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.
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.
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/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.