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Customer attached a photo of me to a complaint email, manager hung it in the kitchen instead of talking to me. Is this unprofessional or is it just me?

So I work in a fast food restaurant and I am kinda mad about this situation with the general manager.

He has some issues with the management…

I work the evening shift (from lunchtime to closing around 11), and my GM is rarely around past 4, so we don’t interact a whole lot.

Last night we were super short staffed, on account of the GM scheduling barely enough people and one of those people not showing up for his shift.

It was around 9:00 at this point and my one coworker who was working the drive through window was on break, so it was just me up front.

Due to the aforementioned short staffing, I was doing drive through, bagging orders, making drinks, helping my one coworker who was in the kitchen by himself, and various other minor tasks.

This is where the trouble begins…

So while I’m by myself up front, about 9-10 decently sized orders come in at once, including both Doordash/Uber Eats as well as drive through, so I’m pretty swamped and am rushing around trying to do things in the order they came in.

At one point, I’m making drinks for a Doordash order when a customer comes in and yells at me to get my attention.

I should mention at this point that I’m have one headphone in as I’m working, which has never been an issue before and lots of my coworkers do it as well, all with no comment from the GM.

So I take out my headphone to go talk to this guy, and he says he’d been sitting at the drive through window for 5 minutes and no one has come to the window, so he came inside.

Now, I know this is an exaggeration because it had only been about 3 minutes since I handed the last person their order, but I apologize and say I’m working as fast as I can and I’d have his food to him as soon as it was ready.

UH OH…

He continues to talk about how I should have said something to him about the food taking a long time and yadda yadda, I go back to continue what I was doing.

While I have my back to him, he apparently walks back behind the counter to take a photo of me with a headphone in bagging an order, and goes back to wait for his food at the counter (which takes just around 2 minutes).

Anyhow, sometime between when I clocked in today and when the GM left at 4, she had printed the email she received from him with the photo of me blown up to about 3 feet tall and taped it to the wall above the area where we clock in and had marked it up with giant circles and comments in sharpie, and then left without saying anything to me.

That’s INSANE!

The email read (verbatim) : “Just wanted to let you know what was going on I own a business and would hate to see this drive thru times are horrible and you have workers who seem like they don’t wanna be there and have an Airpod in thought I’d let you know hope you get the problem taken care of!”, and the comments written on the photo say “(OP) AIRPODS UNACCEPTABLE”, “FLOOR TRASH UNACCEPTABLE” (with 4 fries on the ground by the fryers circled), and “DRIVE THRU 11TH PLACE UNACCEPTABLE”

He has mixed views on how the issue was dealt…

Is it just me or does it seem like this is the least professional way to handle this kind of situation?

Also, it feels incredibly dumb to blame me for ticket times being slow when there are people no call no showing to their shift and the GM’s not scheduling enough people.

Just wanted to get some thoughts from others who may have similar experiences.

GEEZ! That sounded a bit weird.

Let’s find out how users on Reddit reacted to this story.

This user knows this guy needs to start looking for other work.

This user would have quit on the spot!

This user suggests documenting this evidence.

This user wants to ask the GM to demonstrate their instructions.

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This user explains the two types of managers.

Somebody needs to complain about this GM’s behavior.