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Ok let me translate it:
Won’t quit after 2 weeks: employer struggles to retain employees for more than a pay period or two. That means the employees upon actually using their pay decide the work isn’t worth the compensation
Works hard & doesn’t think they’re doing me a favor: employer’s expectations are such that employees feel appreciated for their contribution to the success of the business. The employer seems to agree with this assessment.
Can take a joke: you’re gonna hear some insensitive at best stuff could range from bigotry to mockery. Highly unlikely that employees can return in kind without issue
Won’t cry on the floor: if enough employees are crying on the floor that you have to seek people who won’t that’s on you not on them.
Must be reliable: outside of the above is a fair request, with the above it makes me wonder what they expect in reliability. Could easily expect employees to be on call 40+ hours a week
Must be bout that life: it’s a part time job, you show up, you behave respectfully and work with a level of effort to match your compensation, you leave. It’s not a calling or a life mission or even a career. Expecting employees to be super dedicated to it is just demanding unnecessary emotional labor to make you feel like you’re giving them some amazing opportunity.
Seriously it’s the crying and taking a joke that’s egregious
Hard to tell what kinda business it is, but if it's a bar or restaurant, the "can't take a joke" and "not crying" things could have a lot more to do with customer interaction than management interaction.
Also, working in "the industry" also comes with a certain lifestyle (even just in regards to when prime working hours and free time fall within the day)... so yeah... "bout that life" could just be about that.
I dunno... agree to disagree but I've seen "now hiring" flyers that are a lot worse.
Probably using too many brain cells on this though honestly.
I was a chef for years. Not just a prep cook or line cook, but the guy running the shit. It can get extremely stressful, no doubt, but it isn't "the industry" or customer interactions that make people cry or quit enough to cause a flyer like this. People rarely quit jobs; they quit bosses. If you are on the verge of quitting or crying in that type of job, it's almost certainly because your boss is shitty. Your boss should establish a respectful environment and stand up for you if anybody shits on you. Your boss should give you the tools and training necessary to do your job effectively. Your boss should work with you to ensure that you've got a reasonable schedule, posted with a reasonable amount of notice, providing a reasonable work/life balance rather than insisting that you just be "bout that life". Your employees do not exist solely to support your dream of running a successful business; they have their own dreams to pursue.
It's not that fucking difficult to be a decent boss, and I refuse to stand by and say nothing while you make excuses to enable shitty fucking behavior from shitty fucking bosses just because "that's how the industry is" or whatever. Maybe that was true once, but workers now have the power to tell the industry to go fuck itself, and I applaud them for doing so. We have more than enough shitty restaurants. We could close 80% of them for good, and raise prices, quality, and pay for the remaining restaurants, and I'd be thrilled. And if these shitty fucking bosses have enough trouble hiring people, I'll get my wish, because these lazy fucks can't run their stupid fucking restaurants without dirt cheap labor to exploit. Any decent boss worth their salt in any industry knows that it's the boss who works for the employees. Any business's failure or success depends on good workers running it and good bosses giving the workers everything they need to run it. Once you take care of that, good customers/clients follow, revenue spikes, and costs sink. Happy workers do the best work, and customers/clients choose happy workers to interface with. It's not that complicated.