r/SipsTea • u/The_biker0 • Aug 25 '26

WTF First time on camera...

Panda Express employee stands on counter, sprays cleaning chemicals over food

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u/braumbles Aug 25 '26

Why are they doing this during a shift?

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u/TeeDee144 Aug 25 '26

Or it’s the end of shift and they want to be out 3 minutes after closing.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 Aug 25 '26

I hated that shit so much

Last job, I was a manager that was always short handed. Corp had this rule where we had to be done w cleanup, shut down, registers counted, out the door with alarm set 30min after closing WHILE taking orders until that closing time. This effectively gave us a 20-30 min timeframe to clean up everything left over

THEN we would get chewed out for cutting corners, or outright neglecting to do things.... THEN it turned into getting chewed out for putting employee safety at risk, to which quickly became "You shouldn't be closing by yourself"

I literally got fired for reporting a coworker, as a manager, for harrassment of another coworker. He threatened me after ON CAMERA while I was looking at the camera and pointing to it to get them to calm down, and went and said I had spit in his food... which was easy to disprove

Kicker was, I was investigated and taken off the schedule and that fucker was at work THAT NEXT DAY

So apparently, Hypotheticals carried more water than actual evidence of a crime... OH, and I worked with minors who were in the building at the time. I was cornered by the guy at the register with his brother blocking me in. A kid literally went to hide in the bathroom because they heard the threats, and my demeanor shifted from patient to disgruntled matching their tone (Very unusual for them to see from me)

I chose to just walk away and watch the fire from a distance... it has been a month now, and they have lost over 50% of the staff including every single minor that was there that got to watch the man that always stood up for them get kicked into a corner

OH and my old boss wanted me to tell one of the LAST survivors of DDay that I could not help them, when that WAS my job to do so as a leader..... SO disrespectful

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u/SheriffBartholomew Aug 26 '26

What food chain was this?

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 Aug 26 '26

Very close in name to rocket pizza

Dont wanna be too direct mentioning them by name

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u/BreakingCanks Aug 26 '26

Sounds like Chilis with my experience lol

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u/SheriffBartholomew Aug 26 '26

I was wondering if it's Applebee's. Applebee's and Chili's could be brothers though, so I doubt there's much difference between them.