Barista Uses Mice To Get Wicked Step-Manager Fired

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mattstaff
Sep 27, 2019 2:00 PM EDT

A solid way to root out the rodent problem that clearly had infested the management team. This barista filmed mice in the cafe she used to work at, and managed to get the store shut down by the Department of Health. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge u/CoffeeShopAuthor 1d JOIN 3 1 Mice Helped Me Fire My Wicked Step- Manager Long Post Warning - I added all the background because it makes the payoff so much better. The universe aligned the starts for me with this story my old coworkers and I still talk about it.
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    Text - Backstory: I was working at a popular coffee shop chain in a high-volume, swanky location as a barista. We were specially trained to make fancier, novelty drinks compared to other locations. I loved my team and my manager and for the most part, everyone got along. Then, my manager informed us she was moving to another location and we would be getting a new store manager. This new manager, who we will call Jack, was an old assistant manager from this location. He trained here before becomi
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    Text - Everyone in the store dreaded his return. From what I gathered, Jack was an asshole when he was an assistant manager. Within the first few weeks, things went downhill. He started writing up certain baristas constantly, for infractions that others got away with. He slashed everyone's hours from full time to part time, claiming that our "job description never stated we were entitled to full time". One barista went from 39.75 hours week to 16.50. Jack claimed our company had no write-up expi
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    Text - clean record to final warning within one meeting with him. Those who had worked with him before organized themselves into a list of who would get fired next. We didn't suspect there was a personal vendetta against certain baristas who knew him when he was an assistant manager - we knew there was. One by one, several people were fired, all in the order they knew they would be fired. Others found jobs elsewhere. It became a race against the clock; either quit or wait to be fired for somethi
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    Text - proving to be beneficial to the district manager and he was not interested in helping us. I was badly burned by our drip brewer and he refused to help me fill out the workers comp report, as he was too busy placing the weekly order. I had extremely bad cramps in my thigh and went to urgent care. I was one of the last walk-ins at the clinic and left after they closed. When I sent him a picture of the doctor's note, he googled the location from the letterhead and claimed I faked the note si
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    Text - This friend, Anthony, got me a job at my current workplace. After Anthony got fired, he struggled to make ends meet with just the one job. I helped him out by preparing large batches of food and dropping them off at his workplace. I met his manager and got an interview the following week. I had been working at this place for probably two months when the most magical thing happened to me
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    Text - The Incident: I finished a closing shift at my current job and was passing by my old store (closed for the day) when I saw two mice running around the lobby. I filmed it. Guess cutting orners in cleaning and health standards was causing a bit of a rodent issue. In a rush of pent- up anger watching my team get fired over nothing, watching Anthony struggle to eat, suffering at the hands of Jack myself - I posted the video to Instagram and tagged the store in it. I posted photos and links to
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    Text - A couple weeks go by and my current job has turn in management itself. We weren't getting our legally mandated half hour breaks and I am put on 9-hour shifts with no meals. Thankfully, HR was much more sincere than the coffee shop HR so I arranged a meeting. I stopped by my old coffee shop before my meeting to say hello to the few friends who still worked there. I noticed Jack and the district manager were there. I grabbed a water and sat down to organize my HR meeting notes. Not even a h
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    Text - I gleefully return to my current workplace and tell| Anthony how I was ACTUALLY THERE to justice happen; justice that I started with my own hands. He tells my coworkers; even my managers find out I shut down a whole store from report. HR catches wind of this story before our meeting and I've never been in a more polite, apologetic HR meeting... My managers were reprimanded and we had all breaks restored to us. All the departed/fired baristas took pictures in front of the Department of Hea
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    Text - About two weeks after the store shut down, I get a call from the coffee shop's HR department. Apparently, whenever they have something like this happen, they look through the records of the store. Between the mass-exit of seasoned baristas and the complaints made to the district manager and HR, they had a novel about my old cafe. The HR rep asked me why I left and the first words out of my mouth are: "I left because of Jack the manager; and the district manager is complicit in his actions
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    Text - Jack was fired and was banned from working with the company. He packed up and moved acros the country. The fancy location was taken from the district manager and now he only oversees basic cafes. I got promoted at my current job to assistant director of the site, to oversee HR compliant overhaul to improve the workplace, based on my knowledge of OSHA and state labor laws. Anthony and the other fired baristas were offered their jobs back, which Anthony accepted. He is in a better financial
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    Text - TIdr After quitting a barista job because of really bad management, I filmed mice in the cafe and got the store shut down by the Department of Health, which resulted in an investigation that got the store manager fired.
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