Bit of a preface: My manager at work is a pretty kool kat. He's from LA (westerners are pretty rare in Georgia), and he's a genuinely funny guy. He's got a hella dry sense of humour, and I could roll with it so we worked well together.
After a while, a new waitress started working. The waitress and my manager quickly realized that the other waitstaff were nosy as fuck, and so devised a plan to confuse them by acting as flirtatious as possible. I thought that shit was hilarious, and after a while I stopped paying attention to whatever antics they got up to.
In an unrelated incedent, my boss was on a rampage because someone was stealing chips and juice w/o paying, so she had been going through our video footage to find the culprit and fire the fuck out of them.
Well, I come into work today, and while i'm clocking in the cook I was relieving told me that my manager got fired like two hours ago. I was surprised, and the first thing I think is that he was the one stealing food, which doesn't really make any sense (my manager was super anal about paying for things, and always got onto waitstaff and everyone else about paying for shit). I hear a rumour from a waitress that he had been "inappropriately touching" the waitress I mentioned earlier. Of course, I think she's full of shit (waitstaff is notoriously full of shit), and the cook says that my boss will probably come tell me anyway.
Fast forward to closing, and the barista comes and tells me what had happened. Apparently, while looking through footage my boss discovered that what had started out as fake flirting had started turning really one sided (as in my manager would smack her ass and shit and she was very much not into it). Come to find out that she had attempted to draw a line, and he didn't really listen (OOC for him, he usually respects the limits that the waitresses set). Waitress feels rather ambivalent towards the whole thing (meaning she doesn't feel like sueing the balls of my manager), so he just ends up getting fired.
TL;DR a manager I was pretty good friends with at work turned out to have an abusive streak, and he got fired for it. This is really surprising to me, and it kinda colours all my interactions with him in a more negative light.
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