Olive Backyard is thought for its limitless soup, salad, and breadsticks deal — however in response to one former supervisor, taking time without work must be extraordinarily restricted.
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“Any more, should you name off, you would possibly as properly exit and search for one other job,” the supervisor wrote in a memo obtained by native information outlet KCTV.
The now-former supervisor labored at an Olive Backyard location in Overland Park, which is near Kansas Metropolis.
“We’re not tolerating ANY excuse for calling off. Should you’re sick, it’s essential come show it to us. In case your canine died, it’s essential carry him in and show it to us. If it is a ‘household emergency’ and you may’t say, too dangerous. Go work someplace else,” the supervisor wrote.
The memo went on to say the supervisor additionally didn’t need to be on the restaurant late at evening on Fridays or Saturdays however is “devoted to being right here. As do you have to. No extra excuses or complaints.”
The supervisor was fired, the outlet added.
“We try to supply a caring and respectful work setting for our workforce members. This message shouldn’t be aligned with our firm’s values. We are able to affirm we’ve got parted methods with this supervisor,” a spokesperson for Olive Backyard instructed Entrepreneur by way of e-mail.
The Kansas-area debacle comes as staff face an unsure labor market. Whereas many corporations are gearing up for a recession and have carried out hiring freezes, the economic system additionally added 260,000 jobs in October, which exceeded expectations and defied some financial anxieties.
On the identical time, there have been layoffs at main corporations from Twitter to Morgan Stanley to Amazon and as NBC famous, largely in white-collar industries. Eating places, alternatively, confronted an unlimited labor scarcity in the course of the pandemic that’s reportedly nonetheless ongoing.
There have been over 10 million reported open jobs in October, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The now-fired supervisor additionally recounted an anecdote the place she claimed she had been in a automobile accident and nonetheless made it to work.
“Are you aware in my 11.5 years at Darden what number of days I referred to as off? Zero. I got here in sick. I received in a wreck actually on my to work one time, airbags went off and my automobile was totaled, however you already know what, I made it to work, ON TIME!”
(Darden is the guardian firm of Olive Backyard, in addition to others together with LongHorn Steakhouse.)
When referred to as, somebody on the cellphone on the Overland Park retailer declined to remark.
Learn the entire memo obtained by KCTV.
Our name offs are occurring at a staggering charge. Any more, should you name off, you would possibly as properly exit and search for one other job. We’re not tolerating ANY excuse for calling off. Should you’re sick, it’s essential come show it to us. In case your canine died, it’s essential carry him in and show it to us. If its a “household emergency” and you may’t say, too dangerous. Go work someplace else. Should you solely need morning shifts, too dangerous go work at a financial institution. If anybody from right here on out calls out greater than ONCE within the subsequent 30 days you’ll not have a job. Are you aware in my 11.5 years at Darden what number of days I referred to as off? Zero. I got here in sick. I received in a wreck actually on my to work one time, airbags went off and my automobile was totaled, however you already know what, I made it to work, ON TIME! There are not any extra excuses. Us, collectively as a administration workforce have had sufficient. Should you do not need to work right here, do not. It is so simple as that. Should you’re right here and need to work, then work. No extra complaigning [sic] about not being lower or not having the ability to depart early. You are within the restaurant enterprise. Do you assume I need to be right here till midnight on Friday and Saturday? No. I might a lot relatively be at house with my husband and canine, going to the flicks or seeing household. However I do not, I am devoted to being right here. As do you have to. No extra excuses or complaints.
I hope you select to proceed to work right here and I believe we (administration) make it as straightforward as we are able to on ya’ll. Thanks on your time and thanks to those that are available in each day on time and work exhausting. I want there have been extra such as you.
