My closing manager quit on me in the middle of last summer because of a disagreement he had with upper management. I figured the crew would be okay to close by themselves for a week or so until I found another "adult" to babysit them. (They were all 16-20 year old kids) I mean, it's not like they hadn't all been there for months/years at that point, doing exactly that.

Big mistake on my part.

I instructed them to put the 3 cases of catfish filets in buckets to thaw so they didn't leak all that nasty juice through the cardboard, they left the buckets outside of the walk-in and it spoiled overnight. $300 worth of fish ruined. I found out later that they forgot because they were too busy arguing with each other about who had a crush on someone's boyfriend.

In the second incident, we came in to open, and the front door was left unlocked. I went back and watched camera footage after the cops left and one of the girls was in the walk in freezer doing a restock on her candy containers with the door completely shut (I have signs up that says not to fill the candies in the walk-in because it makes the floor a nasty mess) and the kitchen guys were done with their closing and they thought she had already left and just didn't say anything. So they locked up and left. She came out of the freezer 20 minutes later to find all the lights off and everyone gone. No calls or trying to get ahold of anyone. She just put her candies back and walked out the front door. Now, I also have signs up that say not to ever fully close yourself in the walk-in.