Employees Do Their Jobs Best When You Don’t Let Them Die
Bad Behavior, Bosses & Owners, Health & Body, Restaurant | Healthy Working | May 13, 2022
I work with a manager who has alienated everyone we work with because of a medical emergency I had. We got so slammed one morning that we were still trying to catch up at noon when my relief manager came in. My friend was working on breakfast dishes. I was trying to clean the egg grill when I got dizzy all of a sudden and passed out.
From what I was told, [Friend] saw me and ran right over, got on the ground, and held me up so he could check my pulse and make sure that I was breathing and that I wasn’t bleeding from the head. Someone alerted my manager, who had my cashier call 911 while he walked around aimlessly.
[Friend] started giving the cashier my medical history.
Manager: “[Cashier], get off the phone and get back to work!”
My friend took the phone from her so she could do that, and he took over giving dispatch information while still holding on to me. Thirty seconds later:
Manager: “[Friend], leave her and get back to work.”
Friend: “No way! I’m not leaving her until the paramedics get here”
Finally, I woke up and tried to sit up by myself, but [Friend] had one hand on my back in case I fell.
The paramedics came in and checked me over. They told [Friend] it was a good thing he had stayed with me; my heart rate was so high that I could have gone into cardiac arrest.
Manager: “Good thing I told you to stay with her, [Friend]!”
Everyone denied this. Later, [Friend] told our General Manager everything that happened.
Sadly, the idiot still has a job.
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