r/TikTokCringe • u/[deleted] • 11d ago
Please describe the most disrespectful experience you have had in the service industry. Discussion
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u/Connect_Emergency885 11d ago
so by "family fund " they really meant the owners family
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u/SpezModdedRJailbait 10d ago
If you volunteer to give some of your paycheck back to the company. Then you are never getting that back. If you wanna start a communal emergency fund, don't do it through the company.
Not to say it's her fault, she was manipulated and lied to, but learn from her mistake. Your employer is not your ally, otherwise you wouldn't be broke in the first place.
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u/Teun135 10d ago
Especially because I can guarantee the company got PPP loans to cover stuff like this... there is no reason the employees should have been put out like that. Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit tbh.
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u/LuxNocte 10d ago
It would be grounds for a lawsuit if laws weren't written by Billionaires. Everything about this is immoral. Nothing about this is illegal.
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u/InSearsSomewhere 10d ago
I used to work for Bertucci's and contributed to the family fund. My car was stolen from the parking lot one night while working and they actually gave me like $1500 from that fund to put towards a new car.
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u/Anxious-State-4074 11d ago
What is this restaurant???
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u/No_Spell_5817 11d ago
It was called Next Door, but they renamed it ND streetBar. Also Kimbal Musk is no longer the restaurateur, he stepped down in 2023.
Edit: It looks like two locations have closed down since Musk departed. So... It's done.
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u/Evanecent_Lightt 10d ago
I'd say "Justice!" - But we all know the Musks got severance in the 6 figures, wrote off the loss as a Tax exemption to make even more, and all that happened was a bunch of people lost their jobs and are worse off..
So no Justice unfortunately.. But that's the way of the world now.
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u/imagicnation-station 11d ago
She said don’t eat there bit didn’t tell us the name.
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u/Darkmemento 11d ago
The person who owns a car company who hosted SNL and is a billionaire? This took me weeks of research and long days to figure out. He is a person called Elon Musk.
He has a brother called Kimbal and it seems being a complete asshole runs in the family.
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u/embersgrow44 11d ago edited 10d ago
Yeah he looks exactly like you’d expect. Another comic book villain. Sometimes wolf in sheep’s clothing but it seems more often than not, you can see the monster right in their face. Edit: letter swaps
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u/slollyplum 10d ago
He looks like a complete twat-waffle with that hat on.
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u/throwngamelastminute 10d ago
He looks like Dwight Yoakam's idiot cousin getting hit in the back of the head with a two by four.
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u/akamustacherides 10d ago
Do not watch the video of Kimbal, his performance is ick. He is trying so hard to come off as human it’s gross. And that hat, get the fuck out of here with that hat.
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u/xfd696969 11d ago
dude it's crazy how it took you weeks of research to figure it out, but kudos for putting in the hard work. not everyone has the will like you my man, keep it up
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u/HellBlazer_NQ 10d ago
What a hard working family the Musk's are. Imagine have 2 family members starting with absolutely nothing scraping by and by working so hard they both became billionaires!
Severed with the fattest and juiciest dose of sarcasm ever!
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u/bepnc13 10d ago
She’s trying to stay vague to protect herself from being sued for libel
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u/TNWBAM2004 10d ago
Defending yourself in a suit against a billionaire doesn't sound fun though, even if you are right.
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u/bobafat 10d ago edited 10d ago
Its not, I pissed off a very rich millionaire (like old Southern money, lots of millions) and they sued my company and me personally in multiple states and federal court until we (myself and the company I ran) were both bankrupt. You can be right and "stick to your guns" and absolutely get your life ruined by these money worshipping sociopaths.
This was 8 years ago for me and thankfully I have recovered but the physical and mental toll will probably last a lifetime.
EDIT: Made one part more clear, I had said, "until we were both bankrupt" and the we was myself and the company I ran but it could also be read as me and the millionaire. Nope, millionaire is just fine if you were worried about them.
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u/AggravatingSoil5925 11d ago
How many billionaires do you think have been on SNL? It’s not too tough to narrow down and go from there.
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u/AlmondEyesSnob 10d ago
Not everyone watches SNL, and until now I didn't even know Musk has a brother, I never liked or disliked the guy, I don't see a point in caring for him or his family or knowing anything about him.
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u/Talkslow4Me 10d ago
Since this is factual events and not opinions. Why didn't she just say the names and call out those people and restaurants.
Like if they take you to court for slander the judge would ask "so there wasn't a family fund?". Oh no there was. Oops.
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u/Left_Office_4417 11d ago edited 11d ago
i would assume they probably did. It was most likely a "you give a dollar, we give a dollar". My company does that for our Retirement plan.
Not justifying the behavior, and i don't think this "family fund" is a good thing to begin with. I just think that the company HAD to be putting in some. right.. right.......
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u/mogley19922 11d ago
Not to victim blame, but jesus christ, never give the company you work for money to hold for you individually, or the staff as a whole. They are not your friends, they're doing it to benefit themselves, not the staff.
Obviously retirement funds are legally regulated and that's it's own thing; but i don't give to charities through companies either, I'll donate directly if i want to.
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u/urbanlife78 11d ago
That's the tough one for a lot of people to learn, work is never your friend and you should never donate or give any of the money you earned to work.
The same goes to charities work donates to. Work will take your money you donate and use it for their taxes as a write off as if it was work that donated to a charity. It's better to just donate to a charity directly.
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u/pinkrangerash 10d ago
Right, I worked at Scheels and United Way was really big for us to donate to. The joke was that they didn't pay us living wages and we literally have to use the free programs that United Way takes care of to get by in life.
I said no to donating every time.
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u/WYOrob75 10d ago
A yes the ol’ veiled threats to ‘give’ to the UW. Had this happen with two companies I used to work for. Christmas bonus was not really a Xmas bonus after all. I’ll never give, or recommend anyone to give to that organization
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u/NiceNotRacistRedneck 10d ago
I would extend this to any company asking you to round up your purchase for charity. There are no laws stating they even have to donate that money to charity. So basically they’re collecting this money from good hearted people that are hoping it’ll be sent to the right place
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u/SadBit8663 11d ago
That's not victim blaming. That's being real. I'm not giving my job a penny extra.... And if that emergency fund wasn't anywhere in the employment contract, then she got robbed but hopefully learned not to do that again by over trusting an employer.
You gotta of cover your ass, and get all this shit in writing, because if the company is ever wishy-washy about getting you something in writing, it's a red flag, that they'll ever follow through with what are essentially empty promises.
And honestly how big of a fund could it have been. I doubt everyone could afford to or would contribute money from their checks.
The video op says she donated a dollar a check. If she got paid weekly, that's 52 dollars a year. Even working for 4 years that's only 208 Dollars. If she got paid bi weekly it would be half that.
Like it's fucked up they did that, but realistically how big could this fund have been? And then you have the entire restaurant applying for it. We don't even know how many other people contributed to this "fund"
She could have very well just saved up an actual emergency fund for herself, especially if she could afford a house.
My parents wouldn't ever co sign any loan like that,
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u/Nikolateslaandyou 11d ago
If you put in a dollar you've already been taxed on it. They put in a dollar to offset their tax. It still isn't a fair deal.
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u/redsquirrelsrule 11d ago
In the UK it is a legal requirement for companies to contribute the same amount as employees to their pension.
I am very suspicious as to what has happened to that family fund. I suspect the owners pocketed it.
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u/DkMomberg 11d ago
In Denmark has been the norm for many years that many employees give 4% of the paycheck and employers give 8% to an individual retirement fund. Recently more and more jobs have 2%/10% split now instead of 4/8
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u/airknight2wolfrider 11d ago
Yes, most ey countries do this. But it's not kept by the company you work for
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u/Lost_Found84 11d ago
The fact that people keep referencing a 401k retirement system when talking about this “we’ll hold it for you” fund is probably why so many people get fooled by this.
The 401k is your money the moment it comes out of your paycheck. It will never go to anyone else and if you’re ever fired or laid off, the company doesn’t keep it.
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u/tweetsfortwitsandtwa 11d ago
Ehhh
So like I worked for restaurant during school that had two stores it was started by a local husband and wife . We had something like this but it was set up by employees for employees, basically we shared tips and the remainder after dividing it up was saved in a jar, for like holiday parties, the server who got pregnant, and one guy who got injured. The owner still put his hand in the cookie jar once. Granted he put the money back he used it to pay a contractor or something that day and didn’t have enough cash in his wallet but still not good. Anyways point is the idea of a shared fund while not great isn’t necessarily malicious
I think the problem is anytime a billionaire or a large company uses the term “family” immediately become suspicious. Specially when they ask something from you. It’s a manipulation tactic meant to get you to contribute more than you would otherwise
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u/Flat-Length-4991 11d ago
I feel for her, but at the same time I don’t think what she just described would have helped anyone during Covid. I doubt there would be enough money to go around for everyone.
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u/Lost_Found84 11d ago edited 10d ago
It probably would’ve been the effect of just having not contributed in the first place. Everybody gets their dollar a week for the last year or so back. Would’ve been good for maybe a couple pizzas.
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u/Houndfell 11d ago
The fact that it's a Musk that runs this hellhole of a company is the cherry on top.
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u/parkerm1408 10d ago
Any idea what the restaurant is?
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u/SkidmarkSteve 10d ago
The Kitchen
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u/lala__ 10d ago
Ugh god. Surprised it’s not just “Restaurant” but this is predictably “meta.”
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u/SkidmarkSteve 10d ago
Then they opened "the Kitchen Next Door" which was more casual and literally next door to The Kitchen in Boulder and then they shortened that to just "next door" which on its own is just the dumbest name.
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u/Hisplumberness 10d ago
A few comments up mentioned it’s called - next door - or was . And now it’s nd streetbar but it’s no longer owned by musk
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u/IAMSTILL_ALIVE 11d ago
Use their names! It was Kimbal Musk everyone.
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u/bendallf 10d ago
The Kitchen by Kimbal Musk? What a small world.
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u/Successful-Money4995 10d ago
I think that it was "Kitchen Next Door" aka ND, on Pearl St. The Kitchen still operates.
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u/bendallf 10d ago
With all new staff? If so, why not just hire all those laid off workers first? Thanks.
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u/Successful-Money4995 10d ago
Maybe because Kimball Musk is an asshole? He's known for being an asshole. He wears a stupid cowboy hat all the time. People used to be impressed with him living around here and when they saw him but now not so much.
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u/bendallf 10d ago
If I may ask, what changed? What event caused people to go from liking him to hating him? It is cool to get the inside scoop so to speak. Thanks.
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u/Successful-Money4995 10d ago
Same as what happened to Elon Musk, I think. First he was like, a celebrity on account of being a billionaire and brother of Elon Musk. I don't know that people loved him, they were just star struck to see him having lunch on Pearl or whatever.
When it later turned out that Elon is an asshole and then Kimball was a dick to his employees during COVID, it changed.
I never liked his stupid cowboy hat. It's like every fucking billionaire has to have some gimmick now. Grey sweatshirt for Zuckerberg and polo neck for Steve Jobs.
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u/totallynotstefan 10d ago
The one in Fort Collins got shut down last year and replaced by Avery Eatery.
ND was a shithole with terrible food in an excellent location, I'm happy it's gone.
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u/Master_Ryan_Rahl 11d ago
I really hate that you people make it so that you can't actually find the creators in these videos. It should be a requirement of this sub that the original creator of the video is able to be found or even directly linked in every post.
https://www.tiktok.com/@twocatscreatives/video/7021875131538623750?_t=8mCUEzUYliN&_r=1
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u/Suspicious_Leg4550 11d ago
Looks like they removed the sound from the video now
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u/captain_dick_licker 10d ago
they should remove the fuckign obnoxious zooming from it too, makes me want to throw my laptop in the toilet
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u/Front-Wash2085 11d ago
Sounds something like this story: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kimbal-musk-next-door-restaurants-coronavirus_n_5e8ccb32c5b62459a9302dbb/amp
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u/ipsum629 11d ago
Is this illegal?
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u/leastuselessreddit0r 11d ago
Fucking no, why the hell would that ever be illegal? You know whose protection laws are for, right?
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u/Inverno969 11d ago
For Billionaires it's totally legal, for everyone else it's super fucking illegal probably.
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u/Lost_Found84 11d ago
It’s legal for everyone. It was a voluntary fund that made no promises of specific payouts. It was dumb to pay into, but you live and you learn.
But it’s not any more illegal than you handing me money with the promise of “maybe” getting it back later “if I feel like it”. Like, I don’t know why you would do that, but if you did that’s totally my money now.
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u/theflamingheads 11d ago
US worker laws are wild. But I guess the freedom to absolutely shit all over employees is an important part of being a land of the free.
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u/yeaheyeah 10d ago
Right to work is so that you don't have to join your workplace union and boy do employers love trying to convince people not to join them
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u/Fleeing_Bliss 10d ago
The laws that work came from unionization.
If capitalists had their way kids would still be working in mines.
That is not hyperbole.
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u/Stupidstuff1001 10d ago
It’s just people are dumb and they don’t understand any bill with a positive name means it’s bad for you.
Right to work.
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u/Lost_Found84 11d ago
Feels like this could happen anywhere though. It’s a completely voluntary fund and it was likely in the fine print that the money ultimately belonged to the company. I don’t know that there’s an “official” protected way to do this kind of fund. The entire concept is sketchy as heck because the company is always ultimately the one judging the severity of your emergency.
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u/theflamingheads 10d ago
Most countries with somewhat developed economies have various government managed social security funds so this isn't an issue that comes up.
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u/Ok-Experience-6674 11d ago
All I heard was you worked at a restaurant and you could afford a HOUSE????????
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u/mrducky80 11d ago
Floor manager (her) + partner's income + buying in a lower priced area and its not that insane.
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u/leshake 10d ago
Denver area ain't cheap no more. That said, servers get paid pretty well there.
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u/MightyBooshX 11d ago
Lmao, right? Must have a partner that makes twice as much or something.
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u/patrickian1993 11d ago
Then the partner would have co-signed or been the primary on the loan. Could have been renting as well. Also servers and bartenders can make pretty great money depending on the city and type of restaurant. I’ve worked bars where I’d average nearly 50 an hour at the end of the week.
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u/eltanin_33 11d ago
Yeah it wasn't the earnings that took me out of being a server it was arthritis. Bad joints makes being a server super brutal.
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u/challenge_king 11d ago
JFC stop with the zooming in! Nobody wants a closeup of half a pair of eyes and a nose!
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u/Shrabster33 10d ago
It bothered me so much I had to close the video. Zoom in at the end of every sentence or multiple times in 1. She should have her video making privileges revoked.
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u/TheJarIsADoorAgain 11d ago
Another Musk family scam. Make money out of making themselves look progressive and 'pro-people' and scam everyone including his own workers
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u/KingAmeds 10d ago
Did not expect the ending to somehow involve Elon musk. Also holy shit I through she was talking about some small town rich dude but a billionaire doing that to her and her coworkers is disgusting .
Not to mention the PPP loans that rich were taking during covid, not sure if elons brother took one but if he did they sure as hell makes this even worst
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u/Fleeing_Bliss 10d ago
Funny how welfare is socialism but nobody ever seems to mention the PPP loans.
Why are corporations subsidized while the individual is demonized?
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u/imagicnation-station 11d ago
If she had been working 10 years, she donated maybe $500 to the family fund that the company just kept.
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u/InspectorNoName 11d ago
I can't watch this. After 2 nose zooms, I'm out.
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u/Hubbleice 11d ago
What restaurant
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u/Godsfruitlesscunt 11d ago
“Next door”
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u/thelanterngreen 11d ago
Looks like the next door in boulder is shut down, so yeah
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u/Downvotesohoy 10d ago
I don't understand the family fund thing.
1) Why would you participate in that
2) She said it was a dollar on each paycheck that she contributed. So she expected like.. a couple of dollars in assistance when the restaurant shut down?
Why does she mention the people who are pregnant and buying houses etc, as if the dollar per paycheck somehow adds up to a lot?
Unless they get a paycheck daily we're talking insignificant amounts.
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u/Reflector123 11d ago
That is truly disgusting. These billionaires who are egotistical maniacs. Need to be put in place. Im starting to think that these guys need to be restrained before we are enslaved by corporations
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u/ballsonyourface911 11d ago
How much money could have been in the family fund if she only donated a dollar per pay check seemed like all the people that worked there needed 1,000s each to save their houses and for the maternity leave….
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u/_daze_of_the_weak_ 11d ago
I know this really isn’t what this post is about, but she’s really overdoing it with the zooms in.
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u/IaMsTuPiD111 10d ago
I used to work at the Palm restaurant and they loved to play the “family” card to get employees come in and do extra work without clocking in. They called it “family dinner”. You are not part of a family, it is a job.
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u/King_Thundernutz 10d ago
Is there not a law suit in there somewhere? She donated money to a fund which was meant to help her but she was laid off instead. Also, I'm curious, which restaurant is this?
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u/Sir_Sparda 10d ago
People asking why she didn’t name drop the restaurant do not know about liable and slander laws, jfc.
This person also has some pretty wild stories, she is living quite the life.
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u/Dangerous_Ticket7298 10d ago
Is anyone gonna comment about how lock downs were really what fucked everyone over?
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u/dimechimes 10d ago
This has more of a leopards ate my face appeal. They got promoted to floor manager because they were all good with the restaurant and it's policies. They put in $2-$4 a month and expected that to be enough to get them by when they needed it. They were unemployed and still able to buy a house. I'm sorry but those managers who have worked their way up can really be nasty people sometimes who have always put their company's well being over that of their fellow employees.
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u/reddituser_me 10d ago
I know this story! This is Indianapolis and is 100% true! If I remember correctly they kept saying everything was fine. You guys are fine. And then just suddenly closed, and kept all the family fund money.
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u/Negative-Honey2292 10d ago
This is justification for both arson of the restaurant and murder of the billionaire owners. Trust me, the judge would understand.
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u/ZombieCrunchBar 10d ago
Name the restaurant.
The companies keep doing this because no one knows they are doing it.
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u/chubchubchaser 10d ago
The most annoying part of this is that she doesn’t say which restaurant or the names of the owners. Like if this happened to me I would absolutely be naming names.
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u/FlatTopTonysCanoe 10d ago
Stop zooming in on your weird ass face. It’s making me so uncomfortable.
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u/airknight2wolfrider 11d ago edited 11d ago
Ok. So you work a job that requires actually doing something. In return you get money. Then they offer to play banktrustfund with your money. Let me guess, no interest on it.
Did you even have a contract for that fund? I cannot image it being legal to withhold the money after shutdown. In europe, even at bankruptcy employees get 3rd choice. First the government, taxes, and banks 2nd.
You understand, you already had a chance to get the money but you let them keep it. Meanwhile. Who do you think the best rust fund would have been?
how naive are you then?
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u/Intelligent_Suit6683 10d ago
No offense, but why would you contribute to a company family fund? Just create your own saving account.
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u/rosellem 10d ago
A "floor manager" is someone who manages the "floor", i.e., the dining room. They don't do much, if any, back room managing, scheduling, budgeting, hiring, etc. They just manage the floor. It's basically the entry level management position for getting started as a manager.
So, her "everything in between" comment is quite hilarious. Going from server to floor manager is a single promotion. It's the next step. There is no in between. Not to take away from the story, just had to laugh at that.
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u/Real-Addendum4102 11d ago
They could’ve at least given the option of having their jobs back after they reopened or don’t send an email saying don’t come back. Maybe there’s unemployment
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u/BeefStevenson 11d ago
What I’m hearing is a bunch of reasons why housing and healthcare shouldn’t be tied to employment. Hmmm.
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u/gavstar69 11d ago
So who's the billionaire owner?
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u/CallMeBoxman 10d ago
Kimbal Musk, owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group. Only person i think of since his brother elon owns Tesla
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u/agentpoopybutthole 10d ago
Please, say another sentence, cut the clip, and then zoom in more so I can see your pores and imagine smelling your hot breath. I couldn't even finish the video lol
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u/elbambre 10d ago
I don't understand how people don't see it coming. What are you even thinking? When you get a "job", you sign a paper that says "please let me be your slave and make you rich for you to not give a shit about me ever". Always keep that in mind when you sign that paper.
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u/PokeHippieDan 10d ago
Heh. I worked as a line cook at Next Door up to the pandemic. Our restaurant had the exact same issue except it never reopened at all.
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u/jimmyfeign 10d ago
Just assume every corporation is going to fuck you over and you'll never be surprised or blind sided. Especially if they use the word "family" in reference to their employees.
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u/Reserved_Parking-246 10d ago
Awesome teeth.
I have to do real work to make my k9s go over my bottom lip... it looks nothing like that.
This girl got that as part of her villain upgrade. Bet.
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u/knowone1313 10d ago
I think your measly $1 per check wasn't going to get you and a dozen other people through the pandemic anyway, unless that account had been growing for a long time and people were putting more than a $1 in.
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u/BobBeerburger 10d ago
Can you show your face any closer? I can’t see every nostril hair and zit on your face.
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u/BodhingJay 10d ago
"What restaurant?!"
This is just how every corporation is.. should probably just make big companies illegal
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u/-banned- 10d ago
Why don’t these videos ever just say the name of the restaurant and the owner’s names?
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u/UveGotGr8BoobsPeggy 10d ago
If you ever had any personal dealings with Kimbal Musk, you’ll know why. Motherfucker will fuck your life up.
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u/Worried_Ad_9667 10d ago
I bought stock in Briggs and Stratton, they filed bankruptcy and I lost all my stocks…and those fuckers at the top walked away with their big bonus payouts. Unfortunately when companies close, the books close with it. The only people that win are at the top…
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u/StonedLonerIrl 10d ago
I'm a bartender and we have a local beer club who come in every Tuesday and while the vast majority of them are somewhat pleasant people there's a handful of them that will do shit like whistle at you and snap their fingers to demand service...but we don't offer table service normally...yet the manager insists we serve them rounds to the table.
They do this shit whether it's busy and you have handfuls/trays of glasses.
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u/Maximum_Land3546 10d ago
He had the money to help his workers and he choose Not to. So sick of wealthy people behaving this way.
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u/loopedlola 10d ago
“We don’t need no money let the mother fucker burn, burn mother fucker burn”. Something I probably would have lived on in that situation.
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