Epic Tales from CK's Work.
Okay, scenario. I generally just say I work in a bar/pub. This story needs slightly more info. Basically, we've got a full bar, smallish kitchen, between the bar and tables we comfortably seat... call it 40. Kitchen is open from 11 am to 9-10 pm. So really, we get by with 4 'full' time employees, 2 waitresses and 2 cooks, shift change at 4. There's apartment space upstairs, where for the past couple years the manager has lived. Basically he's fixit guy/checkbook and payroll/all purposes backup (he works contruction, so tends to be very available for long stretches of time), and was working for room and board more or less (and drinks, of course.)
Now, the owner also has a full time job, and a variety of moderate health issues, and for those reasons plus being very controlling/perfectionistic can't really run the bar. Then again, it runs itself pretty well. Also married, kids have their problems, etc etc etc.
Okay, so anyways, for some part of the past two years, she'd been dating the manager. At some point he'd concluded that, between everything, things weren't really working out and stopped seeing her, although never spelled it out. As such, he eventually started dating someone else.
Around two months ago, the owner catch up to this and summarily fires him. Screaming fit and all. The other cook is his sister, so she's fired too. Owner tries to cover those hours herself, takes time off her regular job. After about two days, it dawns on her this isn't fucking working, rehires the other cook, sometime later that day eventually asks the manager to come back.
Everything's okay for a few weeks.
One day she's up at the bar for some reason or other, manager's girlfriend comes over, raging fit he's fired etc. She decides to go on a rant to the head waitress about what lazy worthless sons of bitches we all are, place is filthy, all that. Gets her husband to take over the books. After about two days of this, he talks to the manager (who's still living upstairs, because you can't summarily evict someone without notice. The cops told her as much when she called them to throw him out), basically asks him to come back, keep the owner from coming up too much.
Things are okay for a while.
Last Saturday, manager and owner are working, doing a breakfast for opening day of deer season. Later on in the afternoon, his girlfriend stops by. Screaming fit, you told me you weren't seeing her, he's fired. Wednesday, she spends several hours talking to him, supposedly agrees to get over it and move on.
This afternoon, apparently he's fired again, we're supposed to stop his girlfriend from coming over, tell him our jobs are on the line if he sees her. In fact, one of the waitresses has "been given her two weeks notice" for not stopping her already. Except would she work by herself mondays and tuesdays?
Mind, I avoid the brunt of this, since I don't really answer the phone. I am, however, counting the days before I end up having to take over some of the housekeeping duties of the manager (in particular, cleaning/changing oil for the deep fryers) and thusly work 7 days a week.
