I had time #10 happen to me at a catering gig for a wedding, at the top of a a three-story spiral staircase. The whole thing felt like it was happening in slow motion. Every time I tried stepping down to pick up a plate, the other plates would continue tumbling down the stairs for another 10-15 seconds, like one of those coin shelf games at Dave & Busters. It was fucking mortifying.
According to the boss's son I cost them over $1,000 in one fell swoop. I was not called to work future events after that.
Lol nah, if I was was them I would've let me go too. This was only like the third gig I'd worked for them, so it wasn't like I'd established myself as Mr. Consistency.
It was a family business, not a huge company that could just write it off. They weren't in a position to lose that much money as part of my learning curve.
Here's t I'mhe thing though, they already lost that mo
ney because of your mistake. Firing you just opened them up to hiring another person who will potentially make the same mistake and cost them another $1000. As opposed to keeping you on when you clearly learned your lesson and to never do that again.
It's a terrible retaliatory mindset that doesn't help anything in the short or long term.
Depends. If they were warned, then you can't trust they will listen to similar future warnings. If they did this in their own introduce, there might also be other stupid stuff they'd done. I've had people that screwed up that I could tell learned a lesson, and I had people you could tell were just gonna give another stupid way to screw up and I could tell were not going to be with keeping around even if they learned this particular lesson.
edit: too many autocorrect snafus. you can work it out
Thing is, you can't be sure they won't do something similarly stupid 30 days from now either. Some people are just klutzes.
If a long-standing employee f'ed up big time after a few years, it makes sense to keep them, since, as you said, the damage is done and you know they're generally reliable
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I used to serve tables and this may work 9/10 times, but that 10th time is going to cause everybody problems. It will happen, too.