How not to keep your job

[Moirae]

• Be late every day
• Have constant complaints by guests that you are rude (including one African chieftain).
• Make constant mistakes. This one is so bad that your manager spends hours every day correcting them and includes leaving the kitchen a mess (at one point, make sure you put the glass milk container in the fridge so that it falls when the door is opened, gets spilled all over everything and makes for a half hour cleanup off the floor and fridge, then complain how unfair it is to point it out when you come in for your shift). All this in spite of repeated retraining both physically and with supplied reference paperwork.
• Threaten your co-worker with beating her up when the till goes $20 short on shift change over.
• Leave the building for sometimes up to an hour to get lunch, even coming back by cab (according to guests) in spite of the fact that there are plenty of places to get food from within a four block radius.
• Do as absolutely little as possible, thinking that no one will notice and your manager is just being nitpicky (even though this means a great deal of extra work on your manager). In spite of the fact that ALL your other co-workers do what they were hired to do. Then act all affronted when you are confronted about it.
• Accuse your manager of having it out for you when you do all these things and the manager continues to point it out. Worse, tell this about your manager to the same co-worker that you threatened to beat up a month ago.

Wonder how it's going to go on Monday when this employee is officially dismissed when showing up for what the employee called "work". We hired someone else to take that position. Someone with ten years of experience behind them and that I happen to know from another place I used to work.

[Peppergirl]

Yeah, let us know how THAT goes down.

[eltf177]

I hope management has a spine and the firing is permanent!

[taxguykarl]

Keep us posted. This is going to be good.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Keep us posted. This is going to be good.

I think you mean...

[Moirae]

It went as we didn't expect. She came in and my husband told her to sit down and locked the office door.

Then he said "We're letting you go".
She said "Ok, but why?"
He cited work performance issues and her she said said she "didn't think there were any work performance issues". Ummm, yeah there were, as in the pieces of paper she was receiving every single day she worked, the fact that she was written up for the same reasons, and the fact that even the owner noticed and he's been on site only a few times when she's there.
Then she said "Well if there were work issues at least you didn't get complaints about me".
He said "Actually there were. We've received complaints about your attitude, and about you being gone for up to an hour for lunch from guests".
She kept trying to push the issue and his response was "It's done. We're letting you go. We need your keys and your uniform shirt. Your check is direct deposit. If you like we can mail the stub to you".
And she just gave us her keys, her uniform shirt and agreed to have the stub mailed.

Huh... I was expecting a big explosion given her 'tude and it didn't happen. Weird.

As for me? I was just there as a witness and didn't say a word. I didn't even look at her because I think if I did, she'd have tried to start a battle royal with me since she apparently blames me for everything according to the other employees.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Careful, don't let your guard down.

She's just waiting for the chance to RAGENUKE you...

j/k Glad it went well, apart from her constant attempts to find an opening to deny the firing.

[taxguykarl]

'Huh... I was expecting a big explosion given her 'tude and it didn't happen. Weird.

Getting a bit covert aggressive here. I'm glad to see that this termination was documented as she'll be filing for unemployment and very likely a discrimination lawsuit.

[cindybubbles]

Huh... I was expecting a big explosion given her 'tude and it didn't happen. Weird.

Her mind probably exploded. What you got instead was a zombie. You should wait until the information sinks in for the fireworks to happen.

[Moirae]

Worried about the discrimination thing. I honestly don't care what color a persons skin is but I'm willing to bet that she does. Hope it doesn't come to that. We canned her because she was lazy and useless, nothing more. She thought that because she knew my husband from a previous job that she was protected. The thing is, it isn't even my husband and I that fired her, it's the owner, we just got to deliver the message.

[Tama]

You have a long paper trail, right?

[Moirae]

You have a long paper trail, right?

Oh yes. Many months of it. Though I stopped bothering the last couple weeks since I knew what was coming.

Funny thing is she said she didn't know anything about any mistakes. I'm still boggled by that. When you're receiving notes every single day and then they suddenly stop, wouldn't it make you wonder? As my husband says... if a manager suddenly stops complaining after complaining for months on end, you just lost your job.