Share the signs your place of employment is going under
Share the signs your place of employment is going under
by Unicornio999
38 Comments
Icy-Opportunity69
Ooof that is rough
JustAnAverageGuy
“We’re switching to monthly payroll”
but my personal favorite:
IRS walks in: “We’re here under court order to seize all on-hand cash in the building.”
That last guy hadn’t paid taxes in like 5 years I guess. Including payroll taxes. Wtf.
rroyce81
They start cutting their hours of operation and raise the cost of the food.
Quercus408
Unless I get commission for every customer I bring through the door, thats not ever happening.
CoppertopTX
That’s when you slot “Dance Band on the Titanic” by Harry Chapin into the kitchen music rotation after you secure a new gig, on your way out.
Own_Loan1542
Half the wine list is crossed out.
SilkwormAbraxas
I went to a bar and they said “Something’s wrong with the taps so I can’t pour you anything but I have canned beers.” After we got our drinks I turned to my boyfriend and predicted “they can’t pay their regular beverage supplier, they’ll be closed soon.”
Smash cut, 1 month later: Bar Closed.
JTT_0550
Having to pay suppliers in cash.
CanadianDragonGuy
The fuck is that, Letterkenny Ontario?
jeffnorris
Time to update the resume
bigcig
LMAO this might be the bleakest one I’ve ever seen.
but also, the debit/credit machines go down… and just never come back on.
BodybuilderDue4035
When I started in the industry I worked in a bunch of mom and pop places where they paid cash, when shit started to go south you notice how the cash would have less 20 dollar bills and more singles or even change .
Mezcal_Madness
Ugh I had bosses do that. I told them no, I’m not using my personal life to promote their business, outside of friends knowing where I worked. It was never well received. Now, if they had offered to pay me for marketing, that would have been a different story.
raisin22
This reminds me of that one time where I was supposed to write a glowing review.
SainT2385
They start begging influencers to come eat for free for advertising
Ecstatic_Schedule_48
We had negative sales one day ( cost of employee meals exceeded the sales of the day)
j-endsville
Woof. I ain’t advertising shit. I don’t even wear my work shirts unless I’m on the clock.
mostly_sarcastic
“What’s our marketing budget for the year?”
“What’s the commission rate for completed sales?”
“Is my position becoming salary-based or will I receive overtime for hours worked outside business hours?”
Civilian216
> “You’re all going to be garnishing and traying your own orders from now on”
When Expo is too expensive, you’re not having a good time.
StevenAssantisFoot
They stop getting linen service, towel rationing, the owners taking shit home to launder themselves, they start using those green disposable-reusable schmattes.
WakingOwl1
When we went from being closed one day a week to being closed two -then three.
IamShopsy
-remits invoice for marketing costs
Active_Hippo
The kind high performers are leaving. They carry the place on their shoulders and support their coworkers. Even worse if they start complaining about favouritism before they leave Barely any information from management, so gossip spreads like wild fire.
bman23433
I worked at a place that had a similar request about Google reviews. After I left, they asked all FOH to push at their tables for 5 star google reviews and they would get a shift drink of the customer did.
rudebutts
Getting asked by a kitchen guy if I knew when the beer license was getting renewed
Trekgiant8018
The death knell of every restaurant is a frantic, multi post per day social media blast.
kimness1982
They have an active go fund me.
klgall1
We got an email from the investment company that our 401k match is ending at the end of the year. The owner quickly sent out an email saying they were “reevaluating benefits” to try to calm everyone down. Less than a week after that, he’s cutting hours and changed the clock-in policy. We used to have a +/-10 minutes to clock in/out. We can now only clock in exactly at scheduled time, and cannot clock out late at all.
He’s trying to get us to start opening procedures an hour later because “running the HVAC for one person for an hour isn’t cost effective.”
He’s pinching pennies on food costs, we now have maybe 7 different suppliers instead of 3 (Sysco, GFS, & a produce guy) and are getting very low quality product. I can’t believe I actually miss Sysco stuff…
He also earlier this year moved everybody to tipped minimum wage and is pooling tips between everyone.
olov244
reducing hours was the first sign I saw at our place.
then having vendors stand around and wait for payment before unloading delivery
owner would also go to the abc store and I’m pretty sure he was reloading the bar with cheap stuff
AppleSauceSwaddles
New GM was hired at one of the places I worked at and she laid off half the staff who have been working for years just to replace them with her own personal harem
somecow
We’re all basically holding customers at gunpoint to give us good reviews. And the fake robotic nice thing is on a whole new level. The customers don’t seem weirded out by it (mostly).
Thank absolute FUCK that I don’t work FOH. I’d quit.
ChefCharmaine
Aside from the obvious late/bounced paychecks:
📛 Vendor accounts on hold…every week.
📛 Owners canceling orders (by the case)…to go the store to buy product (by the piece).
📛 Salaried employees suddenly paying more in “taxes”, even though tax laws have not changed.
📛 Benefit plans are canceled.
📛 Owners go AWOL.
📛 The landlord suddenly reappears to do early morning walkthroughs…but not with the owners.
Particular-Zone7288
First they stop maintenance of the machines,
Then food quality starts dropping,
Then the labour budget gets “tightened”
Then stuff stops getting replaced, plates, cutlery etc
The moment they start shaving opening hours then it’s usually game over
rIceCream_King
•late on checks. •unpaid vendor invoices exceeding $20,000 •opened another location attempted to recoup •avoiding what used to be plenty of overtime pay
kipmin
Place im at now is a dying a slowwww death. Signs started showing a couple months ago when they cut hours of operations and fired the whole breakfast crew, and the pastry chef (me) and the banquet chef basically had take over the line and start making breakfast orders for the cafe on the property.
Then we started getting cut off from vendors and are constantly out of essential ingredients (couldn’t source dark chocolate from anywhere for about a month until they finally cut a check to one of our vendors).
The most recent bill they skipped on is the linen company, so we’ve been bringing aprons and towels from home for the past 3 weeks.
Honestly the only reason this place is still open is because this property is managed by a huge hotel chain and they have to have food options for their highest tier customers per their policy (entitled to free breaksfast, room service, among other things). The writing on the wall has been there for a whileeee but I get good benifits so I’m just gonna keep showing up till they start having payroll problems lol
pbrart2
I’ll be sure to spread the word to people I don’t give a shit about on a platform I haven’t used in 13 years
dreamshards8
Well, we just gutted all of our pastry department and began outsourcing over half of our desserts.
38 Comments
Ooof that is rough
“We’re switching to monthly payroll”
but my personal favorite:
IRS walks in: “We’re here under court order to seize all on-hand cash in the building.”
That last guy hadn’t paid taxes in like 5 years I guess. Including payroll taxes. Wtf.
They start cutting their hours of operation and raise the cost of the food.
Unless I get commission for every customer I bring through the door, thats not ever happening.
That’s when you slot “Dance Band on the Titanic” by Harry Chapin into the kitchen music rotation after you secure a new gig, on your way out.
Half the wine list is crossed out.
I went to a bar and they said “Something’s wrong with the taps so I can’t pour you anything but I have canned beers.” After we got our drinks I turned to my boyfriend and predicted “they can’t pay their regular beverage supplier, they’ll be closed soon.”
Smash cut, 1 month later: Bar Closed.
Having to pay suppliers in cash.
The fuck is that, Letterkenny Ontario?
Time to update the resume
LMAO this might be the bleakest one I’ve ever seen.
but also, the debit/credit machines go down… and just never come back on.
When I started in the industry I worked in a bunch of mom and pop places where they paid cash, when shit started to go south you notice how the cash would have less 20 dollar bills and more singles or even change .
Ugh I had bosses do that. I told them no, I’m not using my personal life to promote their business, outside of friends knowing where I worked. It was never well received. Now, if they had offered to pay me for marketing, that would have been a different story.
This reminds me of that one time where I was supposed to write a glowing review.
They start begging influencers to come eat for free for advertising
We had negative sales one day ( cost of employee meals exceeded the sales of the day)
Woof. I ain’t advertising shit. I don’t even wear my work shirts unless I’m on the clock.
“What’s our marketing budget for the year?”
“What’s the commission rate for completed sales?”
“Is my position becoming salary-based or will I receive overtime for hours worked outside business hours?”
> “You’re all going to be garnishing and traying your own orders from now on”
When Expo is too expensive, you’re not having a good time.
They stop getting linen service, towel rationing, the owners taking shit home to launder themselves, they start using those green disposable-reusable schmattes.
When we went from being closed one day a week to being closed two -then three.
-remits invoice for marketing costs
The kind high performers are leaving. They carry the place on their shoulders and support their coworkers. Even worse if they start complaining about favouritism before they leave
Barely any information from management, so gossip spreads like wild fire.
I worked at a place that had a similar request about Google reviews. After I left, they asked all FOH to push at their tables for 5 star google reviews and they would get a shift drink of the customer did.
Getting asked by a kitchen guy if I knew when the beer license was getting renewed
The death knell of every restaurant is a frantic, multi post per day social media blast.
They have an active go fund me.
We got an email from the investment company that our 401k match is ending at the end of the year. The owner quickly sent out an email saying they were “reevaluating benefits” to try to calm everyone down.
Less than a week after that, he’s cutting hours and changed the clock-in policy. We used to have a +/-10 minutes to clock in/out. We can now only clock in exactly at scheduled time, and cannot clock out late at all.
He’s trying to get us to start opening procedures an hour later because “running the HVAC for one person for an hour isn’t cost effective.”
He’s pinching pennies on food costs, we now have maybe 7 different suppliers instead of 3 (Sysco, GFS, & a produce guy) and are getting very low quality product. I can’t believe I actually miss Sysco stuff…
He also earlier this year moved everybody to tipped minimum wage and is pooling tips between everyone.
reducing hours was the first sign I saw at our place.
then having vendors stand around and wait for payment before unloading delivery
owner would also go to the abc store and I’m pretty sure he was reloading the bar with cheap stuff
New GM was hired at one of the places I worked at and she laid off half the staff who have been working for years just to replace them with her own personal harem
We’re all basically holding customers at gunpoint to give us good reviews. And the fake robotic nice thing is on a whole new level. The customers don’t seem weirded out by it (mostly).
Thank absolute FUCK that I don’t work FOH. I’d quit.
Aside from the obvious late/bounced paychecks:
📛 Vendor accounts on hold…every week.
📛 Owners canceling orders (by the case)…to go the store to buy product (by the piece).
📛 Salaried employees suddenly paying more in “taxes”, even though tax laws have not changed.
📛 Benefit plans are canceled.
📛 Owners go AWOL.
📛 The landlord suddenly reappears to do early morning walkthroughs…but not with the owners.
First they stop maintenance of the machines,
Then food quality starts dropping,
Then the labour budget gets “tightened”
Then stuff stops getting replaced, plates, cutlery etc
The moment they start shaving opening hours then it’s usually game over
•late on checks.
•unpaid vendor invoices exceeding $20,000
•opened another location attempted to recoup
•avoiding what used to be plenty of overtime pay
Place im at now is a dying a slowwww death. Signs started showing a couple months ago when they cut hours of operations and fired the whole breakfast crew, and the pastry chef (me) and the banquet chef basically had take over the line and start making breakfast orders for the cafe on the property.
Then we started getting cut off from vendors and are constantly out of essential ingredients (couldn’t source dark chocolate from anywhere for about a month until they finally cut a check to one of our vendors).
The most recent bill they skipped on is the linen company, so we’ve been bringing aprons and towels from home for the past 3 weeks.
Honestly the only reason this place is still open is because this property is managed by a huge hotel chain and they have to have food options for their highest tier customers per their policy (entitled to free breaksfast, room service, among other things). The writing on the wall has been there for a whileeee but I get good benifits so I’m just gonna keep showing up till they start having payroll problems lol
I’ll be sure to spread the word to people I don’t give a shit about on a platform I haven’t used in 13 years
Well, we just gutted all of our pastry department and began outsourcing over half of our desserts.
A great social media presence will not fix:
Tired menu items
Dingy decor
Unhappy employees
Slow service
Expensive items that do not deliver value
Lack of cleanliness
Frozen, not fresh offerings