Entitled Regulars Boycotted Her Restaurant After Her Sister-in-Law Rejected Their Advances—So She Considered Firing Her to Save Revenue
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When you’ve spent years building a business, watching it struggle can make you consider decisions you never thought you’d have to make.
One woman knows that feeling after spending 15 years running the restaurant she started with her late mother.
When she hired her sister-in-law, things went well at first. She was great at her job and quickly became popular with the regular customers.
But then some of those customers started asking her out, and when she turned them down, they stopped coming back.
Now, with her income dropping, she’s considering firing her sister-in-law, but her husband says she’d be punishing her for something that isn’t her fault.
Read on to see what you think she should do.
WIBTAH if I fired my SIL because I’m losing customers because of her?
I have my small bar/restaurant in a finance district. I started this bar with my mother, and I have had it for 15 years. When I was 20, I knew I wasn’t good at school, so I found this location in a newly developed finance district, and my mom financed it.
I had my best years working with Mom until she passed during COVID. This restaurant is my pride and joy and my connection to my mom.
90% of my customers are well-off, middle-aged men who have been customers for years. I hired my SIL (35F), who is my husband’s sister.
At first, the customers seemed to really like her.
Apparently, she is very conventionally attractive, and I will be honest that she is great at her job too. She made improvements and helped me redecorate, and at first, everybody appreciated her.
On her days off, many of the customers ask about her, and some seem to be disappointed she wasn’t working that day.
Now I have started losing customers who have been coming here for years. Customers who ask her out and she rejects.
Now, she’s losing customer left and right.
I found that out when I saw one of the men leaving very angrily, and I confronted her, and she said she just turned him down. This customer comes in a group of 10 people that I have now lost and haven’t seen for months.
I feel devastated, and since February, I have noticed a significant decrease in funds.
My husband told me I was an ** if I fired his sister for no fault of her own, but isn’t losing income a good enough reason, no matter whose fault it is?
WIBTA?
Oh no! This sounds like such an unfortunate situation for both of them.
Let’s see what the readers over at Reddit think about the whole thing.
This person agrees with her husband.
Yet another person who agrees with the husband.
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This is great advice.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a brother who is upset his parents bought his recovering sister a brand-new car but wouldn’t help him out with a used one.
Here’s an interesting point.
This would be so wrong.
Her sister-in-law is just doing her job, and she shouldn’t lose her job just because some men can’t take no for an answer.
If the restaurant is struggling, the owner needs to focus on bringing in new customers instead of firing a good employee.
Besides, there’s no guarantee those customers would come back even if she did fire her.
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