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. 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by Redditor u/mynameisfifield. They shared their story with the popular subreddit with the title "Owner of a restaurant wanted me to "spy" and tell them what was wrong with the restaurant, so I did."

Commenters had the following to say:

"What they really wanted was for you to ferret out the bad workers that were costing them money," commented StoicJim. "When you did, and it turns out it was them, they rejected your claim."

"Wow!" remarked Cfwydirk "The costs and scrutiny of obtaining a liquor license and paying the insurance bill. No doubt the kitchen is not fully up to speed. This is a tough business. Even well-run bar/restaurants can be hard to make money. What a wonderful way to flush money down the toilet!"

"The kitchen is even worse," replied the original poster. "They also had a 'trainee' by themselves with the menu hung up on the ticket rack making the orders."

Funniest Tinder Fail Memes We Saw This Week

Tinder is a very interesting place. We've all dabbled into its antics from time to time. Whether it was in college to get upperclassmen to secure you with endless booze, or in your late twenties after you got out of that casual 4-year relationship and as a way to learn all of the new dating terms and 'see what you were missing out on.' Yeah, it appears we all live very similar lives at the end of the day. We've all probably had the experience as well of deleting and re-downloading the app a few times. The term 'a few' can definitely vary from person to person.

 

How long do you think you should wait when you start seeing someone to delete all of your dating apps? It's a valid question, no? Perhaps it truly varies from person to person, or from relationship to relationship. Whatever the case may be, whatever reason you have for taking a peak at the app every couple of days, or months, you're sure to come across some pretty hilarious fails. So let's enjoy ourselves together, shall we?

Viral Thread: Manager Tells Worker to Find Cover or Delay Putting Their Dog Down, Worker Quits

A worker has put their employer on blast for telling them they needed to find cover or change the date that they were going to put their dog down.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit by Redditor u/lailette. The thread was posted with the title "Put in my notice because my boss asked me if I could change the day I put my dog to sleep." and contains screenshots of a text conversation that was allegedly between them and their manager. 

"This was what I received from my boss after asking for help regarding having to put my dog to sleep and not being able to make my 5 AM shift because of it," explained the poster in a caption that accompanied the screenshots. "I worked at Starbucks for over 2.5 years and called out/was out sick a total of three or four times." 

The more you think about it, the more bizarre the idea of "finding your own cover" gets. The practice arises from most retailers' insistence on saving labor costs by eternally understaffing their stores. Owners and middle managers alike reason that if you're running on bare minimum staff at all times, you ensure that you're never "wasting money" by being overstaffed. What this really means is that you, the retail manager, and your staff are always balancing on a knife's blade of preparedness. Constantly one overly busy rush or sick employee away from having the entire operation go off the rails and fail.

When the manager then tries to go to middle-management to get more staff because rostered staff are missing shifts, they're often told to "figure it out" or directly told that the company policy is that 'staff need to find their own cover if they're missing a shift.' Thus, the policy arises. 

This is especially bad at places where a manager's most important KPI is how low they are keeping their labor costs.

Commenters were dissatisfied with the manager's response and suggested a course of action. They had this advice for those who found themselves in the same situation.

"NEVER explain your situation to a boss," suggested GetMad24. "Only say family emergency and that's it. They will hold it against you."

"This is a LPT! Stop telling them!" replied judyvi. "They don't need to know! And stop expecting them to act like normal human beings with empathy. Most people only give a sh*t about themselves."

 

Meme Meister: Fail Blog's Top 20 Memes of the Week That We've Posted to Facebook (August 1, 2022)

Despite drawing abysmal traffic from social channels in week one, the previous iteration of this list received so many upvotes on site that I feel obligated to continue with this. Seriously guys? Do you like this stuff? 

Meanwhile, the Logan Paul tweet that I ran received nearly 100% downvotes. I ain't even mad. That's just impressive. Kudos to the one person who spoiled the 100% ratio by upvoting. 

Here's this week's collection of twenty of my favorite memes, which I am henceforth referring to as "top memes" because I'm a narcissistic editor who believes that my choice and creative notions are superior to any other's. These memes have all been posted to our Facebook page sometime in the last few weeks.

Who knows? Maybe the gods of Facebook and Google will even decide that this week's list deserves distribution.

Keep scrolling to peruse this week's collection, and please save the ones you like to your own collections and share the memery around.