Peter Principle in full force, apathetic management, tips stolen from staff - Anonymous employee The Rustic Employee Review

1.0
Jun 26, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Cons are so bad the pros don't matter

Cons

Read the title. Money was stolen from servers and swept under the rug. Bar manager quit mid shift upon being accused by staff, GM was fired day or two later. But no funny business right? To upper management: they stole our money and you know it. Management staff was mostly good servers who got promoted, so they had no idea how to manage, training obviously severely lacking. Management as a whole was routinely drunk on shift, and a few liked doing coke in the bathroom. Treat employees like cattle, floggings will continue until morale improves is their idea of motivation. President is a tool who came up from Pappas and is stuck in old school ways to manage people. He is the king of floggings will continue until morale improves. He was well known at Pappas for chewing out GMs and DMs for not meeting numbers. Also he got fired from his last job for providing alcohol to somebody who was under 21, how did he get installed in such a large company that supposedly cares about employees as individuals? Hypocritical joke having him as president. Upper management raking in cash, store level managers steal server tips and the owner's booze, and hourly staff gets screwed in the end. DO NOT WORK FOR THE RUSTIC OR ANY FREE RANGE CONCEPT STORE.

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