‘Laughing through his anger’: Restaurant host gets written up for ‘abandoning’ post to aid with a car crash, convinces manager to fire him, celebrates

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 4, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Sometimes it is difficult to still find humanity in the world. You think that it would be easy, since we are all humans. But, unfortunately, it's not… But that doesn't mean there aren't people out there that still have their humanity and would fight for it. Take this guy who came to the aid of car crash victims. 

 

He was working two service industry jobs. One, was a host job at a place he had only just started working at. While he was hosting, a car crash happened outside of the restaurant. The man instinctually went running outside to help and make sure that everyone was okay. After he was sure everything was under control, he went back inside of the restaurant. 

 

There was his manager seething because he "abandoned" his post. He was so mad he wrote him up and told him if he had one more write up, he would be let go. This was very upsetting to the employee because he was just being a decent human being, and, what? Now he's getting fired for it! No way. So him and his dad devised a plan that would waste the manager's time while getting this employee fired. Because he was done with that job and was going to quit anyway, but now he had an opportunity to inconvenience a bad person. 

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  • "I was written up for 'abandoning pos'"

    To clarify my title, I am not in the military. This takes place when I was 20, working summer jobs while living with my parents to pay for college.
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  • I was already working full time as a waiter at a very fun restaurant that I really enjoyed, but I wanted to make a little extra money, so I got a job as a host at another restaurant, lets call it "Sapphire Wednesdays." I knew immediately that the place was mismanaged (mostly cued in by the manager having a beer at 2pm on a Tuesday during my interview,) but my responsibilities as a host were very easy: seat customers, inform servers, sweep the floor near the front.
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  • I had already been working in restaurants since I was 16, so my training was over in about an hour.
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  • About a week after I was hired, sometime after lunch but before dinner rush, there was a car accident in front of the store.
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  • A car was sideswiped by a semi and run into a telephone pole on a busy suburban road.
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  • I told a server to call 911 and sprinted out and across the parking lot to check on the car.
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  • Thankfully, the woman in the car was shaken but fine, the truck driver was out of his truck and on the phone with 911, and other drivers had stopped as well, a very nice moment of humanity from folks on their way home from work.
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  • I decided that everything was being handled as best as possible, so I went back into the restaurant.
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  • I walk back in to find the manager standing at the empty host stand in front of a nearly empty dining room asking "where did you go?" "There was an accident, I went out to make sure everyone was ok" Manager asks "why did you feel the need to do that?" Idk because I'm a human???
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  • After a brief back and forth, the manager says he HAS to write me up for "abandoning post." I was too confused and angry to argue, so I told him that was fine.
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  • He then reminded me that "one more write up within my first month means I'd be fired." I went home and explained all this to my dad, who was laughing through his anger, and suggested I quit and just focus on the other job.
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  • I decided he was right, but hatched a plan: rather than quit, I showed up an hour late to my next shift that the same manager worked.
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  • This happened to be friday night during dinner, and i was the only host scheduled. The manger was furious that he had to get out of the office and do actual work, so when I walked in he saw me and immediately began berating me.
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  • I asked if I was going to get written up for this, to which he replied (in front of a crowd of customers, I might add) "You bet your a you're getting written up!!" "OH NO, I guess I'm fired then!
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  • See ya!" I went home and drank whiskey and smoked a cigar with my dad on the back porch to celebrate.
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