Hard Worker
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA
Hey all,
Any insight is appreciated. I doubt there is anything to this, it just bugs me.
I live in Humboldt County, Northern CA. I'd been working as a bartender/waiter at a hotel for a little over three years through five different managements.
When the latest owner, a corporation in the Bay Area bought the place the new GM told me they wanted me to manage the bar but they had to lay me off for a couple weeks while they got the liquor license transferred. Four months later they reopened the bar and hired me back at $10 an hour. I worked for five months and then the GM pulled me aside when I came in and said the corporate bosses had decided to "eliminate the bartending position". They fired most of the restaurant staff as well and made the bar into the dining room. They gave my job to the waitress that made minimum wage ($8). They just wanted to save 10 bucks a day.
I wrote a letter that night that explained who I was and how that was a bad decision since I knew everyone by name and drink. I finished by saying I couldn't see how they "knew anything about hospitality when they treated their employees like crap". That was the worst of it.
Recently I ran into the GM at the grocer that told me they wouldn't hire me back because of that letter.
The position wasn't eliminated, the bar is still open. There is no union, I know they couldn't have done that. I had no contract. I never complained about things like never getting a break, basically a model employee, really no reason to fire me other than saving that ten bucks which they have lost more due to my regulars not going there anymore.
Any ways, is that the state of affairs today, just fired like that?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
Hey all,
Any insight is appreciated. I doubt there is anything to this, it just bugs me.
I live in Humboldt County, Northern CA. I'd been working as a bartender/waiter at a hotel for a little over three years through five different managements.
When the latest owner, a corporation in the Bay Area bought the place the new GM told me they wanted me to manage the bar but they had to lay me off for a couple weeks while they got the liquor license transferred. Four months later they reopened the bar and hired me back at $10 an hour. I worked for five months and then the GM pulled me aside when I came in and said the corporate bosses had decided to "eliminate the bartending position". They fired most of the restaurant staff as well and made the bar into the dining room. They gave my job to the waitress that made minimum wage ($8). They just wanted to save 10 bucks a day.
I wrote a letter that night that explained who I was and how that was a bad decision since I knew everyone by name and drink. I finished by saying I couldn't see how they "knew anything about hospitality when they treated their employees like crap". That was the worst of it.
Recently I ran into the GM at the grocer that told me they wouldn't hire me back because of that letter.
The position wasn't eliminated, the bar is still open. There is no union, I know they couldn't have done that. I had no contract. I never complained about things like never getting a break, basically a model employee, really no reason to fire me other than saving that ten bucks which they have lost more due to my regulars not going there anymore.
Any ways, is that the state of affairs today, just fired like that?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
