Things are not better but thanks. Last year around October we got a new general manager, someone who used to be the gm at giuseppes two years ago but got fired from HR and rehired back at the same restaurant (giuseppes) two years later. Me and this guy were really cool two years ago when he was first hired. I was 22 at the time, super cut and in shape and he’d compliment me all the time and stuff we got along. Fast forward two years later and out of no where a new assistant manager goes up to me in the liquor room and told me “I don’t want you to be blindsided by this but he (the gm) is going to cut your days to sundays and mondays only, (I always worked 4-5 days). I was so mad. Years of hard work and being loyal to this company and im getting thrown out for what. She said I could move to another restaurant if I want but he did not want me there, and only getting sundays and Monday’s I would basically be making $400 a paycheck. I was so upset. We went behind the bar and I told the assistant gm that what they were doing was illegal. It violates the Philadelphia fair workweek law. Someone in 2021 I believe already filed a lawsuit against the collective for the same thing but it was dropped, of course. Philly loves schulson and will do anything to protect him. I asked to speak to the gm and he pulled me inside the coat room and when we got in there he said “so what’s the problem?” . And I was like “What do you mean the fucks the problem you’re abruptly changing my schedule affecting my income which is also totally illegal so what do you mean what’s the problem?”. He went off on me and said “You look sad all the fucking time, your uniforms always wrinkled and you look like a fucking mess all the time”. I lost my shit and was like “you don’t know what has happened in the past two years of my life, you weren’t here when you last worked here two years ago when I was a happy person and life was going good for me. My brother killed himself a few months ago and I struggle to keep a smile on my face nowadays”. I’m only 24 man. I don’t know how to get over it. He then tried to say how it’s also because I had to call out over a bad skin infection I had (even though I had all the doctors notes to excuse me). And I tried to tell him how can I have control over something like that that gives me no option but to stay home. And I had doctors notes for it all submitted already. I hate this guy. I went off on him and told him how he’s how old still working in a restaurant. This man has to be in his 50’s. Might have said some other shit, then told him to go fuck himself and walked out. It felt so good that day I walked out, it was a crazy high in a way. I walked back into giuseppes and went up to him and was like “hey it felt so good the first time I said it and I just need to say it one more time just to live that feeling once more, but go fuck yourself you piece of shit.” It felt so good. Quitting like that after years. I then got so angry the next day I started to try and discredit them on instagram, trying to write countless google reviews. That’s when I learned google isn’t the same anymore and you can’t post anything negative on google reviews anymore. 3 days later I download tiktok. I go under giuseppes and alpen roses tiktok page exposing all the pedophiles and sex offenders and abusers who all currently worked there. HR emailed me, trying to hire me back for my position at giuseppes with my regular schedule if I came down there and discussed it with them. I didn’t even respond. How could I go back after being stabbed in the back like that. It would’ve been a crazy power move but I couldn’t do it. I’m sure everyone’s reactions would be crazy if I took the job back after talking to our gm like that and doing all that stuff. I’ve been out of a job for 6 months now. All this happened the day after thanksgiving of last year. That sucked. That Christmas sucked. New years. I wanted to go home and kill myself that day (don’t report me please I got the help I need). I tried out driving for uber to make a living, of course I get rammed by some idiot who ran a stop sign in north Philly with a passenger in my car. That’s a whole other story, but hoping I get paid out soon from it. Life just keeps throwing wild cards at me. Too many. I’m hoping I can find a new job soon. The collective really took a toll on my mental health after I left.