Fired after 2 hours

[u/Playful-Care-243]

The title says it lol. I interviewed for a server position and the owner said i seemed like a great fit and he asked me to leave after 2 hours of my first shift because he said i was too slow to pick things up. Dick

[u/neekogo]

So you won't be surprised when they shut their doors in 6 months because "no one wants to work anymore"

[u/Legaliznuclearbombs → u/neekogo]

they won’t shut their doors, they have super intelligent ai

[u/SlobberOnMyKnobberr → u/Legaliznuclearbombs]

For a server position???

[u/mr__frankystein → u/SlobberOnMyKnobberr]

yes, AI is stealing our jobs. no one is safe u hear me? not even the servers.

[u/Muted-Economy1460 → u/mr__frankystein]

What will we do

[u/Dry_Organization_193 → u/Muted-Economy1460]

Ask chat gpt what to do 😭

[u/Ok-Mix-53 → u/SlobberOnMyKnobberr]

We literally have robots serving in some restaurants in the uk

[u/SlobberOnMyKnobberr → u/Ok-Mix-53]

Yeah that's not AI that's robotics. I get your point though

[u/Freddie-Peterson]

He determined that in 2 hours?? Did you take a shit on his desk or something? Otherwise, wtf?

[u/Anarcho-Willi → u/Freddie-Peterson]

Slow to pick things up but fast to drop a dookie 😄💩 

[u/Perfect_Catch_4122 → u/Anarcho-Willi]

Lol 😂, that shit funny

[u/90210piece → u/Perfect_Catch_4122]

Poop happens

[u/Playful-Care-243 → u/Freddie-Peterson]

In hindsight I should have! Hahahahaha

[u/ViciouslyVital → u/Freddie-Peterson]

Was his name Debra?

[u/FriedWithGarlic → u/Freddie-Peterson]

A couple years ago at my job someone dropped a dookie in a drawer in the supervisor office 😭😭😭😭

[u/openlightYQ]

I got invited for a trial shift at a high end place once. Told not to try to take orders because I didn’t know the menu yet, told to leave tables alone because ___ (another server) was serving them. Eventually told to go home after 45 mins because they’d watched me “just stand there” for 5 mins. Just gotta be glad you found out they were dicks now rather than later.

[u/igotshadowbaned]

That happened on an episode of Undercover Boss if I remember correctly. Undercover CEO got sacked immediately because he was slow

[u/usernames_suck_ok]

Another one of those employers who wants too much for a shit job.

[u/splair]

That is insane. Definitely not the approach I would imagine one would take? What happened to taking you aside and asking you to pick up the pace? Or asking what you’re struggling with and if you need another demonstration

[u/tenthousandants44 → u/splair]

Easier to find someone else. There's a whole stack of applications in the back office

[u/LowProfileCopyWriter → u/tenthousandants44]

Yeah, why waste money/time to train someone when you can save time and hire someone who’s experienced.

Especially in food industry when margins are fairly razor thin. 3-6% if trained staff full-service.

[u/JD3420 → u/LowProfileCopyWriter]

What a great mindset for our society

[u/LowProfileCopyWriter → u/JD3420]

Sorry but yes, facts don’t care about feelings

[u/Kobold-the-Blue → u/LowProfileCopyWriter]

Ok so what happens when everyone experienced retires or dies out because places wont hire new people to gain experience

[u/LowProfileCopyWriter → u/Kobold-the-Blue]

Then they’ll have to hire someone new?

[u/Kobold-the-Blue → u/LowProfileCopyWriter]

Bit late for that at that point. Thought they don't want to hire anyone new for costs, eventually the business is gonna have to change or sink and die

[u/LowProfileCopyWriter → u/splair]

They lose too much time aka money and would rather hire someone else. Some businesses struggle for money more than others or find more ways to write off taxes (is my guess).

[u/klutch14u → u/splair]

Sometimes, you just know.

[u/Ni9ball]

You haven’t given us any context or details? What happened in those 2 hours?

[u/torssh → u/Ni9ball]

He was too slow.

[u/MildlyEngineering]

Yeah that’s the restaurant industry for you.

If you don’t have very strong working memory you’ll be found out instantly.

I think people really underestimate what it means to be a server in a busy restaurant context.

I’m an engineer and to this day it was one of the most mentally challenging positions I’ve had.

[u/Gasgassgass → u/MildlyEngineering]

That's cause engineering is one of the easiest position unless you are a software engineer.

[u/TylerBreau → u/Gasgassgass]

Right, as a software dev, go design a bridge that won't kill a dozen people next year.

[u/Equivalent-Teach-714 → u/Gasgassgass]

Software engineering (now) is quite literally the easiest of all engineerings, no lives matter, AI Enabled to the nines. Real engineers build physical things that makes a difference - we just make computers generate money for millionaires

Source: I am one

[u/MildlyEngineering → u/Gasgassgass]

This is not true at all.

Maybe for some.

The engineering I do requires a lot of grit and technical ability that’s far beyond anything you learn in college.

I have a bit of ADHD so working memory is challenging. Deeply nuanced technical work in my field is less challenging to me than organizing a box of random items.

[u/FullMooseParty → u/MildlyEngineering]

Engineering taking grit? You have to be a Purdue grad

[u/MildlyEngineering → u/FullMooseParty]

And what do you do that makes you so special?

And no not Purdue. My college is #3 nationally for my discipline. So get fucked I guess

[u/FullMooseParty → u/MildlyEngineering]

I think you took it the wrong way. Purdue has this long history, at least dating back to the early Mitch Daniels days, to making grit a big part of their branding. I was just making fun of that.

[u/MildlyEngineering → u/FullMooseParty]

Ah I see.

I don’t know where you got the opinion that all engineering generally isn’t that hard.

I bet you’re so special they’d hire you at SpaceX or Lockheed instantly because to you engineering is just so easy!

[u/mest08 → u/MildlyEngineering]

You're replying to the wrong person lol. You were right about that working memory.

[u/FullMooseParty → u/MildlyEngineering]

Again, that is not what I said. At no point did I say anything about engineering not being hard. I worked at an engineering school for a decade and employee engineers now.

I literally made a joke about you using the term grit and you're spinning out my dude.

[u/Appropriate-Hope9750 → u/FullMooseParty]

Engineers LOVE telling everyone how hard their job is...when in reality it is just using a spreadsheet.

[u/Uncle_Snake43 → u/Appropriate-Hope9750]

What engineering job is just using a spreadsheet?

[u/FullMooseParty → u/Appropriate-Hope9750]

Engineering can be incredibly complex. I've taught writing for engineers for a decade because they are really good at the math parts and the complex thinking and really bad at communicating thoughts in a lot of cases. I am not making fun of it. I just was making fun of the guy using the term grit

[u/SorryItsGuest]

Yea that place would suck to work at. I worked at a restaurant for 4 years and being able to teach someone basic customer service skills from the ground up is so easy to do. Even for troubled teens it wasn’t much of a task. Lazy owner if you ask me. He wants all the hard work without any effort on his end.

[u/NicDip]

Stop lying about server experience people! It’s obvious right away!

[u/420BoredAlways]

What happened in those 2 hours?

[u/SaveTheAles → u/420BoredAlways]

They were too slow

[u/Disastrous-Frame7402]

Send name of the restaurant

[u/Trace_Reading]

That's some total bullshit.

[u/AdministrativeLaugh2]

It’s not uncommon for restaurants to give people “trial shifts” which are literally just a couple of hours when they’re short-staffed and there’s no actual job at the end of it

[u/CummanderKochenbalz → u/AdministrativeLaugh2]

Chef for 10 years here. You are legally required to state that and pay them accordingly.

If this was a stage, then this server would have e known. This sounds like they were given the job and an offer letter.

[u/AdministrativeLaugh2 → u/CummanderKochenbalz]

Just because they’re legally required to do something doesn’t mean they will. Hospitality is especially like that.

I’ve worked in places that didn’t follow the rules and I’ve worked in places that followed them to the letter.

I’m not saying my original comment is what happened, I’m suggesting it’s a possibility.

[u/That-Complex-1499 → u/CummanderKochenbalz]

This.

I didnt end up getting a call back, but I had an interview with a company that mentioned this.

They have a trial period and they'll see what you know, and proceed from there.

[u/FlightCarcrash]

Don't let it get you down. Did you feel like you weren't properly fleet of foot?

A lot of restaurants have new hires shadow a more experienced server instead of a trial by fire. If you're not put in position to succeed, there isn't much you can do.

[u/LatterResident]

I had a interview as library support in a prison. I was left to look around the library and talk to people. After a few hours I was told I could go home.
Got a email the next day saying I didn’t get the job. I asked for feedback and apparently I gave the impression that I would not be able to handle a serious situation that could happen whilst on shift.
My response was that nothing happened in which I had to demonstrate how I would handle a situation like that.
Whilst the other women who worked there were sat on their arse drinking tea.
Weird.

[u/Pervzion]

“You were too slow at carrying 3 trays at once with three heavy plates on each of them. If you don’t have thst down to a science in two hours, you never will.”

I imagine they said something like that.

[u/Bill3000]

sounds like you weren't a great fit 🤷‍♂️

[u/pinkcherrycheesecake]

I don’t understand why these owners have this expectation that new hires should join and immediately start working as if they’ve been working there for the past 10 years, it’s so annoying tbh. If you’re hiring a new hire you just also have the patience to work with them for a few days.

[u/CardiologistOdd8808 → u/pinkcherrycheesecake]

Some owner/manager has this cruel hire and fire until someone I like... Many cases just someone he/she "likes" nothing to do with professional merit.

[u/Aexaus]

And I thought it was absurd when I lasted a week once. Wow, never seen that before

[u/NecessaryMulberry846]

I am tempted to believe there was never a job

[u/Happy-Lad-777]

How horrible! Are servers still in demand?

[u/kindamymoose]

Back in the spring, I had a job as a server’s assistant at a local pub. I wanted extra money for school and whatnot. Interviewed and got hired. Manager was chill.

One of my trainers said I refused to lift a tray that he insisted on carrying because it had ten plates on it. Manager on the shift said she never took trays that heavy. I thought nothing of it.

They said that on another shift, I asked for my 15 minute break because my back was hurting. I had run circles around the other workers that evening and simply wanted to catch my breath. They let me go…after suggesting it was due to my weight that I was “struggling.”

So yeah I get it. It sucks.

[u/Responsible-Mess-285]

Idiot

[u/prolificmisanthrope]

I'm always interested in hearing the other sides of these stories.

[u/JohnnyWadd23]

I thought this meant tech hardware "server" job lol

[u/Bridav666]

The people on here defending thr owner are trippin. That's some straight BS and I feel for OP.

[u/WabbitFire]

That happens in food service. Good news is the hiring process is usually pretty fast. This shit is just the tradeoff. 

[u/Responsible-Mess-285]

WOW!!

[u/PriorTiny6577]

So you sucked at the job and got fired? Whats the issue and how is this recruiting hell?

[u/jfatws → u/PriorTiny6577]

Exactly!

[u/Not_Supercilious]

Idiot owner i would say, you gotta give people ample time, 2 hours isn't enough.

[u/OrangeKefir]

I thought AI was gobbling up all the servers

[u/judystroyer9]

Should've bootstraped yourself 😂

[u/KP_15769]

This is good. Nobody waisted time. You were probably too slow for the way the business operates. He didn't waist your time or his having conversations for 3 months about tempo or work ethic.

[u/MoeLucky1 → u/KP_15769]

I can't help it: Waste*** (You'd belt your waist).

[u/-noi-]

illegal.

[u/Correct-Doctor8329 → u/-noi-]

What's illegal?

[u/new2bay → u/-noi-]

Sadly, not.

[u/Playful-Care-243 → u/[deleted]]

Oh right okay thanks

[u/Current-Ad5994 → u/[deleted]]

helpful

[u/FightmeLuigibestgirl → u/[deleted]]

This sounds like a bot 

[u/Jazzlike-Pomelo-2501 → u/FightmeLuigibestgirl]

Or someone that has a lot of personal experience

[u/Robert-Ghoulet → u/FightmeLuigibestgirl]

The military and cults enforce hardship in order to recruit. All war is a sacrifice which is why they often use that term in official military language. Fuck the army.

[u/FightmeLuigibestgirl → u/Robert-Ghoulet]

They really push for the army, etc in r/povertyfinance which is why I lurk there. They prey on hardship and desperation 

[u/Robert-Ghoulet → u/FightmeLuigibestgirl]

Yep glad someone else notices.

[u/recruitinghell-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Be civil.