50. Party’s Over
I came to open the restaurant and found that things weren’t quite right. Things like there were way more glasses left on the end of the bar than would be normal for after-shift drinks, and there were quite a few barstools and chairs that were not flipped up on the bar or table. When I went towards the office, I spotted a sink broken off the wall in a staff-only bathroom. But that wasn’t the worst part.
The office by that bathroom had a chair in it that had poo mashed into the seat with a ridge line running down the middle of it to resemble a rear-end crack. At that point, I was like, “What happened here last night”? and walked out of the office area back to the restaurant floor, where I noticed a disheveled-looking waitress sleeping on one of the booth benches.
The cleaning crew would come in early, and one of them then told me that one of the managers was there when he arrived. He woke up from the noise but was completely trashed, and the cleaning crew found him taking a leak on the empty kegs stacked outside the cold room before he stumbled out. We contacted the owners, and they came in to see what on earth had happened.
They were confused because the manager who was seen waking up was not working the night before. It turned out that he and some of his friends came by at closing time the night before and started carrying on with an after-party with the staff who were on duty. The manager who worked that night was convinced he could go home when he was done with his work, as the partying manager said he would lock up.
We assumed that the manager got busy with the waitress on the chair in the office because that spot was out of view from the windows and security cameras. The manager who was working got reamed out and narrowly avoided losing his job for such poor judgment. The waitress got suspended for a week. The trashed manager must’ve been passed out because he didn’t respond. He came in at around 2 PM, still pretty trashed, apologizing and saying he didn’t know what happened. He tried to clean the poo off of the chair with paper towels, then was promptly fired.