Hotel outsources bartender’s job after keeping him on for 6 years with “better future” promises, offers a housekeeping job instead of compensation: ‘I’m effectively out of a job at that company

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• My job is being outsourced after 6 years of being told to stay with the company because it will get better.

  
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• In this fringe corporate theater, where they gather employees in meeting rooms for years and tell them “just hang on a little longer, the new version is almost here, your skills are going to be needed, the money will come back, trust the process.” The process turns out to be “trust us while we quietly hand your job to an outside company and then offer you a broom or a cart instead of a bar.”

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• For six years this bartender sat through the same script over and over. Construction chaos, slow business, paycheck headaches, all with a side of “look at these shiny new bars we are building for you.” The hotel would gesture at the future and say “aren’t you excited,” while steadily burning trust like cheap fuel. The payoff they described was never a raise, a promotion, or even a plan, just a vague promise wrapped in a lot of big words and hopeful lighting.

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• Then the new year hits, the curtain goes up, and the role is gone. The hotel does not say “we messed up, here is some severance,” it says “either quit, or go clean rooms and pretend this was always the plan.” The idea that the person could quit and apply with the new company wears the whole thing thinner, stripping benefits and years of loyalty in the name of “opportunity.” It is like being told you can keep your seat at the table as long as you are willing to eat the plates instead of the food.

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• None of this is about wanting a lawsuit. It is about wanting someone to admit they sold a promise and then handed you a fake receipt. When you spend half a decade sticking with a job because leaders told you to be patient there is a reasonable expectation that the company owes you something more than a polite shrug and a sideways exit. The only real question left is whether they believe in good faith or just in good branding.

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