Essex in Charlotte NC, who is notorious on this sub for taking a cut of their servers tips from tables who paid with a credit card, just fired my partner.
The restaurant had been selling liquor for weeks without a liquor license, selling liquor from bottles without a sticker on it (restaurants/bars in NC need an official sticker on their liquor bottles in order to distribute). Yesterday the cops showed up to the establishment, and essentially stopped them from selling liquor. The managers fled the scene, until the situation was figured out enough by their subordinates.
Today, my partner (who is just a server) went in to work. Her manager (whose job it is to renew the liquor license) pulled her aside. Ultimately, he blames her for the cops showing up and giving them the consequences for selling liquor without a license, and fires her.
Just another injustice being upheld by a shitty institution in this city.