I was working at this restaurant/vinyl bar in Houston and I loved it for awhile. My old co-worker/roommate was the bar manager so when I had left some place that was absolutely terrible, he said they needed someone who could serve and bartend. Flash forward to recently, my friend quit, a lot of the other original staff members quit, so it was me and a bunch of new people. Which is fine. But the main issue is that we do tip pooling so it's all about team work. So many of the people there realized they can basically stand around and do nothing and make money regardless. When it's busy, they'd be moving a little bit, but the few people who were happy to hustle and put in more effort were having to work twice as hard. My most recent paycheck this last week was under $1000 and it's happened way too many times at this place; I make really good money as a server, or I have many times in the past, and it just wasn't happening here. So I have not been in the best of moods there the last few days and last night kind of sealed the deal. The owner was out of town this weekend, meaning we only had one manager and he didn't want to work last night so he went home. He does live very close, within reasonable walking distance, but it got busy suddenly and some things went wrong with a few tables. Everyone kept asking me to help fix the issues, on top having tables to take care of, and I just kind of lost it.
This morning, I show up, thirty minutes early, to start setting up the restaurant. The manager is already there, most of the stuff is already done so I start finishing up little things before we open and he starts berating me, telling me that everyone was saying I couldn't stop talking shit about him when, funnily enough, everyone was talking about him the entire shift. So I told him that the restaurant has started to go downhill since the old manager left, which is true, and that no one that was hired after he left was worth a damn. He left for some reason and I decided I didn't want to deal with that bullshit and clocked out, grabbed my stuff and my vinyls that I had there and went home.
So, now I have to try and find a new job soon but I don't feel stressed about not working right now. I should because money has been tight thanks to be trying to be loyal to that restaurant but I know I'll figure it out, even if I have to sell plasma a few times to make a little extra money.