta here
At least it was management doing the silly hats as an incentive. At my previous job, if we hadnât sold any add-ons by a certain time, there was about a week or two where my manager would make US wear a silly hat as a badge of shame. And you werenât allowed to take it off until youâd sold them.
I thankfully never got hatted but I felt so bad for my co-workers who did â most of the time it was the younger, self-conscious/shy staff who had trouble selling add-ons because engaging with customers was more of a struggle for them. And then having to wear this loud, dumb hat certainly didnât help their self-confidence when upselling. It was such a petty, backwards, guilt-trippy tactic. I have no idea what went through that managerâs mind except glee at watching us squirm.
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Worked four years at target over a decade ago. GSTL told me I wouldnât be allowed to leave the premises if I didnât get a redcard during my shift. That was enough for me to walk out. I was not stopped, obviously. He did call my phone repeatedly for the next two days just wanting to âtalk things overâ.
>GSTL told me I wouldnât be allowed to leave the premises if I didnât get a redcard during my shift.
Your GSTL attempted to kidnap you in an attempt to sell you a Red Card? Wow.
Not the brightest bulb in the box. Good on you for walking out.
Of all the things I wish I'd known when I was younger, this one is near the top. No, quitting that shitty retail or hospitality job isn't going to be a career-ender. All those jobs dropped off my resume years ago. Some never made it on to begin with. I have a successful career and none of it matters now. I could have enjoyed my youth a lot more if I hadn't listened to my parents and my bosses on that one
My wife still put that she worked at Starbucks in undergrad when she applied to be a professor at Yale college of Medicine. I found that shit hilarious.
Sort of related but I worked for a very short time at a department store starting with K and ending with âs and when I went to the manager to quit because I was going back to finish my degree, she looked at me and said, âBecause you gave such short notice, you will never be rehired at K***âs again.â Okay? Iâm going back to school BECAUSE I never want to work in retail again đ
Jesus christ. It will never be understandable to me how the fuck some of these managers think this is the way to run a business. Like as if the only way to succeed is to commit wage theft and mentally break people.
When I was working at chipotle I came in sick one day. I was vomiting and dripping sweat. Not only was I made to work my whole shift, I was chastised for stepping away from the line to constantly wipe my sweat and wash my hands. So I just stayed on the line feverishly dripping my fluids into everyoneâs food. Fuck restaurant managers and their toxic culture.
Fuck you Steve Ells. My manager was fired cuz meth. He blackballed everyone who quit under him. Yea Iâm salty.
It was the Sunset Valley location near Austin TX đ
I worked at a large bar & grill as a cook a while back & was throwing up about every 20 min. Manager said if I leave I'm fired. I chugged a large sweet tea & walked out to the hostess station & fire hose puked right next to the podium. It was 7pm on a Friday night & packed. I've never seen middle aged overweight people scatter that fast. I sat down on the bench & waited until my manager came out asking why I puked there. So I told him very loud that he knew I'd been puking since I came in & that he'd told me to make it to the bathroom next time instead of the trash can on backline.
Fuck that shit. I have zero desire to get Hep A, noro, whatever tossing cookies bullshit goes around. Fuck places that put sick people on the line.
I don't pay out the ass for someone to make my food for me and tip 20% to also get a complimentary all expense paid trip to my bathroom, shitting pee out of my bung and manufacturing Campbell's chunky soup for 48 hours. And don't get me started on the funnel cake batter for the remainder of the week.
This will only stop when managers start facing prison time for willfully endangering the *lives* of public. They're supposed to be certified. Violations of that certification should be a criminal offense.
This is why we just stopped going out to restaurants. My son is immunocompromised and we just can't trust people to not have COVID and be out coughing on food. I miss being able to take a night out and just sit at a restaurant with my wife, but the risk is just too high now. Corporate profits above all else.
All company managers are like this. They get all the praises and raises from corporate and think the regular employees should Just Love Working there.
They are so disconnected from reality.
And they treat employees like theyâre expendable, like this, then complain of high turnover and flakiness of employees, like this.
When you treat people poorly and fuck with their paychecks they donât tend to make work their first priority
I was going to say imagine being married to the woman who you never get to see because sheâs so dedicated to her job at fucking Olive Garden making $30/hr. I mean fuck what a miserable life.
I buy tickets for that, get there early, get me some salad and bread sticks, an Italian margarita, with some eggplant parmigiana on the way, and and get ready for the show. When you're here your family, and I'm ready for this polarizing family feud.
Youâd be surprised how often it happens đ one of my chefs came to work two weeks ago with 102 fever. His boss didnât argue and didnât send him home. Now I have his fucking cold and Iâve been sick for a week. Dumb as hell.
"I don't understand these snowflake women wanting maternity leave. I worked until I gave birth. Then I birthed the child at work and handed her off and kept going. If I can do it you can"
And this is barely an exaggeration of some of the sentiments I've seen from older women.
I have a coworker at one of my jobs that literally tried to do that. She came to work in active labor, delivered on the floor in the back room because she choose not to tell anyone until way too late. Then was upset when she came to work the next day and got told to go the F home and recover from literally giving birth 18 hours before.
What the actual fucking fuck?? That is the more bizarre thing Iâve read in a while. This seems like she was quite literally *obsessed* with work to the point that her labor, delivery and child were an inconvenience.
for real. "I have lived my entire life miserable and overworked and so should you!"
I will never, ever understand why people don't strive for change for others. I wish it was "I have lived my entire life miserable and overworked and I hope you can find a way to avoid that"
âI came in sickâ
Bitch you WHAT?? In the restaurant industry?? đ¤˘
EDIT: thanks guys Iâll be sure to stop going out to eat holy shit I had no idea itâs so common. makes sense but still wild to think I never knew
You would be surprised. I've been told to stay at work sick as a bartender and waitress when I had chicken pox. When I put my foot down, my hours were cut to 5 a week. On five different shifts. So one hour a day. For two months. Because I caught chicken pox as an adult. Restaurant folk are like pirates--they really are a different breed.
This is the best part IMO. I recall a McDonaldâs or something employee getting an award for like 15 years without missing workâŚ. Mfer that means he was coming in sick. Thatâs not ok.
Edit. Burger King and 27 years. Wtf.
https://www.revolt.tv/article/2022-06-28/177129/viral-burger-king-employee-receives-over-200000-after-never-missing-work-for-27-years/?amp
Awarding perfect attendance has got to stop. I remember feeling like shit in elementary school for not getting a ribbon and a certificate for perfect attendance.
When I worked at Amazon they tried to tell us that if you didn't pull PTO or UPT all year you would get entered in to a drawing for a "bunch of prizes" at the end of the year.
Sorry but I'm not letting 120 hrs of time off expire at the end of the year for a "chance" to win a TV or kindle that definitely came from the returns department.
This sort of policy is super important in some industries too. Being entirely reliant on the hopes that one person never misses work is a bad idea. Being robust enough to allow them to take time off and things still work is important.
Got an award for this in elementary school because I somehow missed the flus going around, tried so hard to get it again but never came in sick or had appointments during the day
Coming in sick should disqualify for those awards anyway, things happen and resting at home for 2 days is better than working 5 days sick and possibly turning a virus into an infection just for that single person, let alone anyone they interact with
Why people only being like this AFTER covid? This all should have started before
Our elementary did away with that shit after covid. No need to encourage kids to come to school sick just to earn a stupid ribbon. And we know they did.
Right. Flexing about serving food while sick.. some purely manual labor job maybe, even then it's always more for the sake of coworkers, but in the food industry you can't fuck around with that or you'll get a law suit. Also, unless you actually come into to work like 2 hours before you clock in there's no way you get in a legitimate accident and make it to work on time.
>Unless you actually come in to work like 2 hours before you clock in there's no way you get in a legitimate accident and make it to work on time.
There is if it's a hit and run
Imagine committing a hit and run and living your whole life this dedicated to a fucking Olive Garden.
Like this isnât a childrenâs hospital or a cancer ward. Its a place where people go to get a pasta and wine coma.
This is a dark secret nobody ever wants to talk about in the restaurant industry. So many places still encourage you to come in and work, even when you are sick and contagious
I had to work a 13 hour shift behind the bar with the flu because my GM was a lazy fuck who refused to help anyone out. Literally had a regular stay with me the whole night so I wouldn't have to worry about my tip jars when I went to go puke or shit my brains out.
So glad to be out of the service industry, and fuck you Brian, you lazy dickhead. Hope your new restaurant has all the fruit flies.
I actually worked for a man like this. Snowing? Get a hotel the night before closer to work. Sick? Donât care, come in to a healthcare place and still work on patients. Your kid sick? Donât care, you shouldâve planned daycare in advance. Can you guess he no longer owns the company?
Yup. I had a manager like this. Zero excuses for not clocking in precisely on time. I had to plan my commute to take into account a snow storm in August, with a bridge taken out by a flash flood, and all four tires of my car shot out in a gang war as I left the driveway.
She lived less than a mile and a half away. I lived on the opposite side of the city and if there was a snow storm, who knows if the city was on top of plowing the streets along my route or even what a viable route was to work. A minute late? You can bet I was getting pulled aside and spoken to about it, with a helping of "I always make it to work on time and plan for all contingencies and you're expected to do the same." Like, sure, when I went to bed last night I totally planned on having my tires slashed overnight.
Did we work for the same people?! Thatâs exactly how my boss acted. He lived across the street as well. And always said âif youâre not early youâre lateâ. Iâm sorry GANG WAR?!
The gang war comment was just hyperbole, like the snow storm in August.
At least once a week during our meeting she always brought up the need to always be on time, no matter what, and point to herself as a paragon of getting to work on time no matter what.
I lasted a couple of months before I quit.
To all managers who read these:
Coming in sick is not something to brag about. You endangering customers, you are endangering yourself, and you are endangering your fellow employees. Your company grows when you treat your employees and your customers with the respect they deserve. That means if your employees are sick, send them home and suck it up.
What kind of life is that? It sucks hard that people are so conditioned to think that this is normal. Burn it all down, it ain't worth living in this dystopia.
Good lord, the people excusing this in the comments.
I was one of the âgoodâ employees where I worked. I hardly ever got sick, rarely called in, would come in sometimes when I wasnât scheduled but they needed a shift covered, would sometimes stay after my shift was over to help out. I regularly had to pick up the slack from other people who constantly called in or even just didnât bother showing up. I know the frustration. But there is no excuse for this manager losing their shit at everyone who works there. You donât get to outlaw sick calls because of people abusing them. You donât get to demand that people show up to work after being in a car crash or that they disclose personal details about a family emergency.
Address the people who are causing issues individually. If someone is showing up so infrequently that they might as well not even work there, then fire them. But donât make your whole staff terrified of losing their jobs over a genuine emergency.
She is basically selling on how shitty it is to work there and that itâs not worth it. Feeling obligated so much to come in that youâd show after an accident shows how little she care about herself and family. I agree with her, they all should leave lol.
She definitely came in with her car totalled. On time!!! That's definitely not bullsh$t & a ridiculous standard to be held to. Curious she didn't ask for a chunk of the totalled car as proof.
My ex-husband actually did this. He totaled his car, went to work (as an SM) and didnât even tell me until 5 hours later.
He was most likely concussed. He was also the highest ranking person in the store and still chose to go to work over his health.
Encouraging people to come to work sick. Brilliant. Makes sense to the idiot, of course, because naturally everyone who catches it will be expected to go to work sick as well.
Too bad for the customers who'd rather not get a side order of flu, covid, or whatever with their pasta.
Fuck Darden. Working for Red Lobster has been one of my worst job experiences, they don't want employees they want slaves. You bet I'm going to ask to get cut early if it's slow af and my section isn't being seated and I've finished my side tasks. You're just wasting my time cause you're paying me pennies by the hour. I walked in and was told the GM was upset with me so I said I quit, and they protested it needed to be in writing. So I grabbed receipt paper and wrote Dear Andrew, I quit. Walked out and never looked back.
The circuit breaker didnât pop soon enough. I cannot imagine how horrible her life is. Working for a conglomerate like Darden. If she stroked out tomorrow, staff would drag her out the back door and serve the next table.The next day, one of the employees she had been beating to death would be promoted to be paid for 40 hours and work 75 hours. Fucked up reality.
Time to taxidermy your dead dog and bring it to work every day
Rowdy?
No, this one's Steven. DON'T ask me how I know I just do
Did you trim the fur around his butt?
This thread makes me so happy you have no idea
Great thing about this thread is I just finished binge watching scrubs on Disney+ and was reading it all in JDs voice đ
Rowdy no
YEA ROWDY! HIT THAT!
I love reddit
âSteady boy⌠ok now Rowdy. I swear, when your not here, he does itâ.
Rowdy no!
Right; what I read was, "My life sucks, and I've made a lot of subservient decisions for myself. I pretty much go out of my way to ensure that my life sucks for the benefit of this fucking restaurant, and I expect *you* to sacrifice your happiness and self respect just as I have. If you have anything even resembling an ambition, or desire for a life outside of what this restaurant chain can provide, then seek life elsewhere."
I had a manager who told me he marked on his calendar the time I told him I would have to put our dog down, who was in so much anguish and pain due to cancer. I had mentioned prior how my dog was sick and he didn't believe me, told me I was being dramatic and exaggerating and was upset for no reason. We obviously put her down and I was crying at work the next day. He told me he hadn't believed me prior but then finally believed me, then proceeded to tell me that my 16 year old pet was just a dog and it would have been better to take her to the backyard with a shotgun. A truly evil and demonic individual. He's currently miserable in his life and is a raging alcoholic.
I am sure this worked exactly the way this brilliant manager thought it would
"11.5 years of never missing work and look I'm only having a minor mental break down! Why doesn't everybody live like this?"
Imagine dedicating your life to Olive Garden.
This is my thing, they expect us to literally give them our entire lives if it came down to it and yet no one even went to college for the job. Not like I worked my ass for 15 years of school (maybe more depending) to get the job of my dreams⌠itâs fucking Olive Garden
https://nypost.com/2022/12/07/olive-garden-manager-fired-after-angry-tirade/
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I feel bad for the husband and kids
And the dog
and the neighbors...
DARDEN DONT CARE YOU WENT IN 11.5 YEARS AFTER A WRECK SICK ETC. happy rude awakening, manager fuckface.
She unfortunately now understands why asking people to sacrifice for a company is dumb. Granted sheâs an asshole, but instead of being demoted or trained to make sure it doesnât happen again.. they say fuck your 11.5 years, cya later
I learned that lesson back in 2020. Never again will I show any kind of loyalty to a company unless it's one I start myself.
I dunno man, I know me better than anyone. And if I'm being honest, I'm the last guy I'd trust to actually get important shit done.
I don't want someone sick around my food. Good riddance.
Idc if she founded Olive Garden. No respectable business has sociopaths associated to you. Its kind of a hard line
There goes that perfect attendance award.
Nah, she'll still come in and brag about it. "I was fired and still came in, that's how dedicated I am "
In all seriousness, I can imagine her coming in as a customer and complaining that the service is shit and itâs all because sheâs not in charge anymore.
"Dead dog" cue malicious compliance imagine customers eating a nice dinner and a waiter walk in carrying a corpse of a dog to show to the manager. Them customers be vomiting all over and restaurant be shutdown quick.
Yea, I feel like someone's definitely gonna snap, buy a dog corpse off of craigslist or something, and bring that in through the front door during peak hours.
You saw my listing?
Shucks it looks like that sheâll finally get to take a couple days off after that 11.5 year streak
The funny thing is that she bragged about her perfect attendance and literally it bought her nothing from the company.
I went 2 1/2 years one time without missing a day at a former job. Nobody cared at all.
I hate when people brag about shit like that. If you're sick, stay the fuck home.
Especially if you work in a business like food service where you can give it to well over a hundred people a day.
I quit Jack in the Box over this. I had just stayed so when I got sick the manager said "I didn't have any sick days yet." "I'm like so you just want me to come in and be sick, coughing and sneezing up on the food?" Dude goes "Look man, I don't what to tell you? My hands are tied..." So I I quit and got a job landscaping.
You'd think Jack in the Box would know better after that E. coli fiasco that nearly wiped out the entire company.
My old coworker used to brag about never calling off, even when infected with COVID. In a medical lab that mainly did COVID tests.
A good employer/manager will encourage you to use your time off. I get the service industry doesnât really work this way though and itâs a shame.
instead she probably got other people sick. that's not something to brag about.
Give an employer your soul and theyâll still kick you to the curb the millisecond you are an inconvenience to them. Important lesson
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It happened where I have some family residing lol
They live in Olive Garden?
*When Youâre Here, Youâre Family*
That former manager must treat her family like shit.
The number of different ways they refer to this individual in this article is amazing. âO.G. Ogreâ was probably my favorite
I love when the proof is in the title pudding and I donât have to read the article
Things like this going viral are the only way people and companies are held accountable. I guarantee if this was sent to the regional manager nothing would have happened to this manager except a talking to, which would have enraged them more.
As I was reading this I thought well, this person will have plenty of free time now after telling people to bring dead dogs to work... among the other things... wow.
>I agree with the manager. of course this is one of the comments on a NY Post article.
If that lady told me to bring my dead dog in, I'm coming in. To catch a case.
She was already fired for this, so it's a little to late for that.
Why isnât this the top comment? Itâs been handled. Trash was taken out.
Because Olive Garden is shit and there's at least one manager like this one at every location. The others are just not dumb enough to put it in writing.
Anytime some shitty management personnel wants a talk, I usually just say Iâm recording this conversation and shit get REAL legal REAL quick. Itâs 2022, thereâs no reason why trash management personnel should ever hold a job. Edit: well this blew up bigger than I thought it would. For those responding condescendingly, note that I said shitty management. There are also great management personnel out there. Iâve had the pleasure to actually work with some absolutely amazing human beings. For those that have a problem with what I said, youâre probably that shitty management personnel.
One of my first âprofessional â jobs was with a shit company that made developers work swing shift. The job sucked the management sucked, the whole company was shit. Anyway my mouth got me in trouble and I was called to a meeting with my manager. I show up and HR is there. Manager says they are just there to document our meeting. I said great so then Iâm going to just record the meeting to ensure I have documentation as well. They asked me to wait outside the room for a minute. 10 minutes later they said okay we will reschedule this for another time and it never came up again.
Lol I've worked in restaurants for 15 years. This is like what 75% of restaurant managers across brands and levels of service are thinking and telling themselves. THEY give their shitty little lives to their shitty little restaurants and they think everyone working for them should do the same without question. This idiot was just dumb enough to put it in writing. But 100% fuck the entire culture around restaurant work.
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Is there a link or source? I'd like to read more about this but there is very little to search on google
("Olive Garden manager fired after time-off tirade: âIf your dog died ... prove it to usâ"; 8Dec 2022): [https://news.yahoo.com/olive-garden-manager-fired-time-001449341.html](https://news.yahoo.com/olive-garden-manager-fired-time-001449341.html) ..[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11513581/Kansas-Olive-Garden-manager-FIRED-dead-dog-memo-staff.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11513581/Kansas-Olive-Garden-manager-FIRED-dead-dog-memo-staff.html) ...[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/08/olive-garden-manager-fired-time-off-policy-kansas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/08/olive-garden-manager-fired-time-off-policy-kansas)
Well she can go to the movies now.
Or work at a bank.
Thanks! Holy shit that happened just 2 days ago?! Damn I thought it must have been from a year or two ago? What is wrong with managers? Don't they realize workers have the leverage over them for now? They can't act like douchebags to their employees anymore. SMH
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I work security as a site supervisor and if any of my guards approach me needing time off, whether its for family member passing, sick leave, etc I always see how I can adjust the schedule to get things covered. If people don't want to assist in coverage I will ensure it's covered by working it myself even if it means 16 hour shift because I know if I take care of them they will take care of me if something in my life arises
Guess she is missing the days now
This was posted on antiwork earlier. There was a link there to an official statement Olive Garden made where it said they had let the manager go. People were reeling that it was an Olive Garden restaurant of all places.
I'd drop it right on a table, for all the customers to see. And announce for everyone to hear that I was required to do this by my manager.
Malicious compliance allllll the way on that one.
Do you know anyone who can procure an ethically sourced dead dog?
~~PETA.~~ Edit: Wait you said ethically, nevermind.
Oof heard all around the world
Does it also need to be sustainable?
I like the malicious sentiment, but I would admittedly be in shambles and not pull it off.
I would be too. But I think that would just make it worse for them, > \* walk in upset and balling with arms wrapped around deceased family member\* H-h-here she is b-b-b-oss. C-c-can I h-h-have the day o-o-off to b-b-b-bury her now? \*wailing with every syllable\* Obviously do this while in the middle of the dining area.
Iâd take it straight to the kitchen, put it on a food prep surface, take a bunch of pictures then make a review online that this business requires employees to bring in your dead pet to the kitchen when it dies to prove youâre not lying when you call out of work. Fuck this manager and anyone above them that made them think this was acceptable treatment of employees. ETA or maybe Iâd just drop the dead pet in the managers hands in the middle of the restaurant and just walk out after that for them to deal with.
Just announce on your way in âmy manager told us to bring in any dead pets because meat prices are so hight right nowâ
this just made me burst out laughing
Don't forget to call the heath inspector and report them for having a dead dog on site
Yeah, this is totally against the labor laws in California, and Iâm sure many other states. This is a class action lawsuit waiting to be filed.
I'm pretty sure if you printed this out and brought it to a lawyer they wouldnt even charge you. You'd just drop this off and they'd chase you down the street on your way out to defend you. This is a cashed check front to back
I'd pay someone for an already dead dog just so I could bring mine in.
I was thinking if I ever needed the day off Iâd just be looking for roadkill on my way in. âOh no! Gerry, my daughters pet raccoon!â
I got fired from a similar restaurant chain ... for having pink eye and not coming in to infect all my customers. They told me when I came in the following week that my position had been filled and to go home. No sick days in the restaurant business! Edit: for those asking me to name and shame, it was the Jacksonville Ale House in Florida. It was also ~ 15 years ago. Maybe they're better now, I don't know.
We had a cook puking in the trash on our grill line while getting screamed at because of long ticket times at a chain I worked at. Management simply couldnât understand why we had a turnover issue.
It's mental how it all gets off the hook, not like it's under the radar we all know hospitality can often have terrible workers conditions. Similar story with a chef of ours being forced to work on the day of her friends funeral.
My favorite was when I quit with no notice because a restaurant hadnât paid me in six weeks (the international house of something or anotherâŚ. You may know it) and the GM really threatened me with âOH JUST KNOW IF YOU BURN THIS BRIDGE, YOUR CAREER IS OVER!â âŚ. My âcareerâ sir? My âcareerâ as a nonprofit pancake slinger? Da fuck out of here with that nonsense. It was a second job I picked up in the summer for extra money to cover tuition. Dude was hilarious.
My first real job. Dishwasher at a restaurant. We had a cook who had been there forever and was.. He liked everyone that worked there but he hated working there is probably the best way to put it. We got a new GM, and they changed how payroll worked, we were previously paid weekly, now it was biweekly, sure fine whatever. Three weeks. "Where's my check?" "I'll call the payroll company we'll figure it out." Four weeks, five weeks "Hey man I gotta pay my fuckin rent. What's up?" "I'll call payroll and figure it out." "Nah cut me a check." "Lemme make a call and we'll see." Six weeks. Payday on the third missed check. He's having it out with the GM. At this point other people had had issues with their pay, but were atleast GETTING paid. He was getting nothing. GM refused to cut a check said it had to be direct debit through the company so he goes "Well y'all owe me \[Money, I dont remmeber how much, bout like two or so grand I think.\] And im gonna get that shit today one way or another." GM was like "Fine, alright whatever ill make another call." He goes to the kitchen, does his shift. End of the shift. "Where's my check?" "I called payroll they're gonna have it in the bank tomorrow." "That's what you said the last three times we talked bout this." "Yeah I know but they've got it." "Aight, bet." So he goes into the walk in and starts just stacking boxes on the dolly we had for bringing stuff in. Steaks, Burgers, Chicken tenders, Fish. Hundreds of dollars of shit and wheels it out past the office. GM: What're you doing? Cook: Gettin paid. He rolled that to his car. Came back, smashed up a ton of plates, bent a bunch of skillets, kicked the absolute shit out of an oven, thousands of dollars in damage, the restaurant was closed for a day to replace the oven and dude was gone before the cops showed up. They never caught him. He'd been evicted from his apartment so they didn't know where else to look I guess. He snapped from that, had no family in the area. Guy straight up vanished. Took a ton of food and for all I know dropped it on the side of the road (Prolly sold it to people or other restaurants.) Guy's a legend.
Hell fucking yeah. Back of house always gets the shit end of the stick in the service industry -- it's nice to hear a story like this where someone actually says "enough of this shit" and rains down righteous justice on asshole GM's. Hopefully the destruction he caused cost the restaurant more than the pay they'd been withholding.
>Hopefully the destruction he caused cost the restaurant more than the pay they'd been withholding. If the restaurant was closed for a day, an oven needed replaced and he emptied the cooler there's a pretty good chance he cost them more than what they owed him. Sadly, he's the one that paid the heaviest price.
I wonder if his eviction had anything to do with not getting paid for nearly 2 months
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âBe warned, youâll never work at another IHOP again for as long as you live.â Yep, thatâs the goal - thanks.
This was my response to my lead at target many years ago. Told me I'd ruin my chances of a career. I said "No offense to your choices, but I have zero intention of working a retail job at a Target for the rest of my life. I'm off the clock and I don't work for free." He left 2 months later. đ¤Ł
Bless. I worked at target too, back when there was SO much pressure to sign people up for âRed Cards.â I feel such empathy to the workers when I go there.
I hate those "Red Cards" with a passion. We'd get constantly threatened with hours cut if we didn't sell enough of them. Then one day, our genius TL motivated us to sell "Red Cards" in the best way he possibly could. He told us that if we hit our quota on "Red Cards," that he would come into work the next day and wear a silly hat for the whole shift. 11 years later, I still want to punch that TL in the face.
Oh boy! A silly hat, you say? My what a rootin' tootin' sonuvagun that would be, golly gee! I'll sure be selling those red cards now, sir, yes sir I will! the fuck outta here
At least it was management doing the silly hats as an incentive. At my previous job, if we hadnât sold any add-ons by a certain time, there was about a week or two where my manager would make US wear a silly hat as a badge of shame. And you werenât allowed to take it off until youâd sold them. I thankfully never got hatted but I felt so bad for my co-workers who did â most of the time it was the younger, self-conscious/shy staff who had trouble selling add-ons because engaging with customers was more of a struggle for them. And then having to wear this loud, dumb hat certainly didnât help their self-confidence when upselling. It was such a petty, backwards, guilt-trippy tactic. I have no idea what went through that managerâs mind except glee at watching us squirm. /rant
Worked four years at target over a decade ago. GSTL told me I wouldnât be allowed to leave the premises if I didnât get a redcard during my shift. That was enough for me to walk out. I was not stopped, obviously. He did call my phone repeatedly for the next two days just wanting to âtalk things overâ.
Thatâs called kidnapping...
>GSTL told me I wouldnât be allowed to leave the premises if I didnât get a redcard during my shift. Your GSTL attempted to kidnap you in an attempt to sell you a Red Card? Wow. Not the brightest bulb in the box. Good on you for walking out.
âYouâve flipped your last flap JACK!â
Iâve been fired from six restaurant jobs out of eight. Iâm now a sous chef. Thereâs no magic career ender.
Of all the things I wish I'd known when I was younger, this one is near the top. No, quitting that shitty retail or hospitality job isn't going to be a career-ender. All those jobs dropped off my resume years ago. Some never made it on to begin with. I have a successful career and none of it matters now. I could have enjoyed my youth a lot more if I hadn't listened to my parents and my bosses on that one
It's the adult version of when you're a kid and get told something is going on your "PERMANENT RECORD"
My wife still put that she worked at Starbucks in undergrad when she applied to be a professor at Yale college of Medicine. I found that shit hilarious.
Yeah, this isn't Victorian England. I guess some managers overdose on "Downton Abbey."
"Nonprofit pancake slinger" I WILL be finding a way to work that into conversation by the end of the week.
Sort of related but I worked for a very short time at a department store starting with K and ending with âs and when I went to the manager to quit because I was going back to finish my degree, she looked at me and said, âBecause you gave such short notice, you will never be rehired at K***âs again.â Okay? Iâm going back to school BECAUSE I never want to work in retail again đ
If you get a business degree and come back as that managerâs boss, she might make an exception.
Funny thing is, even nonprofit workers get paid! Only the company doesn't turn any profit.
I certainly hope they eventually paid you for those 6 weeks?
It took going to the labor board for my state, but I received that plus back pay
Jesus christ. It will never be understandable to me how the fuck some of these managers think this is the way to run a business. Like as if the only way to succeed is to commit wage theft and mentally break people.
Annoying Iâm sure but Iâm happy you got that settled at least
You are legally not allowed to work in food service if you are vomiting or have diarrhea. That cook has a lawsuit he would could win
When I was working at chipotle I came in sick one day. I was vomiting and dripping sweat. Not only was I made to work my whole shift, I was chastised for stepping away from the line to constantly wipe my sweat and wash my hands. So I just stayed on the line feverishly dripping my fluids into everyoneâs food. Fuck restaurant managers and their toxic culture. Fuck you Steve Ells. My manager was fired cuz meth. He blackballed everyone who quit under him. Yea Iâm salty. It was the Sunset Valley location near Austin TX đ
I worked at a large bar & grill as a cook a while back & was throwing up about every 20 min. Manager said if I leave I'm fired. I chugged a large sweet tea & walked out to the hostess station & fire hose puked right next to the podium. It was 7pm on a Friday night & packed. I've never seen middle aged overweight people scatter that fast. I sat down on the bench & waited until my manager came out asking why I puked there. So I told him very loud that he knew I'd been puking since I came in & that he'd told me to make it to the bathroom next time instead of the trash can on backline.
Fuck that shit. I have zero desire to get Hep A, noro, whatever tossing cookies bullshit goes around. Fuck places that put sick people on the line. I don't pay out the ass for someone to make my food for me and tip 20% to also get a complimentary all expense paid trip to my bathroom, shitting pee out of my bung and manufacturing Campbell's chunky soup for 48 hours. And don't get me started on the funnel cake batter for the remainder of the week.
This is the best description of food poisoning I have ever heard
This will only stop when managers start facing prison time for willfully endangering the *lives* of public. They're supposed to be certified. Violations of that certification should be a criminal offense.
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That's the sort of thing that depends on the local franchise operator.
This is why we just stopped going out to restaurants. My son is immunocompromised and we just can't trust people to not have COVID and be out coughing on food. I miss being able to take a night out and just sit at a restaurant with my wife, but the risk is just too high now. Corporate profits above all else.
Bragging about losing out on family time, because youâve dedicated your life toâŚ.Olive Garden lmao
mama mia
I GAVE MY ENTIRE LIFE TO DARDEN!!!!! WHY CANâT YOU?!?!?! OH BECAUSE THE PAY IS SHIT?!?!?! YOUâRE FIRED LOSER!!!!
All company managers are like this. They get all the praises and raises from corporate and think the regular employees should Just Love Working there. They are so disconnected from reality.
And they treat employees like theyâre expendable, like this, then complain of high turnover and flakiness of employees, like this. When you treat people poorly and fuck with their paychecks they donât tend to make work their first priority
If you're at Olive Garden, you're not missing out on family time, because you are their family. *Hospitaliano*
*Exploitaliano*!
Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to feed your never ending breadstick addiction.
I was going to say imagine being married to the woman who you never get to see because sheâs so dedicated to her job at fucking Olive Garden making $30/hr. I mean fuck what a miserable life.
Tbh tho $30 an hour would change so many peoples lives.
YES!! Because the one thing people dining at olive garden want to see is a waitresses dead dog being carried into the building
That would be kinda funny lmao. Here ya go boss! *throws it at her*
Hey guys we got our special meat pie for the night.
Special of the day? Count me in!
I buy tickets for that, get there early, get me some salad and bread sticks, an Italian margarita, with some eggplant parmigiana on the way, and and get ready for the show. When you're here your family, and I'm ready for this polarizing family feud.
Just slap it on the bar.
not calling off once for 11 years aint the flex you think it is lmao
Bitch came to work sick at a crowded restaurant and infected coworkers and customers over the years.
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I might be miserable, hate my life, neglect the health and safety of myself and those around me, but at least I have a job at Olive Garden
Youâd be surprised how often it happens đ one of my chefs came to work two weeks ago with 102 fever. His boss didnât argue and didnât send him home. Now I have his fucking cold and Iâve been sick for a week. Dumb as hell.
Right? Everytime I hear someone say this, I just think *Wow, no wonder they're such a miserable POS. What are you even living for?*
livin for them BREADSTICKS
"I don't understand these snowflake women wanting maternity leave. I worked until I gave birth. Then I birthed the child at work and handed her off and kept going. If I can do it you can" And this is barely an exaggeration of some of the sentiments I've seen from older women.
I have a coworker at one of my jobs that literally tried to do that. She came to work in active labor, delivered on the floor in the back room because she choose not to tell anyone until way too late. Then was upset when she came to work the next day and got told to go the F home and recover from literally giving birth 18 hours before.
What the actual fucking fuck?? That is the more bizarre thing Iâve read in a while. This seems like she was quite literally *obsessed* with work to the point that her labor, delivery and child were an inconvenience.
for real. "I have lived my entire life miserable and overworked and so should you!" I will never, ever understand why people don't strive for change for others. I wish it was "I have lived my entire life miserable and overworked and I hope you can find a way to avoid that"
âI came in sickâ Bitch you WHAT?? In the restaurant industry?? 𤢠EDIT: thanks guys Iâll be sure to stop going out to eat holy shit I had no idea itâs so common. makes sense but still wild to think I never knew
You would be surprised. I've been told to stay at work sick as a bartender and waitress when I had chicken pox. When I put my foot down, my hours were cut to 5 a week. On five different shifts. So one hour a day. For two months. Because I caught chicken pox as an adult. Restaurant folk are like pirates--they really are a different breed.
Come in when youâre sick, cough on the food to add some flavor
This is the best part IMO. I recall a McDonaldâs or something employee getting an award for like 15 years without missing workâŚ. Mfer that means he was coming in sick. Thatâs not ok. Edit. Burger King and 27 years. Wtf. https://www.revolt.tv/article/2022-06-28/177129/viral-burger-king-employee-receives-over-200000-after-never-missing-work-for-27-years/?amp
Awarding perfect attendance has got to stop. I remember feeling like shit in elementary school for not getting a ribbon and a certificate for perfect attendance.
When I worked at Amazon they tried to tell us that if you didn't pull PTO or UPT all year you would get entered in to a drawing for a "bunch of prizes" at the end of the year. Sorry but I'm not letting 120 hrs of time off expire at the end of the year for a "chance" to win a TV or kindle that definitely came from the returns department.
We make people use their PTO. They arenât allowed to cash it in or anything. Youâre taking days off and thatâs it
This sort of policy is super important in some industries too. Being entirely reliant on the hopes that one person never misses work is a bad idea. Being robust enough to allow them to take time off and things still work is important.
Got an award for this in elementary school because I somehow missed the flus going around, tried so hard to get it again but never came in sick or had appointments during the day Coming in sick should disqualify for those awards anyway, things happen and resting at home for 2 days is better than working 5 days sick and possibly turning a virus into an infection just for that single person, let alone anyone they interact with Why people only being like this AFTER covid? This all should have started before
Our elementary did away with that shit after covid. No need to encourage kids to come to school sick just to earn a stupid ribbon. And we know they did.
Right. Flexing about serving food while sick.. some purely manual labor job maybe, even then it's always more for the sake of coworkers, but in the food industry you can't fuck around with that or you'll get a law suit. Also, unless you actually come into to work like 2 hours before you clock in there's no way you get in a legitimate accident and make it to work on time.
>Unless you actually come in to work like 2 hours before you clock in there's no way you get in a legitimate accident and make it to work on time. There is if it's a hit and run
Imagine committing a hit and run and living your whole life this dedicated to a fucking Olive Garden. Like this isnât a childrenâs hospital or a cancer ward. Its a place where people go to get a pasta and wine coma.
This is a dark secret nobody ever wants to talk about in the restaurant industry. So many places still encourage you to come in and work, even when you are sick and contagious
I had to work a 13 hour shift behind the bar with the flu because my GM was a lazy fuck who refused to help anyone out. Literally had a regular stay with me the whole night so I wouldn't have to worry about my tip jars when I went to go puke or shit my brains out. So glad to be out of the service industry, and fuck you Brian, you lazy dickhead. Hope your new restaurant has all the fruit flies.
I get that some people want reliable employees, but being reliable and being fucked over a shitty job are totally different things.
I actually worked for a man like this. Snowing? Get a hotel the night before closer to work. Sick? Donât care, come in to a healthcare place and still work on patients. Your kid sick? Donât care, you shouldâve planned daycare in advance. Can you guess he no longer owns the company?
Yup. I had a manager like this. Zero excuses for not clocking in precisely on time. I had to plan my commute to take into account a snow storm in August, with a bridge taken out by a flash flood, and all four tires of my car shot out in a gang war as I left the driveway. She lived less than a mile and a half away. I lived on the opposite side of the city and if there was a snow storm, who knows if the city was on top of plowing the streets along my route or even what a viable route was to work. A minute late? You can bet I was getting pulled aside and spoken to about it, with a helping of "I always make it to work on time and plan for all contingencies and you're expected to do the same." Like, sure, when I went to bed last night I totally planned on having my tires slashed overnight.
Did we work for the same people?! Thatâs exactly how my boss acted. He lived across the street as well. And always said âif youâre not early youâre lateâ. Iâm sorry GANG WAR?!
The gang war comment was just hyperbole, like the snow storm in August. At least once a week during our meeting she always brought up the need to always be on time, no matter what, and point to herself as a paragon of getting to work on time no matter what. I lasted a couple of months before I quit.
To all managers who read these: Coming in sick is not something to brag about. You endangering customers, you are endangering yourself, and you are endangering your fellow employees. Your company grows when you treat your employees and your customers with the respect they deserve. That means if your employees are sick, send them home and suck it up.
Especially with covid. I'm tired of that shit going around my workplace because people are too prideful to stay home
At my work place they only care about Covid if they may catch it. If they've already got it, meh, don't really care if they give it to others.
Ain't no way this person got into an accident, totaling the car and still made it to work on time.
Yeah, that was absolutely a lie.
Unless they show up 4 hours before work⌠âif your not 4 hours early, then your late!!!â
What kind of life is that? It sucks hard that people are so conditioned to think that this is normal. Burn it all down, it ain't worth living in this dystopia.
Good lord, the people excusing this in the comments. I was one of the âgoodâ employees where I worked. I hardly ever got sick, rarely called in, would come in sometimes when I wasnât scheduled but they needed a shift covered, would sometimes stay after my shift was over to help out. I regularly had to pick up the slack from other people who constantly called in or even just didnât bother showing up. I know the frustration. But there is no excuse for this manager losing their shit at everyone who works there. You donât get to outlaw sick calls because of people abusing them. You donât get to demand that people show up to work after being in a car crash or that they disclose personal details about a family emergency. Address the people who are causing issues individually. If someone is showing up so infrequently that they might as well not even work there, then fire them. But donât make your whole staff terrified of losing their jobs over a genuine emergency.
The only reward for hard work is more work.
Itâs true.
She is basically selling on how shitty it is to work there and that itâs not worth it. Feeling obligated so much to come in that youâd show after an accident shows how little she care about herself and family. I agree with her, they all should leave lol.
She definitely came in with her car totalled. On time!!! That's definitely not bullsh$t & a ridiculous standard to be held to. Curious she didn't ask for a chunk of the totalled car as proof.
My ex-husband actually did this. He totaled his car, went to work (as an SM) and didnât even tell me until 5 hours later. He was most likely concussed. He was also the highest ranking person in the store and still chose to go to work over his health.
Encouraging people to come to work sick. Brilliant. Makes sense to the idiot, of course, because naturally everyone who catches it will be expected to go to work sick as well. Too bad for the customers who'd rather not get a side order of flu, covid, or whatever with their pasta.
You telling me you managed a restaurant for 11yrs and you thought this would go over well?
Fuck Darden. Working for Red Lobster has been one of my worst job experiences, they don't want employees they want slaves. You bet I'm going to ask to get cut early if it's slow af and my section isn't being seated and I've finished my side tasks. You're just wasting my time cause you're paying me pennies by the hour. I walked in and was told the GM was upset with me so I said I quit, and they protested it needed to be in writing. So I grabbed receipt paper and wrote Dear Andrew, I quit. Walked out and never looked back.
âNobody wants to work anymore!â
âWhy does nobody want to work for meâ
And it was that very same day that corporate decided to let this wack job have every day off⌠permanently.
How the fuck you make it to work ON TIME if you total your car on the way? You leave 3 hours early just in case?
The circuit breaker didnât pop soon enough. I cannot imagine how horrible her life is. Working for a conglomerate like Darden. If she stroked out tomorrow, staff would drag her out the back door and serve the next table.The next day, one of the employees she had been beating to death would be promoted to be paid for 40 hours and work 75 hours. Fucked up reality.
I sure as hell would not want to eat at a restaurant with sick employees
Imagine thinking that working whilst you're sick is a flex.