Grr
I'm sitting in Home Brew just about ready to scream. The Korean owner has decided that he doesn't like working with Americans. He's much more comfortable working with Koreans. Whatever. He's here so often that for two years no one knew he existed. But he's the boss, right?
A month ago he promoted Danielle to manager. She's been working here longer than he's owned the place. She trained everyone else who has worked here in the last five years. And in one month she managed to stabilize a foundering business and post a profit. This place has never been known to be profitable. Of course, it's hard to say, since the two previous Korean managers seem to have misplaced all their records.
I got here tonight to find Danielle announcing she'd been demoted again in favor of a, you guessed it, Korean guy. One who knows nothing about working in a coffee shop, by the way. She has to train him, knowing he's her replacement. Fun, fun. She quit.
But there's more. Oh, yes. The owner wants Koreans. You're not going to believe this. He's planning to let all the non-Koreans go and completely restaff the place with Koreans. He told Danielle this. Danielle is now telling the rest of the staff to look for jobs, because their days here are numbered.
He doesn't get it. He's going to lose a heap of regular customers, because there is a loyalty to this staff. I have no idea how it happened, but that's the way it is. He's going to lose a heap of customers because he's consistently making bad business choices. He's going to drive himself out of business. One can only hope.
Meanwhile, Danielle is in law school. If you think this sounds like a law suit waiting to happen, you'd be right. You can't just fire your entire staff simply because they don't look like you. If he wanted it that way, he could have done so when he bought it, or replaced people with Koreans as they quit for whatever reason, and then it would have been perfectly legal. Perhaps a little wrong still, but legal.
So I need to find a new place for free internet. I'll miss this place, but once my friends are fired for being not Korean, I can't justify spending a cent here.
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A month ago he promoted Danielle to manager. She's been working here longer than he's owned the place. She trained everyone else who has worked here in the last five years. And in one month she managed to stabilize a foundering business and post a profit. This place has never been known to be profitable. Of course, it's hard to say, since the two previous Korean managers seem to have misplaced all their records.
I got here tonight to find Danielle announcing she'd been demoted again in favor of a, you guessed it, Korean guy. One who knows nothing about working in a coffee shop, by the way. She has to train him, knowing he's her replacement. Fun, fun. She quit.
But there's more. Oh, yes. The owner wants Koreans. You're not going to believe this. He's planning to let all the non-Koreans go and completely restaff the place with Koreans. He told Danielle this. Danielle is now telling the rest of the staff to look for jobs, because their days here are numbered.
He doesn't get it. He's going to lose a heap of regular customers, because there is a loyalty to this staff. I have no idea how it happened, but that's the way it is. He's going to lose a heap of customers because he's consistently making bad business choices. He's going to drive himself out of business. One can only hope.
Meanwhile, Danielle is in law school. If you think this sounds like a law suit waiting to happen, you'd be right. You can't just fire your entire staff simply because they don't look like you. If he wanted it that way, he could have done so when he bought it, or replaced people with Koreans as they quit for whatever reason, and then it would have been perfectly legal. Perhaps a little wrong still, but legal.
So I need to find a new place for free internet. I'll miss this place, but once my friends are fired for being not Korean, I can't justify spending a cent here.
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posted by Sam Gamgee at
7:46 PM
3 Comments:
Or you could look into becoming Korean. Though I suspect that process is even more complicated than becoming Orthodox.
:-D
I'm gonna have to read this one more carefully when I am not late for work.
Well, that sucks bigwan. It does however make a bit of sense seeing things that I have here.
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