Next to Godliness
Not current job but at my last job at a store/cafe, an unspoken rule, as in me and my manager were never told this by our boss, was that we were not allowed to let a health inspector see anything that they come to inspect while still getting a good grade.
We followed health and safety laws but our bosses didn’t (we were one of the smaller stores/cafes in this chain of 20+ stores and cafes).
The health inspector must have realised that it was the companies fault for all the health and safety breaches because we (the staff) were given near full marks on the staffs health and safety responsibilities but the boss’s responsibilities was a different story.
No fly killer in store (despite them being attracted by our bakery part and us having a fly killer out back for over a month but no one was ever sent to install it), no mouse/rat traps, only one sink (law requires 2, one for hands and one for dishes), no hot water,
The counter were we put coffee down wasn’t nailed down and we actually had a customer attempt to sue over a spilt coffee, some of our bakery was expired but we were made to put it out because according to our companies Food manager, “they looked ok so they must be ok.” The list goes on.
Our manager ended up showing the health inspector months of emails and texts and watsapp messages informing the bosses of these health and safety breaches and asking them to be fixed, all of which were promptly ignored.
Later that day our boss calls and screams over the phone at my manager, tells him that its all our fault and its our job to make sure the health inspector never finds out about all that.
Over the next week she comes in every single day where she just watches us work from the office on the security cameras and gives out at us for every little thing and makes a massive deal over everything,
Like for example, I had a mini-sneezing fit one of those days and was yelled at, in front of customers because I was going to “infect everyone and all our food. “
Glad to be out of that hellhole, last I heard a few of the stores she manages (4-5 store managers quit all in one week while she was on holidays. so she took over managing those stores) are failing with massive sales drops and mass employee quitting ever since she took over them.
Hope to God she loses her job. Story credit: Reddit / christopher1393