Some are just unlucky. One manager I knew happened to smoke weed, privately and discreetly, with it never interfering with her job. One server who happened to have a personal vendetta against this woman wrote an anonymous letter to the corporate office detailing her smoking habits. She was asked to take a random drug test which she failed and was consequently fired.
Then some people are just stupid, like Megan, who chose to drink, and smoke weed and opium before she would come to work. Needless to say, she was found out fairly quickly and fired even quicker.
Then other people seem to have had their brains sucked clean out of their ears. As it turns out, marijuana is one of the most popular drugs around restaurant staff, considering the high stress environment we're subjected to every day. One of the managers at a restaurant in Framingham would sell it to her servers right on restaurant property. This same manager also happened to be sleeping with her boss, the general manager.
Perhaps she felt safe because of this, but she failed to take into account the possible appearance of the regional manager who lately has been frequenting the restaurant to check up on their dwindling sales.
She was caught. She was fired. Half her staff that she was selling to were also fired. The general manager was demoted.
It was a fiasco and a major taboo within the restaurant's company and came as a shock. People in the business tend to be more careful, especially those working within corporate companies with strict anti-drug policies. The fact that this has reached the ears of so many restaurants within a 30 mile radius has put everyone on edge. Those who enjoy their recreational drug use are concerned about the repercussions and possibilities of a crack down on the usually ignored policies.
It's always a select few that ruins things for everyone else.
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