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'As of today everyone is being terminated:' New Orleans bar tries to 'clean house,' employees get a hold of the IG account and wreak havoc, causing mass boycott

“I hope the [Bank Street Bar] realizes this is all because of Tristan’s well-documented poor management skills and fires him and gives the banks staff all their jobs back.”
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Update: Boss Reads Employees Private Fan-Faction Erotica Out Loud to Entire Team as "Prank", Wonders if He's Wrong

This fast food manager read his subordinate's erotic fan-fiction to the team as a prank and has taken to Reddit's r/AITA community to see if he was wrong.
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Update: Kitchen Drama, Conflict and Owner Abuse Leads to Resignation of FOH Lead and Chef

This chef shared the conflict in their restaurant that led to the resignation of the FOH lead and then the chef themselves. They shared their own resignation in a second “update” thread where they discussed that the conflict between them and the FOH lead, who had quit in the previous post, had put them in the owner's crosshairs.
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Server Goes Viral for Story of Getting Stiffed a Tip from a Party of 60 People, Commenters Defending the Non-Tippers are Getting Put in Their Place

If you can't afford to tip, then you shouldn't be going out to eat. PERIOD.
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Karen Roasted By Business Owner After She Brings Disruptive Newborn to Nail Salon and Leaves Bad Review

This mother took her newborn to a nail salon appointment and was roasted by the owner for leaving a bad review of her experience.
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Malicious Compliance: Restaurant Worker Told to Reconsider Having Two Jobs, Quits

This worker was working a second job as a greeter at a popular restaurant before the manager told them that they needed to reconsider having two jobs. When they paused to reconsider this as requested, they decided that the job at the restaurant was the one worth giving up. They went into their next shift in their street clothes and announced that they would be quitting and not coming back. As much as we love to side with employees in these types of stories, a couple of things that stick out to…
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Delivery Guy's Sky-High Stack of Boxes Floods Entire Kitchen in Surprising Chain of Events

We've all been there; you're already having a bad day, behind schedule, and rushing to try and catch up to get back on top of things. All this hustle leads you to make a critical error that you wouldn't normally have made… If you're lucky you catch it. If not, well, that could be the end of your entire career.
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Entitled Karen Wants A Salad, Orders a Not Salad, Tantrum Ensues

This entitled Karen insisted on ordering a salad. However, the salad she was ordering was, in fact, not a salad. Despite the waiter's attempts to explain this to her, she refused to listen and then proceeded to have a meltdown once her "salad" arrived.
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Bar in New Zealand Sparks Controversy, Roasted For Posting Job Ad With Requirements For 'Double D Breasts'

For those overseas, yeah, that's not legal here either.
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Couple Gets Served Instant Karma After 'Dine and Dash' Attempt

This couple thought that they could get away with pulling a good ol' fashioned “dine and dash” but luckily the staff were able to pull their plates as they drove off. The police managed to locate the vehicle and let the The ‘dine and dash’ is perhaps the greatest indicator of the decline of our society. That's an exaggeration, but it stands to reason that these people are one of the worst types of human beings.
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Owners Want to Know What's Wrong With Their Restaurant, Not Happy to Hear That It's Them

When this server, who has a bachelor's in business management, was brought on to work in a restaurant's bar they were told by the owners to keep an eye out for what might be causing the problems in their establishment. After starting up, it became abundantly clear to the server that it was the owners themselves that were the problem. Predictably, they did not like being informed of that fact. This story is probably not going to be of surprise to anyone with experience in the service industry. T…
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Update: Chef Quits, Walks Out During Rush, Owner Wants to Meet, Turns Out to Be a Trap

Thanks to the advice they received in their original post this chef avoided a terrible meet-up.
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Customer Sure They've Been Cheated, Wants More Fish, Ends Up With Less Fish

One Fish, Two Fish, Less-Fish-For-You Fish
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Retail Worker Puts Horrible Customer in Their Place, Manager Doubles Down

Every retail worker and customer service person has wished that they could do this.
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Chef Throws Pan at Line Cook, Gets Fired, Kitchen Staff Commiserate

The Chef was "panned" by readers.
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Hungry Karen Orders Pizza From A Craft Store

Need I say more?
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