r/KitchenConfidential • u/tapthisbong • Jul 12 '25
In the Weeds Mode Well this is gonna be interesting
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u/SpicyWokHei Jul 12 '25
Management: "I don't know what happened. She just went crazy!"
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u/olivinebean Jul 12 '25
It's a bit like dating
If a new boss complains about the chefs before me, it's very off putting and makes them look like difficult to work with
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u/garbitch_bag Jul 12 '25
Yep! Went to an interview once where the GM said they have such a hard time finding good people, everyone is flaky and quits after a few weeks. Guess who quit after a few weeks because management was horrible?
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u/zephyrtr Jul 12 '25
If you meet 10 new assholes every day, you might be the asshole.
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u/shmiddleedee Jul 12 '25
This quote really helped me out a few years ago. Turns out I was the asshole. I don't work in kitchens but this sub pops up on my page and I saw this quote. Thanks for the reminder.
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u/geekpoints Ex-Food Service Jul 12 '25
Good on you for allowing yourself to recognize it, it's a hard thing to do.
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u/FoghornLeghorn2024 Jul 12 '25
"Turns out I was the asshole". should be a t-shirt.
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u/25_Unknown_Devices Jul 12 '25
Late one night, laying awake in bed, oooo a realization came. Are there really assholes every where I look, or am I the one to blame? Maybe I just do not say the things I should say, and do not do the things i ought.
So I took a long hard look at my self in the mirror, and this is what I thought:
“The guy who sold me this mirror's an asshole He's an asshole, son of a bitch said it was antique. He was lying, he was lying. Made me want to punch him in his salesman cheek”
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u/DCGeos Jul 12 '25
That was gold, thanks.
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u/25_Unknown_Devices Jul 12 '25
As original as I’d like to be, it’s the last verse from Stephen Lynch’s song “fishing hole”
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u/h3110m0t0 Jul 12 '25
might be.
Or there might be 10 assholes out there, who all have the same issues.
If you put in the effort to correct shitty behavior and do what you can but they still persist on being shitty. Are you really the asshole for holding them accountable while they play the victim/no you card.
Easy to blame the MGMT. If every employee comes in and says I left my job because the mgmt was shitty before, and you can't hold down a job. Maybe its not just the MGMT.
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u/Zen_Hobo Jul 12 '25
"Every single one of the 50 people before you were the most incompetent idiots and never did anything right!"
Yeah. I'll go, now.
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u/sodisacks Jul 12 '25
Let’s be real here. A lot of executive chefs are real shitbags. Our previous executive chef that we fired caused us to lose 4 kitchen staff with span of 3 weeks because he fancied himself to be like the Hells Kirchen Gordon Ramsay and he was also quite racist towards black men.
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u/Playful-Variety-1242 Jul 12 '25
You give her a little bad news and she just flipped out! People these days …
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u/Miami_Mice2087 Jul 13 '25
i mean .... maybe her anger issues are the reason they fired her?
you ever get angry and acted like this in public?
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u/R3353Fr4nkl1n Jul 12 '25
When I was a teen working at Canes, I vividly remember management asking a guy to come in on his day off at 8am(mind you, employees normally got there around 930 or so to open) just so they could fire him. He had worked the night before and was looking rough but always eager to pick up an extra shift. All for $6/hr back then. Hope he’s doing well.
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u/Moushidoodles Jul 12 '25
Had something similar happen when I was a kid working at a local ice cream and coffee joint. Manager called me in on my day off, I wasn't driving yet and my parents were at work so I rode my bike all the way there just to have them sit me down and fire me. Had to ride my bike all the way home while crying. They closed down within the year, fuck them.
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u/007Superstar Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
Custard shop for me. Called me 15 minute before I was going to go in for the day. “It’s raining today so we won’t need you to come in. Actually we don’t need you at all, so you’re all set.”
The saddest part, the person calling me was 1 of the 2 assistant managers who were in college. The mid 40s FT Manager woman made the college guy(s) call people to fire them instead of her doing her job.
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u/Moushidoodles Jul 12 '25
I think one of the worst was a specialty burger spot. They basically hired a bunch of people on with the intent of weeding out everyone through firing them until they had one or two remaining. I made it through the interview and came in for the training with like 7 other people which took about 4 hours. Got my shirt and everything, the next day they call and are like "We've decided to let you go, we would appreciate if you brought back the shirt." Suffice to say, it's buried in my clothes somewhere. If I were older and wiser I would have demanded they pay me for the 4 hours of my life they wasted.
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u/toomanyracistshere Jul 13 '25
The shitty boss from the pizza place that I mentioned in a comment elsewhere on this thread hired me and someone else at the same time. She was let go about two weeks later. I was too young and naive at the time to realize that hiring two people and only keeping the best one was his plan from the start. If I'd known that at the time I would have started looking for another job right away.
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u/Moushidoodles Jul 13 '25
The ethics of it is questionable at best since it's taking advantage of people who want/need a job to rely on. I really hope they wouldn't do something like that to a parent who was trying to support their family. If I knew a location was doing that, I wouldn't give them business. To be fair, that location was also closed the last time I was in town, not sure when it closed, but it was also a little satisfying.
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u/FonzoLatrundo Jul 13 '25
I worked as a sous chef at a restaurant where they provided me with 3 nice cotton chef coats with sailor knot buttons and my name and title monogramed on them. I quit after 3 months because the chef was an alcoholic who drank on the clock while I did his job. About a week after I quit my checking account was debited about $300. I called my bank and they told me it was a “payroll reversal”. The SOB’s had charged me for the coats by taking the money out of my check retroactively.
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u/Rojodi Jul 12 '25
I was fired because I refused to work the day before Thanksgiving when I specifically told the manager and the scheduling manager that I had classes, I had a Calc test. They didn't call the college, just assumed I wanted the day off.
Neither of them called me later to fire me. They made my sister, the shift supervisor who also told them I had classes.
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u/Mr_Biggums Jul 12 '25
That’s so fucked sorry
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u/Moushidoodles Jul 12 '25
Yeah, it was a long time ago. Looking back at being a kid working, I've found most of the managers I worked for were absolute assholes, I feel like they took advantage of the kids working under them because they know most kids don't know better and don't really have the confidence to stand up for themselves. I know not all are like that, but a lot of them are
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u/CanoeIt Jul 12 '25
I got lucky I guess. Got hired on at an Italian place as a dishie at 13, moved to prep at 14, was asst manager at 17. They did give me and the other kid my age there beer and weed tho looking back just WTF
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u/yalyublyutebe Jul 12 '25
A family friend was a regional manager for a convenience store chain. They got him to drive an assistant manager that worked under him across the city tot heir offices so they could fire him. They also gave him instructions not to wait to give him a ride back to the store he worked out of.
My city isn't particularly big, but their plan was basically to abandon this guy on the opposite side of the city.
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u/Unusual_Comfort_8002 Jul 12 '25
My boss and I have basically ignored our higher ups orders because of shit like this.
We had a dishwasher that we had to fire due to attendance issues and they wanted us to fire her when she came in for her next shift.
Thing is girl either took like a 1.25 hour bus and we told them this but they insisted. But we weren't going to make her spend money and 2.5 hours just to get fucked. So we called her instead and guess what it worked just fine.
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u/DownrightDrewski Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
That's just cruel. Why the fuck would they do that?
Did your friend wait around, or, did they do as instructed?
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u/just_a_bit_gay_ Jul 12 '25
Franchise owners can be the biggest power tripping assholes around
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u/TroyMatthewJ Jul 12 '25
real talk - I wouldve given him a ride home then quit myself. f that kind of behavior and lack of not just professionalism but human decency and respect.
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u/ForGrateJustice Jul 12 '25
I was around 20 and working at IHOP as a waiter, the assistant manager called me one morning asking if I could pick up a shift at 8 (it was 7). I said yes so I quickly showered and got there around 10 past 8.
After my shift was done around 1:30, she asked me to sit down and sign something. She had the audacity to write me up for being late.
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u/MossyPyrite Jul 12 '25
I was working the cafe at a hospital one for about a year, with the management telling me they were trying to hire another person the entire time because it was a two-person job. Eventually they sat me down and said basically “hey, you haven’t been keeping up on pre-made snacks and stocking grab-and-go stuff, and we know this is our fault because you’re supposed to have a second person, but we’re going to have to write you up anyway.”
Yeah I went home and emailed the head of dietary and told her I wasn’t coming in tomorrow or ever again. She wouldn’t get there to read the email until about 3 hours after the cafe was supposed to be open lmao.
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u/NoStructure7083 Jul 12 '25
Ngl if I were him I’d have probably been leaving in handcuffs
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u/saturnspritr Jul 12 '25
I’m not saying arson is a solution. But when this kind of stuff happens. . .
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u/Zen_Hobo Jul 12 '25
Of course, it's not a solution. Burning stuff usually leads to aerosols.
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u/QueensPetOH Jul 12 '25
You are officially the smartest redditor 😆
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u/Zen_Hobo Jul 12 '25
It's the same with people saying "alcohol is no solution". Duh. Destillate is the word.
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u/QueensPetOH Jul 12 '25
Not to be the spelling nazi but it's distillate haha
Now we're equally smart redditorzzzz
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u/Zen_Hobo Jul 12 '25
Funny, how English and my native language are just one letter off each other for words like that. Almost, as if someone conquered Europe a while ago and forgot to take their dictionary home. Bloody Romans...
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u/i_was_axiom Jul 12 '25
I'm not condoning anything, but you'd be shocked how quickly an extra large cup of ice can get into every deep fryer at the hands of a determined recently-fired-employee.
Theoretically.
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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jul 12 '25
Yea but that might just be a favor...many a failing restaurant has burned to the owners insurance benefit.
Plumbing is the one people get fucked on
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u/saturnspritr Jul 12 '25
Noted, for creative writing purposes.
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u/FuzziestSloth Jul 12 '25
I mean, it is a solution.
It's not a particularly well thought out or constructive one, but technically, it is a solution.
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u/saturnspritr Jul 12 '25
I left for a week and came back to like a shit ton of awesome new servers. A few hot messes. I asked “these guys are great! Where did they all come from?” Apparently a beloved regular died and they all asked off for the funeral. No one was given off, told since it wasn’t family this was a bullshit excuse to party or something. They all walked out and went to the funeral, all got fired. We got them and it changed our restaurant for the better for years after.
But I really thought Outback Steakhouse was gonna burn down mysteriously. I mean, it was an open discussion and I thought was gonna have to pretend to have heard none of it in an official statement.
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u/BigBallininBasterd Jul 12 '25
When I got fired from my first job, I had to walk a mile to work on my day off first thing in the morning just to get the news. I was so mad all I could do was laugh
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u/dodofishman Jul 12 '25
I had a GM do that to me too, tried to get me come in on my day off to fire me but waited for me to come in, clock in and set up and then she fired me lmfao skdkflskflfkfk
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u/BigBallininBasterd Jul 12 '25
I should have waited til I was scheduled to come in anyway but I don’t know any better.
“How you get fired on your day off” lmao
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u/Vli37 Jul 13 '25
I was fired mid shift before.
I basically finished breakfast and my asshole manager (lazy incompetent), who was barely at the sister location I was at terminated me without cause.
That's what I get after 5+ years at the nonprofit, and for running things when he and my supervisor weren't there and could care less about the place.
I still have friends there that I meet from time to time and they tell me how much worse the place has gotten.
Last I heard (about a month ago), they made budget cuts. The asshole HR rep who terminated me, had to terminate his wife as well as 20 other workers. Must be great he life for him knowing that you terminated your wife and had to walk her out the door 😂
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u/toomanyracistshere Jul 13 '25
I worked at a small family-owned pizza place when I was nineteen or twenty. We went through a period once where they were tweaking the schedule in some very odd ways. One day, the schedule was very weird, with us definitely overstaffed by at least one person. About an hour or two into the day, the police came in and arrested one of the women who worked there. It turned out she'd been stealing from the register nearly every single day that she'd worked there. The weird scheduling was so that the owners could figure out who was stealing through process of elimination. Apparently, after they'd figured out that it was her, they then set up a camera or hired a security agency to watch the counter (they were vague about what they did, exactly) so that there'd be enough evidence to arrest her and then arranged for the cops to come and take her away from work. While beings scheduled to come in just so you can get fired is bad, being scheduled just so you can be arrested is worse. They could have just fired her when they found out, and they could have had her arrested at home on her day off, but obviously they really wanted to have the cops come take her away in front of all of us. The owner was an absolute monster. He was furious a few months later when he found out that she wasn't going to do any jail time.
About 60% of the staff walked out on them a few months after that, myself included. They had to shut down for about a week. I don't really have any sympathy for the woman who was robbing the till every single day, but let's just say that the owner's need to have her arrested in front of us was completely in keeping with how he treated the rest of us most of the time.
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u/hellgawashere Jul 13 '25
I got my first job at Toys R US when I was 16. I was hired during the holidays and was working to save up for this big trip I was going on. After working Thanksgiving, Black Friday AND Christmas at TOYS R US they said that there's a chance they'd keep holiday staff on after the new year. The shift before the new years break they met with everyone individually to let them know if they still had a job. Not a word was said to me. My trip was during the new year and I was excited to come home to a job. The day after performing on the All-American dance team for the Lord Mayor of London and MP's, I was fired on the phone in front of Big Ben from Toys R Us.
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u/TeamAquaGrunt 10+ Years Jul 13 '25
my brother used to work for Canes. they made him come in to work during a tropical storm. he literally had a tree branch blocking his car and their response was "pick it up and move it or you're fired". so he moved it, drove in, and they ended up closing 30 minutes later anyways because of bad weather conditions.
they fired him later anyways because he asked for a raise and they figured they could just hire someone cheaper.
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u/SchmeckleHoarder Jul 12 '25
Worked at a Hilton. They made the dishwasher come in early for his shift too. They knew he had to walk, far too 5 miles plus. Just to fire him when he got there all sweaty.
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u/LaceGriffin Jul 12 '25
Based just never included it in your resume
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u/Bizarro_Murphy Jul 12 '25
"Responsible for setting up and breaking down the breakfast bar"
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u/busy-warlock Jul 12 '25
“…Breaking down in the breakfast bar.”
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u/Weird-Salamander-349 Jul 12 '25
Anyone that hasn’t had a breakdown in a breakfast bar isn’t as good at being mentally ill as I am. It’s like they’re not even trying to be unhinged and concerningly emotional.
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u/SlakingsExWife Jul 12 '25
You still could LOL.
If there’s new management in the future who would ever know?
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u/GoatCovfefe Jul 12 '25
And people ask "should I put a two week notice in?"
No, no you should not.
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u/WillBlaze Jul 12 '25
You should for good jobs that treated you well. Otherwise? Fuck them.
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u/TheLordDuncan Jul 13 '25
Even those good jobs will drop you faster than yesterday.
If I don't deserve 2 weeks, neither do they.
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u/wemustburncarthage 10+ Years Jul 12 '25
Hard call. If you do this there’s a good chance you’re being fired for a reason but if you’ve just been fired after setting that up - and they knew they were going to fire you when they made you set this up - then yeah fuck them honestly.
It really is a tough call because I’ve had employers metaphorically fuck me like this.
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u/stickwithplanb Jul 12 '25
i had an employer fire me at the end of day monday when they knew i commuted an hour each way to get there.
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u/moonunit67 Jul 12 '25
That's standup stuff there! Had a foreman " heads up me" I was being laid off in a week. He had clearly faught to keep me. I was young and broke. He saved my ass with that week notice!
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u/hell2pay Food Service Jul 12 '25
Company I worked for did a mass layoff. Got a call 3hrs before end of shift to come in to the office 6:30 am.
The journeyman I was working with, as well as I knew what that meant.
Dude was like, do you wanna leave now or get a couple more hours. I was deflated af, so I left.
Come to find out, little less than a week my boss on the fire alarm side didn't know I was laid off. She was pissed, and was rehired before I could find anything else.
But yeah, that Friday morning, 13 or so of us had to be at the office that early to just be let go.
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u/pandaSmore Five Years Jul 12 '25
Did you use to be a sparky?
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u/hell2pay Food Service Jul 12 '25
Used to be, and still am too.
I did take a break when I moved states, and worked at a casino restaurant for a while.
But I'm self employed now
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u/wrongbutt_longbutt Jul 12 '25
I had a viral infection that temporarily wiped out my immune system. After discharging from the hospital, I was told to quarantine at home for a week. After waiting a week to go back to work, I showed up Monday, worked the whole day, then they fired me at the end of the day. I noticed all day that there was a weird mood at the office and nobody was really welcoming me back. Word had got out and everyone in the office knew I was going to be fired that day, but they made me work a full day first. I would much rather them fire me over the phone while I was in quarantine so at least I could start looking for jobs while I was stuck in my house.
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u/SailorGone Jul 12 '25
My first job as a teen at Wendy's, I got dropped off by my parents after a 20 minute drive and I was fired at the beginning of the shift. I asked if I could at least do my shift as I'd have to wait to get picked up and they said no. Had to wait for hours to get picked up.
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u/mousemarie94 Jul 12 '25
Were there work days where you did not have to commute an hour each way to get there? Like you worked remotely other days and so they could have fired you on those days instead?
Granted, most places like to terminate employment in person because a text or a phone call is insanely unprofessional.
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u/stickwithplanb Jul 12 '25
nope, it was a factory job doing manual labor. I was young and naive, i got hired to pack boxes for $11/hr. eventually, the dude who made way more than me doing all the shipping and receiving had to take extended leave for surgery. so they say they're going to train me up to do his job. I get a 10% raise for all this, with way more responsibility. i still believe that loyalty and hard work for an employer will be rewarded, so i do it. easy to see where this goes.
what's worse is that it was the Monday after payday, so had i known i was getting fired, i would not have spent that weekend the same way as the others when I was 21.
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u/DigbyChickenZone Jul 13 '25
end of day
You would rather that you commuted there to be seen for 10 minutes, just to be sent packing? I don't see the issue with firing end-of-day.
Or are you annoyed that it was a Monday?
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u/Crime_Dawg Jul 12 '25
That was how my first job let me go. I had an hour and 30 commute, worked a full day Monday, then at like 5:01 they called me into a conference room to fire me. Thank fucking god too, because I got a WFH job right after making way more money. I guess the one saving grace is they did agree to pay me out for the full week.
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u/shadowtheimpure Jul 12 '25
If you're being fired 'for cause' they don't usually give you a chance to fuck even more things up and they just chuck you out the door.
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u/EnvironmentalValue18 Jul 12 '25
100% intentional, especially at food service and retail jobs. I had a serving job where something innocuous got me fired but only after my full shift, putting up chairs, setting up fridges, etc etc,
We counted our money at the very end before we walked out, and my boss just came up and said “you’re fired”. That’s it.
Hardly my only story like this and several friends too. I was even a manager at a restaurant and my GM did this kind of shit to people. If you’re going to fire someone, do it when they come in. Don’t waste their time and make them do work for you so you’re set up for success and then destroy their financials/mood. Fuck that exploitation.
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u/TransBrandi Jul 12 '25
I don't know if there's a good way to do it. Just look at the comments here:
- They had me come in, commute all the way to work, just to fire me!
- They had me work my last shift, just to fire me at the end!
- Why didn't they just call me to tell me I was fired?
- It's so cowardly to fire people over the phone! Say it to my face!
People just don't like getting fired.
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u/EnvironmentalValue18 Jul 12 '25
Of course they don’t. At will is another huge issue that we need to tackle.
Personally, I’d prefer a call so I don’t waste time and money, but I get why people want it in person.
Another avenue that’s already well-implemented is the PIP system. You’re out on it and (generally, at least) given 1-2 weeks paid where you do not work while they review. They’re firing you, but you get a heads up and can start job searching. Additionally, they fire you and you get an additional (up to) 6 mo of unemployment to job searching- of course, this depends on if you have a huge paper trail and can defend the firing.
Additionally, and this is just me being spicy, but it should be a double-punishment. If you hired someone, you get to fire them and it shows a lack of leadership ability on your part. Sometimes that’s a given, so a few will just be warnings and reviews on how to ameliorate those situations or avoid hiring those types of people. After that, you’re more fully tied to it. They get fired, you get no bonuses for that year and are also on a PIP. Impractical and half-baked, maybe, but they should have skin in the game too - especially with at will employment.
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u/Roscoe_King Jul 12 '25
It’s also hard, because even if justified, this may come back and bite her in the ass. Hotel can probably claim a few things and deduct salary or something.
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u/welchplug Owner Jul 12 '25
In most states, if not all, they can't withhold pay. They would have to go to small claims or file a civil suit.
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u/mizz_understood Jul 12 '25
I tell this to my clients on repeat.
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u/welchplug Owner Jul 12 '25
Restraunt owners are some of the dumbest people on the planet. -owner
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u/ImaginaryHerbie Jul 12 '25
Deducting salary from last paycheck would be for things like not returning uniforms or laptops if you signed paperwork at hiring stating they could.
This lady probably didn’t sign anything stating they could deduct the damages from her obviously accidental slip and fall that resulted in the breakfast buffet getting, again very accidentally, destroyed.
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u/Airblade101 Jul 12 '25
I got let go once at the end of my 90 day probation period. Walked in, sat down at my desk, was about to clock in when the boss said not to worry about it and then gave me my letter and asked me to leave.
I asked what was the contributing factor to their conclusion and they said that I was making too many suggestions for ways to make things work a bit better. I just gave them the 'lol wut?' face and went home. Still got paid for the whole day even though getting sent home first thing in the morning.
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u/Physical-Sector9254 Jul 12 '25
The large manufacturing place I worked at had a problem, they were a unionized plant and if you got hired, after a 90 day probation they couldn’t lay you off. The problem was they had a bunch of dead weight on the maintenance staff, they weren’t authorized to hire anyone and they also couldn’t lay anyone off, but still had to get the work done. So what the management started doing was hiring people and laying them off before the 90 days was up. So a guy I know got hired and he was really good but when he got to 89 days he got called into the office. They told him sorry, but you’re gonna get laid off but we will call you next week, so they call him the next week and his probationary period starts all over. So he gets to 89 days again, gets called in the office and gets laid off again so it starts all over. He gets to 89 days again and of course he’s very nervous but nothing happens. The very next day he gets called into the office and they tell him sorry but we’re gonna have to lay you off again. So then he says well today is my 90th day. The boss looks at him reaches out to shake his hand and says, Well welcome aboard. He ended up working there many years.
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u/lazyness92 Jul 12 '25
My guess is attitude. When you're on probation, they usually ask the people who worked with you for feedback, too, maybe it rubbed the wrong way for some people
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u/BlueGolfball Jul 12 '25
I asked what was the contributing factor to their conclusion and they said that I was making too many suggestions for ways to make things work a bit better.
No one wants to hear "suggestions on ways to make things operate better at work" from a brand new hire. That makes you come off as a know-it-all to the other employees who have worked there for years. 99% of the time the new hire doesn't have a good enough understanding of the business to start making suggestions to change stuff at that business within the first 90 days of work.
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u/Affectionate_Pipe545 Jul 12 '25
I'm not saying the firing was justified or that your suggestions were bad, but look up chesterton's fence
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u/Numeno230n Jul 12 '25
I would 1,0000% prefer to be called at home and told not to come in for the next shift. Let me be shitty and bitter and home. Firing someone on the spot at the end of their shift is intentional emotional trauma. Boss knows the whole goddamn day they're going to ruin you but they don't want to schedule somebody else so they let you work. Thanks, great shift! You're fired.
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u/fuzzydoug Jul 12 '25
My wife told me her employer lays people off on Mondays. If you made me get up on Monday, go to work, just to get fired I’d flip.
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u/1970s_MonkeyKing Jul 12 '25
Oh, yeah. If they made the conscious decision to let her go but kept her on long enough to set up because they were short handed - then fuck them hard.
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u/BigTipperTimmons Jul 12 '25
wth is this everybody-hates-Chris-ass narration?
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u/DMCinDet Jul 12 '25
I got fired at the beginning of my shift. They were going to "let" me work the rest of the day. Nah, fuck that. Manager just didn't want to cook or pay someone else overtime to come in and cover. He was shocked when I laughed at him and declined his offer.
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u/toorigged2fail Jul 12 '25
Probably should have said yes and then just left when they weren't looking before you did any work
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u/quetristes Jul 13 '25
Yo imma run to the bathroom rq with my bag and keys imma be right back I swear 2 seconds
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u/wrenbell Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
Corporations and their management always screw over the working class. They squeezed as much labor out of her as they could...and then chucked her out the door at first opportunity. And yet she's the problem for getting angry about how she was treated?! Fuck up that breakfast bar, girl. 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
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u/Rusty_Tap Jul 12 '25
I think this is definitely acceptable behaviour if they knew they were going to fire you and they were just waiting for the "important" people to roll out of bed to do it.
Most of the lunch service is coming home with me too.
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u/saywhaaat_saywhat Jul 12 '25
I brought this charcuterie from home.
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u/pewpew_lotsa_boolits Ex-Food Service Jul 12 '25
THAT’S MY RAMP! I DON’T KNOW YOU!
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u/TheDoctorLXG Jul 12 '25
This makes me so happy that I was there for the ramp days. I’ll always say it now when I see a board
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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jul 12 '25
Considering Bobby's in the food service industry in the reboot....nice
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u/Skarr-Skarrson Jul 12 '25
I’m not sure about acceptable behaviour, but justified yes.
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u/Ninjez07 Jul 12 '25
Maybe "explicable", "understandable" or "relatable" rather than "justified"?
I think "justified" here implies they are in the right, when in civil society going on a vengeful rampage for being laid off shouldn't be acceptable.
But I can certainly understand the rage they might be feeling in that situation, in a place with weak employment laws and ruthless employers.
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u/Mallaceis Jul 12 '25
The lady saying “crash out” the same way we all used to say “world star” lmfao
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u/Ookimow Jul 12 '25
I've had something like this happen to me. They waited to fire me until after I had moved 50+ heavy boxes. I was the only dude working in a store with several petite women.
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u/yalyublyutebe Jul 12 '25
I would have moved them all back out of spite. Or just quickly stacked a bunch up.
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u/Orbit1883 15+ Years Jul 12 '25
im always astound about the lack of employee rights in the us
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u/Quixan Jul 12 '25
current admin is working on getting rid of human rights. that's kind of surprising too.
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u/Ellert0 Jul 12 '25
Well, that itself isn't really surprising but I was surprised the people voted it in to remove their rights.
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u/Quixan Jul 12 '25
more surprising than the vote is the lack of extreme push back on the actions that are being taken.
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u/dirtyenvelopes Jul 12 '25
Management is to blame here. They need to learn better conflict management and how to treat employees with respect.
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u/Lucky-Acanthisitta86 Jul 12 '25
Idk, like why did she get fired? Usually though, it's supposed to be done right when you clock on, though this should honestly change to them calling you before you come in/texting you to call them if you don't pick up.
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u/PrettylightedUMphrek Jul 12 '25
I was fired from a job when I was a teenager, they waited until the end of my shift to do it. If you’re going to let someone go just fucking do it and don’t be a shit sipper and wait until the end of the day. It’s just extra demoralizing when they can you after an already shitty day.
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u/Lucky-Acanthisitta86 Jul 12 '25
Yeah that's def not the established way of doing it. MAybe they thought they'd give you an extra day of pay, but most people know that anyone would sacrifice that one day to go home if you're just going to get fired, haha. Yeah it's shit emotionally to wait. Just doesn't sit right, fells like they're using you
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u/Mo-Cance Jul 12 '25
When I've had to fire people, I'd do it right at the start of their shift, and they'd be paid for the day. I've even covered a cab ride home for someone who got dropped off for work. Sucks that I had to pull the trigger, and I've been on the other side too, so I figured the least I could do was approach the situation with a bit of empathy.
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u/Lucky-Acanthisitta86 Jul 12 '25
Yeah that sounds perfect. I'd say that the established way is at the beginning of shift, but I'll say, the corporate way doesn't call for the rest of the day getting paid. Though perhaps it should be that way
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u/Mo-Cance Jul 12 '25
It usually does, every company I've worked for pays the full day, which is law in Ontario.
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u/Lucky-Acanthisitta86 Jul 12 '25
Oh, I'm talking about the US. That seem really nice over here. Wish it were commonplace
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u/SoggyMcChicken Jul 12 '25
This is the way to do it. Beginning of their shift and pay them for the day.
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u/PrettylightedUMphrek Jul 12 '25
That’s exactly how it felt, I wasn’t mad about it by any means and in fact because of that. That launched my career into the restaurant industry because my next job was washing dishes and from there I worked my way up the ladder ended up going to culinary school. 33 years and running and I’m still in hospitality lol we are a sick and twisted bunch
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u/Federal_Article3847 Jul 12 '25
They didn't want to work her overnight shift lol so they fired her after it
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u/Existential_Sprinkle Jul 12 '25
Overnights are tricky because management can't be bothered to come in early or be there late
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u/EmotionalAir7871 Jul 12 '25
I worked in the f&b industry for decades. Firing someone at the end of their shift is common practice.
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u/KaerMorhen Jul 12 '25
I've only seen it once, which was when my bar manager at the time told me (when I first moved up to management) that we were going to fire one of the bartenders. He said not to say anything because he was going to do it at the end of the shift. It made me feel really shitty to he honest. She was having a great day, talking about an upcoming trip she had planned that she was saving for, and I've got to work the same bar with her for hours knowing what's coming. Even worse is she was a decent bartender who was great with guests. The only issue I had was that she didn't clean after herself as much as she could have. The bar manager just fired her because he didn't like her, probably because she wouldn't just fold over when he went on his regular tirades. Suffice to say she did not take it well, and I felt like an asshole.
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u/EmotionalAir7871 Jul 12 '25
I’ve been there. It’s awful. The owner of one of the restaurants I worked at simply didn’t like the line cook. The manager had to do the deed at the end of the night. I remember the manager keeping the office door open in case he had to run. SMH…. I became an executive chef and I’ve had to fire several people, but I swore I’d never do that to anyone. And I didn’t. I actually gave one guy a two week notice. I told him he needs to find another job and that he would be taken off the schedule after two weeks. He thanked me.
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u/Ocel0tte Jul 12 '25
In 3hrs I get to be the line cook that one manager just doesn't like.
She sent me home Tuesday while having a killer day, literally don't know what happened even after 3 days off to think. I was clean, stocked, ticket times were short. I'd just cleaned my cooler and chef base out and swept then gone to the restroom for about 5min, came back and got told it seemed like my head was elsewhere that day. 7hrs into my 9hr shift.
I should still be asleep but I'm just anxious. It's only 3 of us on weekends, foh, that girl, and me. So there's a solid chance they're just letting me do my last 10hrs and firing me Monday when the real managers are back. She could also send me home today.
It sucks, all it takes is one person. We just don't vibe for some reason, but I didn't realize it was that bad.
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u/AbolishedJackal13 Jul 12 '25
I have NEVER worked anywhere where they do it at the beginning of your shift. I've seen people get fired for sexual harassment and they STILL waited till the end of their shift to milk every last working hour out of that person they can.
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u/zigaliciousone Line Jul 12 '25
Probably something dumb like attendance but they needed her for that night so they could onboard her replacement or something, maybe even gave her a speech at the start of the shift that everything needs to be perfect or they would send her packing, with the intention of doing it anyway.
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u/Popular_Witness_5776 Jul 12 '25
Had a boss let me get back from half my paternity leave, finish up all of our client work, and then fire me the week before I went back on my second half of paternity leave.
If we would have been in the same office, I would have probably reacted the same. Lucky the douche canoe lived somewhere else.
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u/Lenora_O Jul 12 '25
I got fired for rolling my eyes after my new boss showed up late and complained that the breakfast bar wasn't stocked. If you had shown up on time this would not be a problem. I feel that 7am rage. Get it girl!
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u/Super_Honky Jul 12 '25
When I got laid off during COVID lockdown, my GM had me work almost a full day that included picking up a desk for him and moving 200 sand bags. The desk was one of those comically large U-shaped executive desks that he had gotten off Craigslist, and I had to disassemble it in a second floor office and carry all the pieces down a flight of stairs.
The sandbags were on a pallet on the ground and he wanted them on the rack in a space you couldn't get a forklift, so they had to be hand moved and stacked. He was cracking the whip the entire time because he knew the regional manager was on his way to cut me and he didn't want to have to do any of that labor himself...
I'd be lying if I said I didn't consider behaving the same way this woman did. I was next level angry.
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u/woodypulp Jul 12 '25
Most of the stuff in the this thread is too situational or vague for me to feel either way about, but I was looking for stuff like this. If a boss knows you're getting fired, and then has you transporting the Sahara by hand one bag at a time or makes you detail the baseboards with a little brush before your shift ends, or idk anything that's not normal and clearly extra then you know for sure it's a fucked up situation, and the kind of thing I would claim to have no clue about if questioned as a possible witness
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u/patrick119 Jul 12 '25
When I got laid off at my last job, there are a few things that really helped keep a good relationship with the company for me. The first and foremost is the severance pay, but another nice thing is they told me first thing in the morning on a Friday and then didn’t expect me to work the whole day. I had a chance to say goodbye to people and hand over my projects so my coworkers didn’t get screwed.
The rumor was already out so I was been preparing for it already, but having all day Friday and the weekend to process it and make a plan for job hunting helped a lot. And I didn’t do anything rash like this
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u/MossGobbo BOH Jul 12 '25
I'm not seeing the problem. They fire her after she pissed away her night for them and setup the breakfast service? Nobody gets anything.
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u/lilsnatchsniffz Jul 12 '25
Idc about the details firing someone that age is just dodging paying out their retirement the company are definitely pieces of shit
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u/StumbleOn Jul 12 '25
For all the mouth breathing cast traitors:
If there were some kind of problem with her, she should have been fired at the start of the shift.
If they waited to the end, then clearly she wasn't a problem and she is entirely justified tearing it all down.
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u/Sloppyjoemess Jul 12 '25
One time I came in at 9 PM and set up the rooftop bar. Five minutes before we opened, my boss was like “you’re not even supposed to be here.” They fired me by text message. Greedy pieces of shit. Meanwhile, their remaining staff is snorting cocaine and drinking on the job. Disgusting gay sex club in nyc, covered in piss and vomit. The only thing I will miss is the money, those guys never paid taxes. And the easy sex. But the work was trash and it jaded me to the larger gay culture that revolves around easy access to sex, drugs, and money.
Anyway I support you crashout lady, you are all of us
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u/handy_arson Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25
I was a very young manager at a large chain deli. Think salad bar and muffalettas. I moved to the middle of nowhere and got paid peanuts to open a store for them with promises of reimbursement on college classes, textbooks that kind of thing. I was worked like a dog 13 hours a day managing this place morning shift to close for 16k a year in about 1998. After we got the store up and running I signed up for some entry-level college courses and the boss man tells me that they're not going to reimburse me for expenses towards college but they would withhold that from my pay for me so I wouldn't go into debt and could pay it. That closing shift as I'm doing all of the work after learning all this amazing information. I am closing tills in the manager's office; I see a bank bag standing open that my GM left there. I open it up and see all of the paychecks for my peers. Granted I barely turned 18 at this point but I had been with the company for 2 years. Some of these other managers had only been there since the open. I find a check for a guy who's about 25 and has a college degree and is also maybe the absolute worst employee we had on the schedule. He was making $35k a year. I proceeded to let my employees go home, pushed all of the customers out of the restaurant. Took the cash bin I was checking and threw it across the middle of the dining room. I left everything out with a note that said go fuck yourself taped to the manager's office door. I locked up and went home.
Edit: typo from 4 yrs to 2 yrs... Voice to text is a bitch.
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u/Original-Variety-700 Jul 12 '25
It sucks for the employees that will have to clean it up now. I doubt it’s the person who fired her. It’ll be a coworker.
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u/thesleepjunkie Jul 12 '25
If the other employees have a spine, they'd refuse. I worked at a fast food joint where someone did this, the manager asked us to clean it up. "We said naw you made this mess."
The manager wasn't very liked.
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u/adamtherealone Jul 12 '25
Anytime I’ve been asked to clean the toilets, nope. I don’t get hazard pay, let alone any insurance at all, so I’m not touching it. Messes are not my problem
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u/Kind-Shallot3603 Jul 12 '25
Maybe if someone is having a clear mental breakdown don't stand behind them happily singing "Crash out" like the camer did.
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u/MannnOfHammm Jul 12 '25
I’ve worked at this hotel brand it’s not a kitchen so much as two or three microwaves
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u/Chemical_Emotion_934 Jul 12 '25
I’m going to start doing this at random hotels instead of going to therapy. They fired my ass! SLAM!!!
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u/Anxious_Cheetah5589 Jul 12 '25
a raccoon opened the unlocked back door to our home when we were away for a few days (yes, they can!) and did this type of damage. this lady's new nickname is Raccoon, lol
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u/SaltyNorth8062 BOH and definitely totally not intoxicated rn chef Jul 13 '25
I experienced something similar at the worst job I ever worked. Valid crashout.
I walked the entire way there (1 hour 1 way) after a grueling previous shift. Clocked in, started making product, was 20 fucking wraps deep, when those whores fired me over "stealing" because I misrang up an employee meal, called me a liar to my face, and canned me. I literally offered to pay for it (a second time). I had to walk all the way back home after 30 minutes on the clock. Couldn't bother doing that over the phone or nothing, when they fucking scheduled me over the phone, but they wanted to milk me making the wraps before they fired me because I was both the only one who would do them quickly, would be willing to come jn early to make them, would do them well, and would wash the utensils in-between different allergens.
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u/Selectively-Romantic Jul 12 '25
That sure didn't seem very professional. I don't know why she was fired.
Was the graveyard shift, or setting up the breakfast bar abnormal duties?
I'm highly biased towards the employee in these sorts of situations, but without more context, this just looks like a temper tantrum. Which suggests the behavior of someone I'd probably not want on my team if I were running things. Maybe that's the point of sharing the video?
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u/Grigori_the_Lemur Jul 12 '25
Is she justified in being extremely PO'ed - yes!
Still liable for damages. I hate it but there you go. She did what nearly anyone would want to do.
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u/golf-lip Jul 12 '25
Its common for it to be the responsibility of the audit shift (overnight desk) to set up breakfast, so it's not like OMG they asked her to do all this extra shit then fired her. A lot of mid size hotels do this. Especially if its just a breakfast bar like this. Set out milk, cereal, oatmeal, microwave eggs, bacon, an omelette or something, done.
At my hotel, breakfast was from like 6-10. So audit would start breakfast & coffee around 5:30 to have it out by 6, and breakfast attendant would show up at 6 to take over, keep things rolling and clean up.
Probably a good reason they fired her lol.
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u/Pernicious_Possum Jul 13 '25
Firing someone after their shift, or having them come in just to fire them, is bullshit. Unless of course it’s due to something that happened during the shift that causes the firing. Just fucking text. Don’t make me drag my ass in there just to go back home
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u/Indigoisms Jul 12 '25
I understand her frustration, but she's 100% in the wrong, this is a good way to end up unemployed because other companies will see this and just say she isn't worth the risk.
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