11. Her Job Was A Smash Up
I worked as a bartender at a restaurant. I was cashing out a waitress who decided to enter the bar to “make herself a smoothie”. After fumbling around, she dropped a glass from the hanger, and it smashed all over the counter. I told her she was going to have to clean it up before I could finish cashing her out. She then begged me for her tips, saying that she needed them right away, as her friend to whom she owed money was waiting outside.
She told me that she was going to deliver the money, then come back and clean it up. She never came back, and I had to replace all the ice and all of the fruit garnishes on a busy weekend night because of broken bits of glass that landed all over. Of course, the manager came over to ask me why the drink tickets were 10 minutes long, and I told him what had happened.
He then immediately went into the schedule and gave all her future shifts away to others. The waitress called the restaurant not even five minutes later to ask why her shifts had been forcibly given away, and the manager replied, “Cause you’re fired”, and hung up.