They haven't seen the last of me!
At the end of September, I got fired from Red Lobster. I was fired because there were tickets that had been rang in under my number and then discounted when they shouldn't have been. This had happened to two other bartenders as well and, as a result, we all got fired. I tried to explain how it wasn't me and that anyone could have accidentally or intentionally rang things in under my number, but they weren't having it.
At first I had decided to count my losses and move on. Sure, I had worked at the place for four and a half years and done absolutely everything for them, but screw it. If they didn't want to believe me, then I didn't need them. But after a while I started getting bitter. I did a little investigating of my own, since the company obviously wasn't going to do any. I found the root of the problem. Two guys had been discounting tickets by adding the crew meal discount and pocketing half the money. They did it under all of our numbers and didn't even realize it.
I finally got one of them to write a statement saying it was him and not me and I called the district manager of the company. I told him my story and he basically said he didn't care. He told me if I didn't agree with the outcome I could do a peer review and that was my only option.
A peer review is when you go before a panel of employees (two co-workers and one manager) and tell them your story. The panel decides if the company had cause to fire the employee or not, and if they didn't, the employee gets there job back.
When I started going through the peer review process, they just gave me the run around. I called one person who told me I needed to call another person, who told me I needed to call another person, who told me I needed to call the original person I talked to. I think they were doing it in an attempt to get me to give up, but they obviously don't realize how stubborn I am. I wasn't going to just give up, and I'm glad I didn't.
Now I'm at the point of having my peer review. It will take place within the next 14 days and I will have an answer within 30 days of that. Yes, it's been a really long process, but I don't care. It's worth it.
The panel consists of two girls that I have worked with for years and a manager who I get along with really well. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I have a really good feeling about this.
If I do get my job back, which I think I will, I plan to go in and show them what they were missing out on. Then when our district manager comes back to our store, I plan to look him straight in the eye and give him the "fuck you buddy, you can't get rid of me" look!
At first I had decided to count my losses and move on. Sure, I had worked at the place for four and a half years and done absolutely everything for them, but screw it. If they didn't want to believe me, then I didn't need them. But after a while I started getting bitter. I did a little investigating of my own, since the company obviously wasn't going to do any. I found the root of the problem. Two guys had been discounting tickets by adding the crew meal discount and pocketing half the money. They did it under all of our numbers and didn't even realize it.
I finally got one of them to write a statement saying it was him and not me and I called the district manager of the company. I told him my story and he basically said he didn't care. He told me if I didn't agree with the outcome I could do a peer review and that was my only option.
A peer review is when you go before a panel of employees (two co-workers and one manager) and tell them your story. The panel decides if the company had cause to fire the employee or not, and if they didn't, the employee gets there job back.
When I started going through the peer review process, they just gave me the run around. I called one person who told me I needed to call another person, who told me I needed to call another person, who told me I needed to call the original person I talked to. I think they were doing it in an attempt to get me to give up, but they obviously don't realize how stubborn I am. I wasn't going to just give up, and I'm glad I didn't.
Now I'm at the point of having my peer review. It will take place within the next 14 days and I will have an answer within 30 days of that. Yes, it's been a really long process, but I don't care. It's worth it.
The panel consists of two girls that I have worked with for years and a manager who I get along with really well. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I have a really good feeling about this.
If I do get my job back, which I think I will, I plan to go in and show them what they were missing out on. Then when our district manager comes back to our store, I plan to look him straight in the eye and give him the "fuck you buddy, you can't get rid of me" look!
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