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 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/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.