So long Restaurant job

[zen_monk]

Dear Ex-Boss,

Thanks for keeping me employed for two years. Contrary to your belief, you weren't the one to hire me; it was ex-manager Darren who did way back in 2009. You know, the guy who quit on you this January because you welched on your side of the contract agreeing that you sell the sushi house to him at a certain date and when you were called out on it you told him to "go fuck himself?" Not to mention that Darren had already placed $500,000 on the restaurant, thus owning 49% of the building and should have been your business partner but instead you treated him as another employee being paid minimum.

This is actually very similar to how the head sushi chef quit back in April. Because on that day, Juan the sushi guy who worked in afternoon forgot to tell you that the restaurant needed avocados, you decided to throw a huge tantrum about responsibility on Sushi Honcho Waldemar who did nothing except told you that they ran out of avocados and if they can get some from the store across the street. So he decided to bail on you, too, because he became fed up with the way you treated the kitchen guys.

So it really is to my fortune that I'm leaving, because that means that not only will I leave your bad tantrums, I feel pretty justified in doing so. There was no bad blood between you and I. We were more or less civil towards each other. What I never liked was how you treated my co-workers, who are your underlings. I would always blame you for yelling at three waitstaff to the point on which they quit en masse because of one girl who was working that night with them choosing not to charge a table of familiar douches their dinner of $60. No one knew of that because she was the one who did that bit of the cashier ensuring that all they got charged was a California Roll. Three people shouldn't have suffered because of the folly of one immature girl.


The worst was when one busy night, when one girl who was technically under your caretaking spilled a little bit of beer before serving it to a table, and when you called that out on her, your words were, "You should have made smaller trips back and forth when clearing tables; make smaller loads. If you do that maybe you would lose a little weight."

No really, man! Ex-boss totally said that the waitress who, until that night, we all didn't know was a family friend. You totally told your employee that she should lose weight. The only reason I knew about it was because this waitress nearby overheard the WHOLE THING and told me (because I was the equivalence of a manager at the time but the name) in which I told best co-worker friend Sean, and who actually wrangled the story out of the poor girl out of her own volition. So no one but the waitstaff knew about it. It wasn't like we were telling the entire restaurant what was up. And yet, when Sean felt that he should do the righteous thing and tell you, Ex-Boss, that you shouldn't have said that and you should apologize to her, you completely flipped out and took it the wrong way. You spouted nonsense like "this isn't a civil rights movement; it's a private business" and that "there's no point in saving the world; we're all doomed anyway so what's the point in trying to help anyone" and "WHY ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK? You are all disrespectful to the customers by worrying about yourselves and that you should all never get involved with each other!"

So you yelled at Sean, who gave me a "WTF?" look as he walked past the register because you told him to clock out early. You yelled at the Poor Girl you insulted for telling everybody what happened, even though it was to one person. You screamed at the girl who overheard you, and you even fired her for 5 seconds until she screamed back that if you ever made a judgment over her appearance, her race, and her gender, she would sue your ass. Of which you promptly rehired her.

Oh, and you fired that girl you insulted.

I was pretty angry that night. I never knew I could be so angry at another person, but then again, I had never witnessed so much unnecessary drama in my life. I've never had two people come up to me in tears because of you, I've never heard so much shit out of one person the morning after that, because you were making so many illogical fallacies that I almost wanted to laugh in your face if you weren't upset that time. Because you blamed Sean that the girl was fired and that you lost whatever relationship you had with her and her family. I never knew that Sean had the power to terminate anyone, or to drive anyone else to terminate an employee. I also never knew that personal rights had no business in a private establishment.


Thanks for keeping me employed. No thanks to 6 months worth of drama which included throwing tantrums at people which would make themselves quit in front of your face. No thanks to witnessing you not control your stress in front of people so that you involuntarily insulted both employees and customers. And definitely no thanks to the fact that you are pretty much an old pervert who frequently comments on the appearance of your female employees, especially on their weight. Whether to their faces or to other people. Or leer at blonde beach bunnies who happen to pop in for some take-out sushi.

I quit.

KTHXBAI