They Framed Me & Then Fired Me, I Unknowingly Destroyed Their Lives

they framed me they fired me and that's how they ducked themselves into a divorce a prison sentence and a handful of deportations i used to work at an upscale restaurant owned by a large corporate entity that owned several different restaurant brands i worked there for about three and a half years before they eventually fired me but more about that later first i want to give an idea of my role there my role at that job was a little of everything since the day i started working there i took it upon myself to learn as much as possible i was very persistent with management when i wanted to learn a new department i had started as a server but eventually had worked my way into different departments and job titles like carry out hosting bartending bar backing banquets catering and deliveries my singer goal while working there was to make myself available for as many hours as possible i was being paid about 12 dollars an hour though that fluctuated if i was working as a bartender or server and making tips eventually it was noticed by management how i fit best into one of the non-tipped positions i was so good at it that they decided to try me out as an unofficial supervisor over the team that worked in carry out catering and deliveries as those were all one department i knew this was going to ultimately mean a few less hours since i would only be working in one department so i negotiated with management to increase my pay by about one dollar and fifty cents since i was taking on additional responsibilities they were satisfied with the pay increase i wasn't trying to get as much money as possible i just wanted to be able to pay my bills and still have a little money left over for fun i was living in the highly taxed city of chicago which is in the already highly taxed state of illinois so it was pretty difficult to make ends meet and still have money left to enjoy my life i'm a person of simple pleasures and i can enjoy things for a long period of time so it didn't take much money to be happy point a video game could hold my attention for several months sometimes even years i had a family pet that i had brought with me to chicago so that counted as an extra expense not long after i started this position as the unofficial supervisor i got a girlfriend so i was also going out more often and spending money on her with my position and some smart budgeting i was able to afford all of this the money wasn't an issue but management had a high turnover rate so the incoming managers often did not know what the department entailed or how important hours were to workers of these departments eventually it was noted that our current general manager was going to be fired and replaced the incoming general manager was supposed to be some rockstar when it came to improving restaurants we looked up his name and found him as the first search result on google but the entry wasn't some glowing review of his work ethic or of his impeccable ability to improve the way a restaurant runs it was actually a mugshot and a police report filed for repeated domestic abuse this is important later we'll call him harvey shortly after harvey came in and started making changes one of our best managers gave her resignation she refused to work with him and like a freaking oracle told us to expect lots of sexual harassment misogynistic comments and for him to eventually run this place into the ground not long after she left our general manager began replacing our current managers with hand-picked people that he had worked with in the past eventually all but one manager was replaced that manager was the kitchen manager we will call him frido frito had been there since i had started working there he seemed to be something of a chameleon as in his values and ethics seemed to change depending on who his boss was honestly i sort of applaud his survival instincts but ultimately see him as a suck-up and traitor harvey never really replaced the manager for our department so we ran without a lot of oversight unless you count me as a supervisor we didn't constantly have someone breathing down our necks about how things should be done our department had some hiccups here and there but it still ran really smoothly since we did not have our own manager we often had to radio for a manager to come to help us out on things that needed a manager card for approval frida would always be the one to answer these calls since the kitchen was closest to our department over time the new team of managers started to see frido as the manager of our department as well however the hourly team that worked there still saw me as their supervisor this meant that any time friday was trying to make changes that would ultimately hurt us the team relied on me to mitigate those disasters or to negotiate with fredo to let us do our jobs the way we had already proven work really well over several months frido and i would but heads dozens of times he and i were constantly arguing about how important hours were to the workers in this department he had it in his head that we should be living off of tips like servers but since most of our orders were carried out they came in through grubhub and grubhub doesn't tip we didn't have a lot of deliveries in a day and the tips we got from those were maybe ten dollars if we were lucky but splitting ten dollars four ways doesn't add up to a lot it just showed that fredo had no clue what he was talking about eventually we had a meeting with harvey fredo and all the workers in this department it was marketed as a chance to voice all our grievances and concerns with the changes they wanted to make with no chance of retaliation so the workers did exactly that they talked about how frieda was trying to cut ours even though he isn't our actual manager when it was brought up that they were attempting to hire someone to be the manager the team suggested that i take over since i had already been supervising them and running things smoothly for the last several months i was also the one that management consulted with when writing schedules as i had an understanding of the days some workers could and couldn't work depending on their school schedules or family life i could see at the moment it was suggested that harvey and fredo made the decision on the spot that i had to be gotten rid of although they didn't say it i could see the look they gave each other and instinctively knew that my days at this place were numbered and my job was going to be getting the axe one way or another they made a bunch of promises to us about not cutting ours they told us that they would stop sending all but one person home early and only leaving one person to clean everything and close up by themselves as this wasn't a small department and it was simply too much for one person to do alone while still meeting health and safety standards they promised that whatever hours we were scheduled for we would work we weren't trying to be unreasonable so we told them that we usually have three or four people scheduled to work in our apartment they could cut two of them early but we always needed at least two people here to help close properly the promise was made that they would always have at least two closes however only about a week later they started sending all but one person home early again every night one night they tried to do it while i was scheduled as the closer and we had just returned from a massive catering event and there was an unbelievable amount of cleanup left to do for one person when fredo came in and tried to send everyone except me home i stepped up and told him that he was consistently breaking the promise he had made it to us during the meeting he looked me square in the face and told me to stop complaining about it and if i was going to keep trying to talk to him about him breaking his promises he could easily find someone who could work my shifts i quickly realized that this was an assassination attempt on my job he wanted me to press it further so i backed off and started cleaning i ended up having to stay well late and that meant overtime pay anyway i got a write up for that since we aren't allowed to work overtime without a manager's approval when i refused to sign the write up pointing out that i had tried to explain to fredo that i wouldn't be able to clean up all that stuff alone before my scheduled shift ended i was allowed to leave without signing the write-up but only because the hrf that was present at the time wasn't one of harvey's cronies skip ahead to the day i was fired it is important to note at this point that i always came into work an hour early since we lived in chicago food was expensive however at our job we were allowed to have as much free soup and bread as we liked so i would come into work one hour early every day so i could have some soup and bread for lunch before my shift but on this day when i walked into the kitchen to get myself some soup one of the line cooks told me that he had a dish that had been cancelled after he cooked it and frito had told him to give it to someone he assured me frido had already carped it and that it was free to take for whoever wanted it it just so happened to be my favorite appetizer so i happily took the free food not long after i got to my booth both harvey and frito approached me and asked me if i had put in a ticket for that food i told them that the line cook had given it to me and said it was the cancelled order that frido had already camped frido looked unfounded and said he had no idea what i was talking about so harvey told me i think you know that's theft go ahead and finish the food and then grab my stuff and go that's the last meal you'll be having here i tried to explain to them that i had been given this food by the line cook but they refused to listen so i offered to take them to the kitchen to clear it up with the cook but by the time i had gone back to the kitchen with them to talk to the line cook he had already gone home for the day i had no choice but to gather my stuff say my goodbyes and head home on my way out i told my people working in my department that afternoon what had happened exactly as it happened they were shocked and angry but mostly sad to see me go i decided that on my way out i would stop by the accounting office and pick up any tips that may have been dropped for me that week just to make sure i didn't get screwed out of that money before heading down i had the gut feeling to just set my phone to record and i stuffed it into my pocket with the camera rolling although the video was entirely black since it was in my pocket i did manage to get a pretty muffled recording of harvey and fredo's voices through the door discussing how things had gone as planned and that they had been trying to get rid of me ever since the meeting with my department i knocked on the door and they hushed up before opening it they asked what i was still doing there and i asked for my tips they gathered what was in the safe for me and handed it over despite my anger rising at what i had just heard i decided not to burn this bridge just yet because perhaps i could nuke it later i offered a handshake to both managers thanked them for the opportunity to work there and left making sure to pull my phone out of my pocket and record the front of the restaurant with the sign showing its name and logo working in a restaurant you learn to always cover your own but it's true for most jobs but something was just telling me i would need this all later if i was being accused of theft i wanted to be able to prove it wasn't true if ever came up in future job interviews which is exactly what happened and where this all started going nuclear on the train ride home i sent some messages and made some posts on some local groups on facebook saying that i had just been fired and that i was looking for a job as quickly as possible by the time i got off at my stop i had already set up an interview for later that day i was offered the job about five minutes into the interview but after going over the details it didn't sound like it was for me so i turned it down i interviewed a few other places and found one that was a damned good fit with a hefty pay increase compared to my previous job and i wouldn't have to deal with customers it was an auditing job for a logistics company however during the interview with the manager of this job he mentioned he had already called my previous place of employment and spoken with the general manager harvey harvey had told him that i had been fired for theft luckily for me the manager i was interviewing with asked me to tell him more about that and he was willing to let me pull out my phone and find the recording i asked if the voice in the video was the same as the one he spoke on the phone with it was that was confirmation enough for him that i hadn't made a fake video he listened to the two managers in the video admit that they had set me up and watched to the end when i showed the front of the restaurant complete with the logo and name the manager interviewing me whom we'll start calling dean hired me immediately and asked me to send him the recording i did i thought that was the end of it about seven months later after settling into this job quite nicely hr sent out a welcome all or new team members email which listed all the newest hires some facts about them and had pictures of them all they sent these out every time they hired a new round of people one of them thomas was a former co-worker who worked with me at the restaurant we had worked at the host stand together so i was pretty glad to see someone i knew and liked coming onto the team i sought out his desk and went and said hello and asked why he left the restaurant he hadn't left willingly he'd been laid off because the company was under investigation it had started as a relatively small matter the corporate entity that owned the restaurant chain had received an email with an attached video my video that had been filmed from inside my pocket that caused enough for corporate to send someone to investigate internally thomas was pretty surprised that i hadn't heard anything about it since there had been numerous attempts to get in touch with me as soon as he said that i logged into the old ml i had used when i first applied for the job at the restaurant i had at least two dozen emails asking me to come in to discuss my employment and termination i never replied i just didn't care enough anymore i'd also changed my number since then so they hadn't been able to contact me by phone thomas continued explaining that before corporate had sent someone harvey and fredo had talked with my department and tried to offer them all a small pay increase to spin corporate a story about how i was incompetent at my job and failed to live up to my duties the day the corporate auditor showed up there had been a small exodus of people from my old department they quit on the spot in front of the lady from corporate let's call her audrey and made sure to rat out harvey and fredo before leaving strike one for both of them strike two came a couple of days after audrey showed harvey and frieda the recording that had kicked all of this off they denied it vehemently but there was no mistaking harvey's voice it's unique not only that but the video also picked up their voice and mine when we shook hands and had a friendly parting of the ways which was something they had already bragged about to audrey thinking it made them look better that we were able to part on good terms this wasn't the actual strike too that came when it was clear they needed to be separated so audrey sent frido to work at another restaurant owned our parent company and temporarily demoted harvey to a manager this tore them apart they had once been an inseparable evil team but the pressure of the investigation must have pushed them over the edge they ended up at each other's throats on facebook on a public post on the company page the post had since been deleted but thomas explained it as the following frito had been pictured in the facebook post on the restaurant page and harvey made a passive aggressive comment about how fredo shouldn't even be in the picture since had been moved to another restaurant due to misconduct fredo saw this comment and said something along the lines of at least when people google my name i don't show up as the guy that punched his wife to which harvey responded very funny from the guy who is cheating on his wife with janet's sister janet was the girl they appointed to supervise my department after they fired me the unofficial supervisor frido replies to that by saying like you haven't tried with half the waitresses they all have stories about you trying to molest them the post was deleted but not before it had been seen by audrey the auditor that was officially strike two strike three came the next day when audrey started interviewing the female weight staff and bartenders seeing if any of them could confirm that harvey had tried to make a move on them all of them were interviewed separately several of them had similar stories every girl that confirmed harvey had made a move on the mall said he had offered to be their sugar daddy if they would send nudes or stay after closing to fool around with him harvey was fired but that isn't the worst of it audrey the auditor wasn't just some random woman from corporate she was the old regional manager for this area and had personally hired harvey's wife as the general manager of another restaurant in the city so she called up the restaurant have his wife worked at and told harvey's wife everything she had learned from the female white staff we learned later that they had gotten a divorce over him trying to cheat on her after she'd already given him a second chance to change after he had beat her i don't know what compelled her to give him a second chance after something like that but she sure didn't give him a third after firing harvey the line cook who had given me the food was interviewed by audrey i don't know how it came up but at some point he had let it slip that he was an illegal immigrant she had his file in her hand with an illinois id and social security number on file so this confused her and she pressed him for more information it turns out that fredo had some connections and had his miniature black market going on where he would have faked social security cards and ids made for the illegal immigrants he was hiring at reduced wages it had been going on for at least four years needless to say this is a felony with the potential pr nightmare that she was likely dealing with she felt she had no choice but to alert the authorities local pd enlisted the help of the fbi since some of the evidence led them beyond the jurisdiction of the local police frieda was arrested and quickly gave up the names of the people working that he had sold social security cards and ids to i'm not sure if he gave up all of them but he did name drop about 14 people and of those 14 at least half were deported by the time thomas had been let go one of them was the line cook that had given me the food the day i was fired thomas went on to explain that it had all started with me being fired but i never sent that according to corporate i'd only sent it to dean when he hired me i asked him about it and he told me he had sent it to his wife since she was a lawyer he wanted to see if i had a case to maybe sue my old job since what they had done was wrong but he also remembered that when we had the first talk about it i had said i'm not the type of person who would try to make millions off an entire company because of the mistakes of two buttholes but i'd also said that it would be pretty sweet to see them lose their jobs too so his wife had been the one that sent it to the legal team at the corporate hq of my old restaurant job my boss showed it to his wife who forwarded it to the real head conscious of my old job they were both just trying to get to scumbags fired for what they did to me but ended up pulling a thread so long that it didn't end until there were sexual harassment accusations revelations about managers cheating on their wives with girls related to people they had placed in positions of authority a divorce mass layoffs pending investigations a staff overhaul an fbi investigation into what could be considered black market dealings are falsified government issued documents and at least a half dozen deportations and probably as many as 14 i don't know if this counts as nuclear revenge as i didn't actively pursue it but thomas ended up showing me that even if it wasn't revenge it was definitely nuclear and the crater it had left was massive [Music] you

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Published: Sun Aug 30 2020