A comment to another post reminded me of this, so I figured I would share.
Back in 2021 my wife was working at a well known restaurant about 2 miles from our house. As she would use uber to get back and forth every day her paychecks were spent completely on transportation. In other words she wasn't working there for the money.
Our city had an ice storm around mid January, and as such she was unable to find a ride. No Uber, Lyft, or even taxis were willing to touch those roads.
She calls her manager to inform him that she doesn't have a way to work, so he decides to send one of the cooks to pick her up and drive her in. She was on the clock for 15 minutes before he (manager) decided she could go home because they weren't busy… she asked how she was to get home and was told to “figure it out.”
2 days later she calls me crying because no one was driving again and her manager is saying he was sending the cook to get her again. I didn't even know about “last time” nor did I know that she was made to walk home.
I called the place, requested the manager and told him that she will not be there. He threatened to fire her for it only for me to laugh at him. I am a trucker making 7 times what she makes and she is literally working there because she is lonely.
She ended up quitting about 2 months after that as her manager began scheduling her every day and sending her home less than an hour later.
We ended up going in afterwards and tipping her favorite coworker $80 on a $36 order while making sure he saw us.