I've never experienced such poor treatment at any job I've had, but this goes beyond toxic.
We've had a new manager take over the last two months who's condescending, insulting (made one female server cry and quit), and generally unorganized while pushing poor rule changes.
Today, I was working tables and a customer who I conversated with throughout his stay had left a generous $60 tip when he left, then right after him was a second gentlemen with his wife who also jumped in on some of the conversations who left afterward, leaving a $50 tip, very friendly people.
I continued working as normal until I was called into the office by our charismatic manager. Who for some reason I don't know if it's due to discrimination, if he himself was on drugs or what, but he wanted me to turn in the tips I received from those two and accused me of making a drug sale(??) with both of them.
We got into a heated argument where he was just pulling excuses out his ass about how no one would tip that high and how I was doing some sort of deal for the tips. I went to the break room, and later I found out from another employee he was looking into my car in the parking lot. I was about to go back out on the floor and two police cars came up, and I was called to the back. The officers said that I had been “caught” with drugs in my car.
We went to my car with the manager, and the manager pointed out a bag in my car that clearly wasn't drugs but he said were drugs. The police told me to open my vehicle and I said no. They took this little metal piece and knocked on my back window a few times shattering it and opening the door from the inside. They searched all over my car for about 45 minutes finding NOTHING, and the bag that was said to be drugs was just a bag I keep some spare change in and some coupons.
The police ended up leaving, and I found out that local protections prevent the police from being held accountable for property damage if they followed a call on “good faith”. I put in a complaint with HR and was told to clock out and wait, then they would get back to me on this “horrible” situation.
Within the last 2 hours I got an E-mail not only NOT acknowledging what happened, but pretending it never happened. The E-mail I received was saying that the top management came together to review my performance and decided mutually that they would have to let me go from the job. This was clearly to cover up my managers boneheaded mistake they are trying to hide, of him falsely calling the police:
The worst part about this is that I live in my car as my house, so I now have a giant hole in my back window (pictured above, sorry for the cheap phone cam clarity but it's still visible) and I'm far from the city so there's no Home Depot or anything out here. The cheapest merchant I can find wants $120 to replace the glass, and $80 if I just want to cut a plastic seal in place of replacing the window.
Now that I am currently out of a job I can't afford either of those, and who knows how long until I get another job. Most of my stuff is in my car including the laptop I use for job searching, and there are some shady characters out at night along with bad weather and insects to deal with without fixing the hole. I can't really drive anywhere now either because I have to conserve what money I have without wasting gas. I called a couple of attorneys and they all repeat the police can't be charged, and I would have to fight the company if I want any compensation which could take months. But my broken window needs to be fixed now, not months.
I swore off serving jobs many years ago but came back just 5 months ago out of necessity and already things have gone to crap. (Sorry about the formatting reddit keeps breaking the spaces between paragraphs.)