'The next morning I had many missed calls': Overburdened restaurant closer refuses to work late, surprises bosses with messy restaurant and their two week notice

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 6, 2023 11:00 AM EST

This restaurant closer was ready to "prove a point." Overwork your employees, and they'll find ways to get back at management for putting such a heavy burden on them!  

Once you've worked in both hourly roles and salaried roles, you realize how insane the workload is on hourly folks. They're often held to standards that just cannot be met in the time frame allotted to them, unlike salaried workers who are expected to work off the clock if necessary. For example, this person shared that while they were working an hourly gig at a golf course's restaurant, they were expected to work, train two people at once, and also close, all at once. Meanwhile, I'm sure their bosses were just lazing around, with no clue how difficult of a task they'd assigned to u/yungcremepuff, the OP. 

This person at least did the right thing by not letting their bosses overwork them. Their bosses said to be done at a certain time, and the OP was able to let the restaurant remain, well, rather un-closed. There's always a rivalry between closers and those who open the next day after them, and these openers must've lost their minds after seeing what the OP did. 

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  • 01
    "...and this is my 2 week notice" LOC This story occurred about a year ago, but requires some background. This might be a little long.
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  • 02
    I worked at a local golf course for about 7 years, from when I was 13 to 20. When I had first started there, my mother was the manager of all things food and beverage until that summer, because she took on a different job. Working there for so long put me in line to be the new manager, however, I was not willing to take the position because I was enrolled in college and wouldn't have the time for it, and considering my mother worked 100 hour+ weeks sometimes in our busy season I wasn't willing.
    via u/yungcremepuff
  • 03
    The golf course also has a general manager who we will call Chad. Chad . He was creepy towards all the girls that worked there, and had a terrible temper. One similar to a toddler. We never saw eye to eye on anything, especially his management style, and was always getting on my case even though I was the only person on the Food and beverage side of things that knew what was up and how to do anything, including Addy.
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  • 04
    So this brings us to the story, I was working in our little restaurant serving our golf leagues that come in. One league in particular liked to stay really late, like 12am-1am, but I never really minded as I got along well with them and I became good friends with a lot of the members. And they were always buying beer/shots so there was never much of an issue with it. When Addy started there, Chad decided to change up our dining room policies to close the restaurant at 10:30pm. This personally
    via u/yungcremepuff
  • 05
    really aggravated me, they were paying customers and I was happy to serve them and I was the only one that was usually serving them. But Chad kept going on about labor costs, which if anyone reading this knows anything about serving, I wasn't making much hourly and was relying on tips to make money. So they put this into place and I tell Chad it's his responsibility to tell the league they have to leave at 10:30 and not me. He didn't. And guess what? The league members were First mistake.
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  • 06
    Addy would not often (or honestly never) stay to help with the leagues but was adamant about the new hours. As she is about to head out for the day she tells me that I will be training two girls in the restaurant that night. We have about 80 extremely needy golfers in the restaurant at once on this night in particular, I barely had time to train one, but she did not stay to help out with that. Looking back on it, it was definitely not my responsibility to train anyone, either. But I was willing
    via u/yungcremepuff
  • 07
    Second mistake. Then mentions to me that if I am not clocked out by 10:50pm then I will not be paid for any work after the fact. Third mistake. I ended up training one of the girls on our POS computer and told her she was done for the day and that she can clock out. And continued to train the other girl for the rest of the evening. So when the leagues left at 10:30, there was food on the floor, bathrooms weren't cleaned, trash was not taken out, the tables were moved from their normal resting pl
    via u/yungcremepuff
  • 08
    the girl I was training to move the tables and I counted the drawer. Well, it's 10:50 now and I'm not working for free. So we clocked out and left. Could I have done more? Absolutely, but I needed to prove a point. The next morning I had many missed calls from Chad and Addy. I didn't have to come in for 2 days so I just let them keep calling. So on the next shift day I had I finally called Chad back, he told me to come in for a meeting with him and Addy. When I get there, he gives me a story abo
    via u/yungcremepuff
  • 09
    training two people on our busiest night of the week, alone. But I also had to be out at 10:50 or I was told I wasn't being paid. After going back and forth about how Addy was just kidding, and I shouldn't take things so seriously. I had finally had enough of Chad and his antics. I told them I was putting in my two weeks, and the looks on their faces were as if I had s someone right in front of them. It was awesome. I continued to work for the next two weeks, doing everything I was supposed to a
    via u/yungcremepuff
  • 10
    because nothing was going right. I was asked again by Chad to take Addy's position on, and Addy was calling me telling me how impossible Chad is to work with. It was truly beautiful to watch all the chaos unfold even after I left. Addy ended up quitting a month after because her and Chad couldn't get along. I don't miss much about that job or place but I do miss my regulars every day. If any of ya'll are reading this I hope you're doing well :)
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  • 11
    Zoreb1 Didn't the golfers complain to the manager of the entire golf course about the change in serving time?
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    yungcremepuff OP Definitely, but Chad didn't care. I know a lot of them stopped coming in after a while, too. In addition, he was gone by the time they would start coming in to eat. I was usually there alone with one other server and the kitchen staff.
    via u/yungcremepuff
  • 13
    hymie0 Addy was just kidding, and I shouldn't take things so seriously. Directives from my manager are not to be taken seriously. Understood. Would you put that in writing please?
    via u/hymie0
  • 14
    CJsopinion After you quit it would have been hilarious to charge them consultant rates every time they called you.
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  • 15
    Mantonization and the looks on their faces were as if I had shot someone right in front of them The realisation that they've ruined their ability to exploit your labour. Beautiful
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    + [deleted] It's always the people who treat you like that are surprised you have the guts to stop putting up with it.
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  • 17
    This SideGoes Up I was fired from a gold club because I didn't take ketchup to a table. The ketchup was in the dining area, they knew where it was, and the dad told the kid if they wanted it they can go get it. Someone else at the table complained and I was fired that night. First and only comaint I ever had against me.
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  • 18
    AstrOspacecat You dealt with this perfectly. A+++
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