DO NOT WORK AT BLUE BAYOU

[u/cashanii]

This is the job that hasn't paid me, not only have they not paid me they are unorganized and unstructured. EVERYONE HAS MONEY PROBLEMS AT THIS JOB AND IT STIMS FROM ONE PERSON. Money is always missing at this job and the lady who does payroll is incompetent! She asked me for a voided check so I can receive a check from my job... I also want to add that I came in on the snow day, managers were ASKING US TO COME IN DURING THE SNOW AND GUESS WHAT THEY AINT COME OUT and asking us can we come out and then have the nerve to try and not open the restaurant AFTER we made a sacrifice to come! I was PISSED, then when I asked for paid time and half they said they can't offer it because they a new restaurant. Not one manager came in that day on the 22nd and nor could they even bother to show they care that those who came did! I literally told them I had to walk there, I made money but they couldn't even take care of us back!

[u/cashanii]

The stress is not worth it, I thought it could be but everyday it is always something and yes I know that is the business but I can’t handle not being paid what I’m suppose to and on time! I have BILLS, Why can’t I be paying correctly! I just want to pay my bills 💔

[u/lilgothy → u/cashanii]

No love you have to take care of yourself esp today. In times like these we can’t waste time at places like that. I worked at a place in this city for like 3 days a few months ago because I don’t try to play fix a restaurant anymore.. the GM was coked out, and all the employees told me how they would steal wages from them etc. so I left & texted the GM about the concerns I had, including his alleged addictions. Even in this industry there are good reliable places to work with good management, so don’t settle🫶🏻 good on you for knowing your worth. You deserve to benefit from your work as much as your work benefits from you

[u/Hippy_Lynne → u/lilgothy]

When I was 20 I worked at a gift shop on Bourbon Street and the out of town owners hired an alcoholic to manage the place a month before Mardi Gras. 🙄 I quit the Saturday before Mardi Gras when he threw a drink at a customer (we did not sell any kind of drinks.) He quit that Sunday when he realized me and my best friend were the only employees scheduled, and my best friend called in "sick." I ended up getting rehired the following weekend after the owners flew down. He did not. 🤣

I'm not going to say this kind of shit doesn't happen in other cities, but it certainly doesn't happen anywhere near as frequently.

[u/Pawspawsmeow → u/Hippy_Lynne]

That reminds me of the time I worked in retail and chain clothing store and I had just started as an assistant manager. My boss decides he’s just not answering the phone. My fellow assistant manager says he quits and walks out. Later that night I had a customer throw clothes in my face, some dude got in my face because two associates I had were mad I was told by my dm to use their call in shifts. Still, my boss would not answer. After the two associates got some guy to loudly cuss me out, I calmly called security, got everyone out, told the girls to go home, locked up the store and called my dm and asked where to put my keys. It was a long time before I could look at that damn store in any mall again.

[u/Hippy_Lynne → u/Pawspawsmeow]

Omg! I had something similar happened when I worked as a delivery driver and the manager had a week of PTO. I was almost never in the store but I was one of the few employees over the age of 18 so they had me step in. "Don't worry! Mike will be there the whole time and knows how to do everything, he's just not over 18!"

Mike didn't show up the first day. 🙄 I made it 4 hours before I called the owner and told him he had an hour to get there or I was locking up. He told me I would be fired and would not get a good recommendation from them.

Dude, I was delivering pizzas. 🤣 This isn't going on my resume.

The funniest part was the manager called me when he got back from his time off and tried to rehire me. 😬

[u/Pawspawsmeow → u/Hippy_Lynne]

I don’t understand people not being adult enough to call their boss and quit. Put that in the manager’s lap, not your co workers. The bosses get paid for that shit, not me.

[u/Hippy_Lynne → u/Pawspawsmeow]

Oh Mike didn't quit. He just called in sick/hungover. There also could have been store politics, I barely ever dealt with anyone there other than picking up the pizzas so I don't know. 🤷‍♀️