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[quote=Anonymous]I worked at a restaurant called The Beaver House. Hold the jokes- it was an old house turned into a restaurant run by the Beaver family. The mother ran it with her middle son, who was a SUPREME DICK. Classic middle child syndrome, I know now. His older brother actually owned the house from when his father died but had nothing to do with the business, and the younger son was a cycling star and baby of the family, so middle son was left to run the family business. He was awful- the entire time I was in college (I worked there when I was 19) there was a "Now Hiring" sign on the marquee because turnover was so high. By the time I'd been there three months, I was the second most senior person on staff. One time I was standing with another girl in the dish closet stacking plates and he shoved through us and said, "Move, fuckheads." This was a man whose wife was pregnant at the time with a baby girl, God help her.

The week of finals, this guy scheduled me to work 60 hours. Also, we had to pool our tips at the end of the shift and then we were given paychecks at the end of each week. He claimed to have a complicated system for equally distributing tips based on who worked the most hours, etc. etc. but mostly, I think he was skimming them off the top and pocketing them. The week I worked 60 hours, I got a paycheck for $200. INFURIATED. They were open on Thanksgiving day so I had to work Thanksgiving and drive home after we'd closed to see my family.

The final straw was when Walmart was going to have their corporate Christmas party at the restaurant. This was a party for 300 people; we had 3 girls on staff. Three girls for 300 people. This guy told us the day before he needed us there at 5 am to clean the house. I told him I was NOT a maid and if he wanted me to clean the house, he could pay me federal minimum wage that day and let me keep all my tips. He told me I could find another job if that was how I felt, and my blood was boiling. He wanted us there the next day from 5 am to about 2 am between cleaning the house, serving lunch, and then setting up and serving the party. So the next day, I didn't show up for my shift. (Very common among employees.) I have NEVER done this- I have always been a model employee everywhere I have ever worked. But this man had it coming. The ONLY way to treat him was to fuck him over. He called my phone once that day but got the picture pretty quick since he was used to this. I woke up every single morning for three months after that just thanking God I didn't have to go work at that restaurant that day. [/quote]

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