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“I’ve spent nearly two decades working in the restaurant business, which is rife with inappropriate behavior, but one particular job takes the cake. First of all, everyone who worked at this restaurant was a mess, and most of us were drunk and/or high during every shift, which the owner knew but turned a blind eye. People would bring edibles to share with everyone (during work), we’d go get drunk on our breaks, and we’d meet up behind the dumpster during shifts to smoke dabs. But things got really bad when we hired ‘Joe,’ the new GM.”
“Joe was a very charming narcissist who seemed to take great pleasure in sowing seeds of chaos everywhere he went. Within six months of starting there, he had seduced two servers — gross enough on its own, but he was married, to boot. Girl A was struggling with addiction and mental health issues, and Girl B was married, pregnant, and suspected of stealing weed and prescription drugs from our coworkers’ bags and money from the register.
Anyway, when Girl A found out about Girl B, she got revenge by getting Girl B’s husband’s phone number from her emergency contact info in her file and sent him a text from a fake number to tell him about the affair. Girl B’s husband immediately made her quit the job, and she had to move back in with her family in another state for awhile.
Joe then went around the restaurant trying to bribe his employees to drive 24+ hours roundtrip to go ‘rescue’ Girl B. When this didn’t work, he spent the next few weeks tormenting the entire staff, flying off the handle for no reason, threatening everyone’s jobs, and just generally being an unholy terror.
None of this got him fired, though. What got him fired was a customer who apparently rubbed him the wrong way and left her iPhone on the table. When she came back to get it, it was nowhere to be found. She was able to use the Find My Phone feature on her tablet, and what do you know, her phone was in the dumpster. Another manager checked the camera footage, and sure enough, Joe was the culprit. He was fired on the spot. I will never again stay in a job that toxic, although it did make for some great stories.
Oh! Almost forgot. Another manager, who we’ll call Paul, was secretly dating the 17-year-old hostess. He was 31.”
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