Tuesday, February 07, 2006

check please

So, since I'm sitting here enjoying my coffee and the fact that I don't have to work today I thought I should finally blog something.

I recently went back to work for a previous employer in the restaurant business. I worked for this company starting back in june and stuck it out for a whole whopping 3 months as shit-head and fuck-rod tried to decide what kind of restaurant we should be. Now, the fact that this place had absolutely no direction what-so-ever, wasn't the problem. The real issue was the fact that half the place (including management) was strung out on coke half the time or rollin their asses off. I guess, to each their own, but when my money depends on your fucked up ass....I get annoyed.

Then there was the case of my manager. He was a line cook, not even a chef, who got a break by a friend and was given a managament position. He's already been sued once for sexual harassment and now he works with twelve 19-23 year old women. Hmmm.......
Well, sure enough he starts flirting and grab assing through his entire shift. He serves a 19 year old server at the bar, does the biggest line of coke i've ever witnessed in my life (while on shift), and tells us his wife doesn't put out so he has to get it elsewhere. After the 2 months of him cornering people and causing drama, I'd had enough.

I go into the office and I'm all "you need to knock it off, we're pressing charges, you should just leave before you get fired you worthless waste of space." I'm feeling great because I just spent 5 minutes telling him off and told him that we planned to press charges. He changed my attitude when he tells me that the owner himself is backing him and paying for any lawyer fees and letting him use his lawyer.

Tom owns 8 restaurants and has money coming out of his ears, so i was naturally worried. He calls a meeting with the 3 girls that had threatened to sue him, and offers us any hours, any days, any sections, any shift. We agreed, even though we knew better, and agreed that him and the 3 of us didn't converse unless absolutely necessary.

This lasted 3 days. The three of us were supposed to be at a meeting about us, and we blew it off. We went in for our shift and were called into the office and were informed that we had been fired. HAH! We laughed in his face and all 3 spent about 10 minutes telling him what we thought of his perverted ass. And walked out yelling obsenities.

3 months later, I talked to a girl that had stuck it out and still worked there. She informed me that not only were the two managers gone, but the entire staff except for 3 servers and 2 kitchen had been fired. I laughed and joked that I should go back and start working for them again. In the morning, I actually went in and put in an application. The owner looked at it and said "you start monday."

I went to work last week and two days this week. I've managed to bring home good money in tips and the place runs great. The food is phenomenal, and it runs smoothly and like a real restaurant.