My little 18-year old foreign ass worked front of house at Phantom of the Opera. I ended up chatting with the guy who had just started playing Firmin and he asked me how I liked his performance. I told him I thought it was quite good, he went to the manager and I got sacked for insulting an actor. That’s when I learned “quite” doesn’t really mean “very”.

Anyhoo, he was gone himself 2 weeks later because “he didn’t get along with the cast.”

Yes, I mentioned that I will be going back to school in 3 months to someone. Then they had problems with a customer and were looking for a scapegoat. We worked in pairs, so they figured that they can blame two different pairs where I was part of for not cleaning properly after the shift. And because the other guys only got one warning and me two they selectively could blame it on me and fire me while we cleaned exactly like always and with different people, etc.

This way they could tell the customer they took responsibility and fired someone, while only letting go someone who would have been gone in two months anyway. The guys with the families and difficulties finding new jobs were able to stay.

I had to find a new job for those two months because I needed still to save some money. All in all probably a humane way of getting the customer off their back.

Yeah, I have. One time, a client booked me for a weekend. When I showed up, he was already really drunk and clearly on something else too. His behavior was unpredictable and made me uncomfortable, so I decided to leave. My agency refunded him and blacklisted him from booking again.

… I must have put it down here somewhere…