19. First Employee
I worked as a manager in an upscale seafood restaurant a few years ago.
We had recently hired a few more wait staff (4 staff), to cope with the customer demand as summer started.
Excited to train new staff for the first time, three of them turned up on time and got started with their buddy staff. Guy number 4 turned up over an hour late, stunk of alcohol and BO, and had dark yellow pit stains on his “apparently new” white uniform shirt.
I fired him within 10 minutes. He then proceeded to knock over chairs and pull tablecloths off tables, so security was called.
The first person I ever fired. I felt bad and then went out for a smoke before getting back to work. Another reason why I left the hospitality industry. Staff turnover is too high, and it is too easy to burn out.