'New hire lasted 10 minutes': Server tells off manager on day one after not being allowed to bring her dog to work

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 2, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Every worker has to set boundaries somewhere, and for this server, her boundaries are all about the dog. 

On her very first day at a restaurant, the new server set 3-4 large bags down in a corner of the kitchen where employees leave their things hidden from customers' view. She had just clocked in and was beginning her orientation when a coworker discovered her dog in one of those bags. She had mentioned nothing about needing her to dog to be with her at all times during the interview process, and it turns out she did not have authorization to have a service animal with her either. It was all a personal preference and not one she thought to mention to her boss beforehand. Her manager, of course, confronted her about this, specifically that it would be unsafe to have a dog in the kitchen. Let's just say the server did not handle this confrontation well. Good luck to her!

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    Some time last year my restaurant hired a new server. She came in on her first day with 3 or 4 big bags, like backpacks
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    and tote bags. We have a little area facing the kitchen and away from the customers where we put our stuff so she put all her bags in that area
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    on the floor and started getting logged in for training videos in different part of the restaurant. Another server was using the P in the bag area when she
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    looks down and sees in this new girls bag, a dog. A living, breathing dog just chilling on the floor in this tote. She didn't say anything about needing a service animal, didn't say.
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    a word about the dog being there at all. My manager told her she's going to need to take dog literally anywhere else, he
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    can't be here. New girl gets in my managers face and says "GIRL F YOU", grabs her bags and
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    dog and walks out the door. She was clocked in for 10 minutes. Didn't even have time to learn her name.
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    x_mas_... 1d ago I lasted maybe 15 min at a job once. Applied at a hotel for front desk work in high achool, got
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    hired, show up for my first day and they have me dishwashing in the restaurant that was part of the place,
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    even tho I was told I was hired for fromt desk. I figured, f it, I'll give it a try. Left shortly after.
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    crash866 1d ago • Not at all restaurant but at one place I was at we had a new hire and 5 minutes
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    after hashed cam in and sat down in front of a computer the Coffee truck showed up. She asked if it was ok if she went to get a coffee. She was told
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    ok and she picked up her purse and got a coffee and just kept walking down the street without saying a word. She
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    called a week later and wanted to know if she got paid for the 5 minutes.
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    XPN1971 1d ago . We had an old woman leave at first smoke break at new hire orientation. She sh herself from what we heard from the other new hires. Never saw her again
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    • sooner... 1d ago. This was more than ten minutes, more like two hours but...
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    a ten-man crew show up. The owner (who had no problem getting in and working the floor with us) told us
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    if we knew anyone in need of a job, he'd hire them on the spot, felonies or whatever. I had a friend who had been
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    looking for work and called him up. He came in and I was asked to train him. About two hours in,
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    he said he needed to go to the restroom and never returned. I never saw the dude again, period. I was high-school friends with his wife and asked her about him.
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    She said he came home crying about how hard it was. The dude left her and their toddler son about six months later.
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