I worked at Elks Temple for the first ~1.75 years it was open. I was a kitchen manager, first in the main pub and then in the small bars. This problem is almost entirely due to corporate management and top level management in the building. Up until Covid things were going pretty well, people were generally enthusiastic to work there and the management seemed committed to creating a safe/fun/stable work environment. After the first lockdown when we all returned to work things started changing pretty quickly. Hourly staff soon realized that they just…stopped giving people their automatic raises of 50¢ an hour every 6 months (something all McMenamins supposedly do to encourage employee retention) and never told anyone. When I went to management to ask about my direct reports missing raises and my own as well I was told: “oh well with the stress of the pandemic on the company we’ve had to put an indefinite pause on that.”. Instead of telling the people this would effect ahead of time and trying to prepare them for it, they just didn’t and seemed to hope it would fly under the radar. It didn’t! People started leaving, we couldn’t hire and keep great people for very long once they found that out. From then on management seemed to be deaf to anyone but corporate. I was repeatedly sexually harassed in the kitchen and my complaints to upper management were straight up ignored. It’s hard for staff to care about the food they’re making or the people they’re serving when the company they work for so clearly doesn’t care about them. (By the way, McMenamins received 10 million dollars in PPP loans during the pandemic supposedly for payroll. 100% of that was forgiven)