Imagine working at a restaurant with a bunch of friends. It sounds like a lot of fun!

What doesn’t sound like fun is having a nightmare manager who is overly strict about the dress code.

In this story, two friends work as hostesses at a restaurant, and they love their job except for their horrible manager.

Let’s see what happens when the manager doesn’t like how their hair looks.

Fired for hair – restaurant had to close down

When I was in high school, I got a part time job as a hostess at an Italian restaurant with a friend of mine.

The restaurant was only open 5 days a week for dinner.

The restaurant was fairly new but was already filling every table every night because the food was amazing.

In addition to my friend and I being the only two hostesses, the bus boys were friends, half of the waiters were friends and the dishwasher was a friend.

The manager sounds really annoying.

The owners son was the floor manager and with the success of the restaurant started to implement new changes.

Everyone must look presentable and in uniform at all times. No dirty uniforms. Even for the bus boy.

He was rather rude to all employees and would hover and take over our jobs right in front of customer apologizing for our inability to do our jobs correctly.

However, everyone there was fantastic at their jobs. The dish washer even found creative ways to stay clean and tidy.

The manager complained about their hair.

The straw broke one night when my friend and I were both working the hostess stand on a packed Saturday night.

The manager walked up to us and declared our hair was not compliant with dress code.

Both of us had our hair pulled back in the requisite buns. However, we both had a few stray wisps. You know, those tiny little new hairs around your face.

Never mind that is was August and it was hot and we were all working as a team like crazy to make sure the night ran smoothly sharing duties such as bussing tables and running foot and drinks (underage).

The manager made a big mistake.

He loudly fired both of us on the spot in front of the entire restaurant and front staff.

He then said we were required to continue to work for two weeks and train our replacements.

I asked, are we fired?

He said yes.

And I said firing means every don’t work for you anymore.

I love what their friends did!

We walked out, punched our cards and went to change out of our uniforms.

When we got out of the dressing room, there was a line of people waiting to change including the bus boys, half the wait staff, and the dishwasher.

All were so mad about what had happened that they quit on the spot.

No one liked the job anyway.

This really backfired for the manager.

We all went to iHop to eat and we’re soon joined by the rest of the wait staff and the line cooks. So all that was left of the entire restaurant staff was the bartender, the owner/cook and the manager.

I later heard that the owner just decided to shut down the restaurant because the only reason he started it was to provide his son a legacy from the family businesses in Italy and he decided his son couldn’t handle it.

Wow! Getting fired over a few stray hairs seems ridiculous. I love that the other employees stood by them.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

I hope it worked out well for everyone too.

This is true!

The manager REALLY messed up.

This person shares a similar experience.

A bad manager can destroy a good business.

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