I don’t agree entirely with what happened here, but I do understand why she did it. This story was told to me by a co-worker about one of her friends.
Co-worker’s friend works in a rival pub down the street from ours. She is one of the managers. She was stunned to come into work on Friday night and be told that she and one other person were the only ones working. The two of them had a hellish night. They were constantly busy and were shouted at and abused by many customers who got impatient waiting to be served.
When they eventually closed at 11pm, they had a massive cleandown to do. The pub looked like a bomb had hit it. They were there until 5am cleaning and sorting everything out, until she finally lost patience through exhaustion and decided that it was time for them to go home to bed.
The next day, she gets up for work. When she arrives, the owner is there, and he is angry. He is upset that she missed off some jobs the night before, he berates her in front of the staff, and announces he is suspending her pending investigation. She is absolutely stunned and leaves the place in tears.
She worked that hellish shift, she had about two hours sleep, and she suddenly decided that she would rather be dead than go back in there. She decides enough is enough and that it is time to quit.
Did I mention that she held the pubs alcohol licence?
Yep. The current owner couldn’t get his own liquor licence because he has a criminal record, so she decided she was going to go out with a bang. She contacted the appropriate people, and informed them that she no longer worked at the pub, and would like to revoke her licence. They then contacted the pub and informed them that unless they had someone else working for them that held a liquor licence that they were to cease trading alcohol immediately.
They didn’t have anyone else, and they were forced to close. And they are still closed. They lost a full Saturday/Sunday trade because of it, and apparently the owner is calling around, begging for someone with an alcohol licence to come work for him. No luck at the minute.
Like I said, I don’t entirely agree with what she did, purely because there will be innocent workers who will lose hours over this. However, I think this guy is going to learn a very valuable lesson on how to treat people.
Co-worker’s friend works in a rival pub down the street from ours. She is one of the managers. She was stunned to come into work on Friday night and be told that she and one other person were the only ones working. The two of them had a hellish night. They were constantly busy and were shouted at and abused by many customers who got impatient waiting to be served.
When they eventually closed at 11pm, they had a massive cleandown to do. The pub looked like a bomb had hit it. They were there until 5am cleaning and sorting everything out, until she finally lost patience through exhaustion and decided that it was time for them to go home to bed.
The next day, she gets up for work. When she arrives, the owner is there, and he is angry. He is upset that she missed off some jobs the night before, he berates her in front of the staff, and announces he is suspending her pending investigation. She is absolutely stunned and leaves the place in tears.
She worked that hellish shift, she had about two hours sleep, and she suddenly decided that she would rather be dead than go back in there. She decides enough is enough and that it is time to quit.
Did I mention that she held the pubs alcohol licence?
Yep. The current owner couldn’t get his own liquor licence because he has a criminal record, so she decided she was going to go out with a bang. She contacted the appropriate people, and informed them that she no longer worked at the pub, and would like to revoke her licence. They then contacted the pub and informed them that unless they had someone else working for them that held a liquor licence that they were to cease trading alcohol immediately.
They didn’t have anyone else, and they were forced to close. And they are still closed. They lost a full Saturday/Sunday trade because of it, and apparently the owner is calling around, begging for someone with an alcohol licence to come work for him. No luck at the minute.
Like I said, I don’t entirely agree with what she did, purely because there will be innocent workers who will lose hours over this. However, I think this guy is going to learn a very valuable lesson on how to treat people.
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