Me and a couple other students at this new boba place in town were fired today because we “were not following instructions”.
For context, we had three days of training and then a “soft opening” for friends and family. The three days of training only covered half of the menu, so when the soft opening came, we only knew half of it. The customers were ordering from the half we didn’t know how to make, so we were trying to follow the recipe sheets that were in front of us so we could serve the customers.
Except for the fact that the manager wanted us to have her help with every single drink that we didn’t know how to do…which was practically every single drink order. Obviously, being attentive to customer needs, we would attempt to make the drink on our own (and mess up a few times because we didn’t put things in the cup in their correct order) but all in all we got the drinks out.
Me and a few others received a text message today that we were no longer employed. Before they even opened. Because we made mistakes while learning/training, and did not wait for the manager to help us with every single drink we didn’t know how to make.
We are just students, they were only paying us $12/hour. The entitlement that they think they can fire people before they even open is frankly absurd to me.