You show up for work, day in and day out, and after a couple weeks, your checks start bouncing and no one is ordering supplies.
I’ve worked for some crappy managers, but nothing like this,
Fast-food shop owner takes off, employees take over
It was a scene right out of “Home Alone,” but the locale was a Quiznos Sub shop in North Seattle, where the franchise owner was absent for weeks and the skeleton crew made do with a dwindling food supply and a lot of irate customers.
“Due to bad owners we are out of a lot of things, please do not get mad at the employees & manager,” explained the cardboard sign on the door.
Things had been this way since November, Dawna Lentz, the store manager said, just a month after the sub shop opened in a little strip mall on Holman Road.
Since food vendors would no longer deliver on credit, Lentz drove to discount grocers to buy lunchmeat, using cash from the previous day’s till. She bought the special Quiznos bread from other franchises, rationing part of what was left after the lunch rush, so there would be enough for the crew working the dinner shift.
Lentz tried to pay employees daily. On the back of each employee’s paycheck, which she didn’t distribute for fear they’d bounce, she tallied the hours worked and the cash each employee received. She wasn’t sure how to handle payroll taxes, so she paid each worker according to the net income shown on their checks.
Sounds like a good manager to me. I wonder if Quiznos can sue the previous owner? And if they can, they should give her and the employees who stuck around bonuses.