Owner Shorts Brewer's Hard-Earned Wages, Brewer Takes Revenge

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mattstaff
Mar 28, 2021 5:30 PM EDT

This brewery owner is a prime example of one of those people who never should've been able to run his own business in the first place. The guy clearly had some gnarly knowledge gaps when it came to knowing the kind of stuff a brewery owner should, to run a successful business. I mean, the guy threw an Anniversary event and failed to advertise that the brewery made their own beers. That's some next level cluelessness. On top of being an oblivious owner, he participated in wage theft. Fortunately, our heroic brewer of the hour was ready to take his technical revenge. Don't screw over the guy who knows how to brew your company's beer. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/PissedBrewer • 13h 1 I destroyed a brewery Nearly 20 years ago, I was a brewer at a brewpub. The owner was a complete lunatic and an utter A-hole. Before I was hired, he had already purchased the brewery equipment, used, from a closed microbrewery. Problem is, it was literally 4 times larger than it needed to be for the size of the place, and to top it off he was selling Big 3 beers too. And it was a Pugsley system (brewers will know). But I made it work, even got th
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    Text - at least two nights a week, to fill out my hours. That was fine, it was an easy gig. After our first year, he advertised a huge Anniversary event, with specials on food and drink. Food specials. Commercial beer specials. And didn't even mention that we made our own, much less put anything on special. Idiot. Not too long after, I got my first vacation in over a year. And he was mad at me for insisting. But life was stressful, not least of which because my Mom was in hospice, Stage 4 cancer
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    Text - We rushed home (6 hour drive), and on the way I called my boss and told him what had happened, and that I probably would not be in on Monday as planned (this was Saturday). I found out later from a bartender that he then bitched at the chef that I was probably going to want more time off. I did in fact take Monday off, but I went in on Tuesday to do my night manager shift. Now, my Mom's wishes were to be cremated, with no embalming, so by the time I got home, she was already cremated. So
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    Text - was to be a memorial service Thursday, and the interment for the family Friday. So I planned and made sure that the servers were full and I wouldn't need to brew for at least a week. That Wednesday the boss comes and tells me, he wants me to work night shift on Thursday and Friday (normally I did Tuesday and Wednesday nights) to make up for the time off l'd taken to help my Dad out (he wasn't handling it well). He wanted me to come in after my Mom's funeral. I flatly refused, at which poi
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    Text - Things started calming down, but after a few weeks I noticed my paychecks were for less than I anticipated. I hadn't been tracking my clock in/clock out very closely, because prior to this I only clocked in and out so I was logged in to do manager functions, but I happened to have a couple of slips in my wallet, and because I stil had manager access, discovered he had been altering my hours, eventually cheating me out of around 20 hours in just 6 weeks.
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    Text - And that's when I hatched my plan. I was done with this A-hole. Remember that Ringwood yeast? Well, in a brewery, you harvest yeast from a fermenting batch to use to brew a later one. And since we were slow, it often had to be stored for a while before it got used. But you had to use it within 30 days (21 is better) or it goes sour and starts dying. Normally I would take other steps to ensure it stayed clean and healthy, but not on the last batch I harvested. It just went into the cold ro
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    Text - After that, he tried to hire my former assistant, who was working at another brewpub by then because the A- hole had forced me to fire him to save money. He laughed at him. He then apparently got the under-age son of one of the brewers at a nearby brewpub which he had originally been part of to brew for him, but had to fire him because the kid kept getting caught drunk down in the cellar. So he tried doing it, and I had heard they stopped brewing entirely eventually. About a year after I
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