Dustin_m
Member
I'm going to try to make this brief and will give more detailed info if needed.
I was fired yesterday from my job as a server at IHOP. A manager took the tips from two tables of mine because he said he provided service to them. When I let him know that was in violation of the labor code, specifically section 351, he got angry. I asked to speak to the district manager, who is the next one above him, to which he said no. He refused to give me any contact info to someone who was above him who could solve this, and went so far as to dare me to file a complaint against him, that no one would listen. I told him that I needed to go find the info myself and contact the Dept of Idustrial Relations about this, so I left to do this. I was subsequently fired by the district manager later in the day for "abandoning my job." When I explained to her that I had been refused any contact info for anyone who could help me with this, she still backed up the manager about taking the tips, saying that it was part of their policy to take tables and they were entitled to the tips, and still said that I had lost my job. I made it clear to her, jsut as I had to my manager during the incident, that I was leaving to contact DIR about this, not quitting my job.
This guy has had a pattern of this stuff, as in the past he has punished me for having to call in sick one day that I had the flu, after which he took me off the schedule and told me it was because it was company policy that servers can't be calling in (he even said that it was in the employee handbook, which I didn't have). Another thing he has done is deny me being able to take a 10 minute break one day when there was one table in the restaurant, who had their check and were completely finished. I told him that I needed to sit down for a minute, but was told that I should know that the restaurant industry doesn't work like that, and I couldn't take a break.
So far, I've tried to contact the CEO and others higher up, with no response. I've called the corporate phone number, they supposedly wrote down the issue and forwarded it to the dept that handles the franchises, but haven't heard anything. I've filed for unemployment, and plan on contacting DIR tomorrow. Is there any other course of action I should take?
Yea this job sucked ass, I know. I moved away from San Diego, where I had a stable drafting/design job, up to Central Cali where there are absolutely NO jobs, so I had to settle for this.
If I get no help from somewhere, I'm gonna end up in front of the restaurant with a big ass sign telling people to go elsewhere, but I'm giving the company a chance to right their wrong
I was fired yesterday from my job as a server at IHOP. A manager took the tips from two tables of mine because he said he provided service to them. When I let him know that was in violation of the labor code, specifically section 351, he got angry. I asked to speak to the district manager, who is the next one above him, to which he said no. He refused to give me any contact info to someone who was above him who could solve this, and went so far as to dare me to file a complaint against him, that no one would listen. I told him that I needed to go find the info myself and contact the Dept of Idustrial Relations about this, so I left to do this. I was subsequently fired by the district manager later in the day for "abandoning my job." When I explained to her that I had been refused any contact info for anyone who could help me with this, she still backed up the manager about taking the tips, saying that it was part of their policy to take tables and they were entitled to the tips, and still said that I had lost my job. I made it clear to her, jsut as I had to my manager during the incident, that I was leaving to contact DIR about this, not quitting my job.
This guy has had a pattern of this stuff, as in the past he has punished me for having to call in sick one day that I had the flu, after which he took me off the schedule and told me it was because it was company policy that servers can't be calling in (he even said that it was in the employee handbook, which I didn't have). Another thing he has done is deny me being able to take a 10 minute break one day when there was one table in the restaurant, who had their check and were completely finished. I told him that I needed to sit down for a minute, but was told that I should know that the restaurant industry doesn't work like that, and I couldn't take a break.
So far, I've tried to contact the CEO and others higher up, with no response. I've called the corporate phone number, they supposedly wrote down the issue and forwarded it to the dept that handles the franchises, but haven't heard anything. I've filed for unemployment, and plan on contacting DIR tomorrow. Is there any other course of action I should take?
Yea this job sucked ass, I know. I moved away from San Diego, where I had a stable drafting/design job, up to Central Cali where there are absolutely NO jobs, so I had to settle for this.
If I get no help from somewhere, I'm gonna end up in front of the restaurant with a big ass sign telling people to go elsewhere, but I'm giving the company a chance to right their wrong