This Restaurant Manager Is Making Waves Across the Internet For Firing His Employees... For Refusing To Pay For Meals They Don’t Even Eat!

Welcome to America, where you can sometimes end up paying your employer to work.

Elana

• Published in Funny
• January 24, 2019

Working in a restaurant in the United States can be an infuriating experience. Servers depend almost exclusively on tips to pay their bills. The hours are long. And too often your boss sucks. Such was the case for the employees of one of the Golden Corral restaurants in Ohio.

Golden Corral is an enormous buffet that is widely popular in the Midwest. You can get all sorts of cuisine there and eat until your pants rip for one, low price. Their popularity, however, has not stopped them from controversy. For an employee on Imgur sharing his story under the username theweby, things took a turn from annoying but acceptable to "what the actual f*ck" very quickly when the owner and manager, Gary, instituted the most ridiculous employee meal policy you'll ever hear of.

An employee meal policy is nothing unusual for the restaurant industry. Usually it's a generous offer that gives hard-working employees the opportunity to eat at a significantly discounted cost. Gary's meal policy was that every employee must pay $4 for a meal on each work day. At first glance, this sounds perfectly reasonable since the average customer will likely pay three times that cost. Unfortunately, that's not where the policy ends. According to theweby, Gary doesn't care whether you actually eat food on your work days or not! He wants you to pay the $4 no matter what!

Theweby wrote:

Okay folks, this is complete bullcrap. Golden Corral last week, per the manager / owner Gary that all employees have to pay $ 4.00 per day for meals. Whether you eat there or not, regardless if you are fasting for religious beliefs, regardless if you eat elsewhere, or you are not hungry that day. Golden Corral will take $ 4.00 out of your paycheck for every day you work. As some servers sometimes do not get a pay check because of tips, they still have to pay $ 4.00 day. They do not care, they will take $ 4.00/ out of your pay check without your permission Gary is firing people for refusing to pay this. Let's make them famous, and not eat there anymore.

Um, say what now?

Theweby also said:

The manager/owner has retracted the letter for revisement. All other info is unknown at this time. I have messaged GC on multiple platforms with no response back.. This man needs to get out of the city.. This isn't the first time he has tried something like this

Other Imgur users were literally mind-blown by Gary's ridculous policy and were quick to chime in.

From someone who would know, here's some solid advice.

That's not how this is supposed to work, at all.

This takes an action plan to resolve!

Outrage ensued.

People outside of the US reasonably do not understand the tipping system.

A plot hole? Yes.

A revenge plot.

This theory adds up.

Well, um, I'm not sure what else to say but I definitely would not want to work at that Golden Corral. Would you?

Elana