Employee Watches Ex-Boss Fail Trial Shift

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mattstaff
Mar 22, 2020 1:00 AM EDT

This employee had had enough of their manager's irritating antics. So, they up and quit the job and decided to work at a rival company. As it turns out, the very same ex-manager that drove them nuts, ended up coming to apply for a job at said rival company. From there, the fail ensued in glorious fashion. 

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  • 01
    Text - Is there anything more satisfying than seeing an ex-boss fail a trial shift? Long Some years ago I worked for a company that specialized in Sushi and basic japanese food, it was a good job but a difficult one made so by the fact all the chefs, managers, and most of the servers were pretty terrible at their job; but they had all known each other for years and kept making excuses to cover one another.
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  • 02
    Text - Since I was "the new guy" I had the hardest job of all, working the hot food section. Our restaurant worked like a regular sushi place, all the cold food and sushi went on a belt that traveled slowly round all the tables, any hot food orders (and there were a lot of those) were sent to the kitchen i.e me.
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  • 03
    Text - I worked that section alone. Even on days when we being slammed and I had so many orders the delay on food was up to an hour long was I always alone, I was also expected to prepare all the sauces, clean the fryers, cook rice and cover the KP when he went on break, I was always alone, even when we had eight other chefs in the kitchen not one could be convinced to help me out, one would spend the day slicing up the fish the rest would be prepping sushi or standing on their phones. Managemen
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  • 04
    Text - What management did care about was my performance. Reagrdless of how hard I worked it was never good enough and any customer complaints, regardless of context, were often excused as being my fault. The store manager, a read headed 'boss girl' type, would spend hours standing behind me, being over-critical of everything I did. I worked 16 hour shifts from 6am till 9pm, often 6 days in a row. At 9pm someone else would come in, take over from me, the restaurant closed an hour later and they
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  • 05
    Text - I had worked at a Fast Food place previously so I had been more willing just to put my head down and get on with the job in spite of the fact it was killing me. I finally did complain several times, no-one cared. Finally after 2 months I became unwell and was disagnosed with muscle strain and fatigue. My Dr informed the restaurant I would have to work less, so they fired me.
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  • 06
    Text - The red headed 'boss girl' manager dragged me into the office to explain that not only was I utter hopeless at the three person job I was doing by myself for 16 hours a day for minimum wage, but a customer had complained about finding a hair in her food which had been identifed as being from my beard. Every other chef, cept for one, had long hair and a beard, but it was 'identifed' from my beard specifically, it sounded like bullshit to me, but I didn't complain.
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  • 07
    Text - They expected me to finish my 16 hour shift that day, instead I walked out. A few days later I was hired by their rival company across the street, who paid me more, treated me with more respect and I've found a large number of other people who have also previously worked at that sushi place and had the same experience.
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  • 08
    Text - Fast forward two years. Now in better sushi place I am 'in charge' of the Ramen section, I've won several in-house awards for my cooking and am generally considered to be one of the best at what I do. Outside of a small incident involing a vegan menu event I really love this job and had generally forgotten about previous sushi place. Until the day we started hiring new managers,
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  • 09
    Text - We needed new floor managers, the company had made the classic error of promoting good servers to floor manager levels and it hasn't worked. We need someone with experience and a few have applied.
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  • 10
    Text - Today is trial shift day for three of the promising applicants, the first one did very well, even noticed the few traps laid out by managerment to try and catch slackers, the second was nervious but did ok, but when the time for the third applicant comes in walks Red Headed 'boss girl' from previous job. She greets everyone, scans along the kitchen line at all the other chefs, then her eyes meet me. In my different coloured hat showing that I am at a sous chef level, with the several awar
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  • 11
    Text - give her a smile and a wave, she dead-pans stares at me for a lot longer than necessary before marching off to greet the manager. Her trial ends in failure. Not only is she slow and unable to direct the staff; barking confusing orders and getting over-stressed at everything, she also cannot perform at a basic server level, cannot pour drinks and runs food like a clumsy 1st timer. It was a privalage and an honor to hear the other servers complain non-stop about her inability and general ag
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  • 12
    Text - Her trail ended early, she was politely thanked, and we never saw her again. Manager came over to me after he heard I had previously worked under her and asked for an opinion. I gave him my honest one, told him of my time working at *other* sushi place and the fact I still have back problems from it, he nodded, trashed her résumé , and that was that.
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