Basically, the same thing happened to me back in the late (or mid) 90s.
All the signs of desperation were there too. And, instead of filing for bankruptcy to get our last paychecks, somehow we were there on the day we learned the place was closing down. Let's just say that we made up at least some of the discrepancy in the checks. I'll write about all that stuff one day soonish, for there is a TON of drama to report.
We definitely made up for our bounced paychecks as well. There were so many weird things that happened throughout the company in just the couple of years that I worked at this place, I will have to write more about it.
Same here, dude. I have a lot to say about this time. I was kind of taken aback when I wanted to talk about the movie/food connection with Andrew, but I started remembering stories I wanted to share and had to turn the tap off! At least one good injury story is from there, one I didn't get to share w/the Slicing and Dicing piece we did a while back.
Another interesting read. And an accurate take on what unfortunately often happens in the restaurant business. Having worked in the business, then being self employed in the accounting side for years with restaurants as a specialty I’ve first hand seen the incompetence and lack of restaurant mgmt knowledge of some in charge.
I can imagine how stressful this was for all the staff and you. It's crucial that whoever runs the business has the skills to manage staff, money and resources and not just frivolously pretend run a business.
There was absolutely a massive amount of frivolous pretending going on at the executive level in this company, but as stressful as it was to all of a sudden be out of a job, I was lucky enough to have some unknown person anonymously pay my rent. One of my neighbors came over and handed me over $1,000 dollars in cash that they had collected from their co-workers after they heard about the business closing, another person supplied gift cards so we could get groceries, the community was very supportive.
Damn! Go read what I wrote today (with Andrew Sniderman):
https://goatfury.substack.com/p/movie-food
Basically, the same thing happened to me back in the late (or mid) 90s.
All the signs of desperation were there too. And, instead of filing for bankruptcy to get our last paychecks, somehow we were there on the day we learned the place was closing down. Let's just say that we made up at least some of the discrepancy in the checks. I'll write about all that stuff one day soonish, for there is a TON of drama to report.
We definitely made up for our bounced paychecks as well. There were so many weird things that happened throughout the company in just the couple of years that I worked at this place, I will have to write more about it.
Same here, dude. I have a lot to say about this time. I was kind of taken aback when I wanted to talk about the movie/food connection with Andrew, but I started remembering stories I wanted to share and had to turn the tap off! At least one good injury story is from there, one I didn't get to share w/the Slicing and Dicing piece we did a while back.
Another interesting read. And an accurate take on what unfortunately often happens in the restaurant business. Having worked in the business, then being self employed in the accounting side for years with restaurants as a specialty I’ve first hand seen the incompetence and lack of restaurant mgmt knowledge of some in charge.
I can imagine how stressful this was for all the staff and you. It's crucial that whoever runs the business has the skills to manage staff, money and resources and not just frivolously pretend run a business.
There was absolutely a massive amount of frivolous pretending going on at the executive level in this company, but as stressful as it was to all of a sudden be out of a job, I was lucky enough to have some unknown person anonymously pay my rent. One of my neighbors came over and handed me over $1,000 dollars in cash that they had collected from their co-workers after they heard about the business closing, another person supplied gift cards so we could get groceries, the community was very supportive.
It is very moving what your neighbour and his coworkers did. We seldom hear things like that and stories like that. What an amazing thing to do.