Need to rant about the worst employer I have ever had. I got hired as a server at a fine dining restaurant in Brevard county Florida. I was there for about a year and I was good at my job. I found out in November my mom had stage 3 skin cancer, at the time we didn’t know how long she had. I was faced with the real possibility of this being the last holiday season with her. I told my bosses this and was told sorry but everyone works Christmas Eve. They 100% could have ran without me, and my follow employees wouldn’t have cared. I worked because I needed the job but it definitely didn’t sit right with me.
A month later the bosses niece, a 20 year old who had been working for a month, started to try and tell me what to do. I told her to leave me alone because she’s not my boss, she got all bent out of shape and started crying in the middle of the shift. I was fired for that. I could have fought it, because I wasn’t fired for performance, but I had just graduated and was about to start my big boy office job in two weeks.
Also this same asshole drunkenly berated me in the middle of the lobby on a busy Friday night. I asked to step outside to make a phone call and he loudly and repeatedly accused me of being a drug addict for wanting to step outside.
Cafe Margoux in Cocoa Florida. Fuck that place and the people who own it.