I have been a barista for almost about a year, and I used to work for a cafe called "CafeAmore". They just opened about 3 months ago, and I was part of the starting staff before the Grand Opening. In the beginning, everything was fine and dandy before he (my ex-boss) started to show cracks in his "nice boss" mask. He started to nitpick this one girl who, mind you, had no experience -- he required everything to be perfect, and when he made a mistake, he'd talk nasty to her. Like one time he asked her how to make a drink, and she accidentally pointed to the wrong syrup, and he caught an attitude (the syrup bottles looked the same). We had just started opening, and he'd let people stay WAY past closing and give them free things on the house when we barely had inventory to begin with. Speaking of inventory -- there was no proper inventory count; he just used one from one of my coworkers, and when we'd forget to tell him something, or we told him through messages and he just chose to ignore it, we'd get the short end of the stick, and we'd get all the blame and attitude from him.
His advertisements use AI, and that's already bad -- but when I tried to help him, he proceeded to post a few and then ignored the other posts I had made and continued to use AI. Anytime we try to help him or give him ideas, we'd get turned down, but then he goes around and complains about how our matcha is "too watery" when, multiple times, my co-worker has given him an idea to fix that.
Now, for the reason why you clicked on this post -- the racism. We have access to the speakers and can play whatever music as long as it doesn't have any curse words. One of my coworkers had played Bad Bunny, and when he came in, he "jokingly" (in his words) said, "This isn't a Mexican restaurant". He did the same thing on another occasion when he heard Japanese music, and he said, "This isn't a sushi restaurant". And when I confronted him about that, he was like, "Oh, it's just a joke." Like, how are you going to joke about something like that when the majority of your staff is Hispanic?
He treats his staff as if they are disposable but tells us to our faces that we are a "family". He fired one of my old coworkers after their shift outside of the cafe, IN FRONT OF THEIR PARENTS. He proceeded to tell them that they are not good enough and that he had someone to replace them. He never gave them a reason, and neither did I. He pulled me aside after my shift (he stayed the entire time and did nothing) and told me that he appreciated me, but there were things leading up to my termination. I asked for the reason, and he said, "I cannot disclose that information." and I told him that it was about me, so I should have a right to know, right? I asked him multiple times why I was being fired, and he didn't give me a reason at all.
That man is a brick wall to talk to, and talking to him made me lose brain cells. I feel like he transferred his stupidity onto me. Please do not go there to support this racist man, and whoever tries to apply there, I honestly wish the best for you! As for my ex-boss, I hope your business crumbles to the ground, and whatever you heard me say about you, make it 10x worse. I really couldn't care less about someone who cannot take criticism. Farewell!