For context, I worked as a host at a restaurant. I was working there on and off for 2 and a half years and started working there again around December 2022. This morning, I had the pleasure of receiving a text in the unofficial Snapchat host group chat telling me everyone just lost their job with no warning whatsoever.
Even better is the fact that a MANAGER didn't tell me, it was another HOST who broke the news. The one who was scheduled to be in this morning. And now they're paying $20/hr for the next 3 days to anyone who wants to help tear down.
“Why 3 days?” you might ask. Funny enough, the restaurant got an eviction notice because they hadn't been paying off the property as they should've. So the “we're not making enough money” excuse was due to the massive amount of debt they were found in.
Thankfully for me, I got an interview for another job this morning and it seems pretty positive for me, but everyone else has no idea what to do — not even our new GM who was hired in the middle of last year. Which is crazy considering he and all the other managers got the news broken to them on Monday. You'd think it'd be important to alert the staff too, right? … Right??…
Anyway whatever Imma try and file for unemployment.