never have been so happy to be out of work, & yet, so pissed

[miss_kae_oz]

half way through the night, Marissa was so pissed, she was shaking.

The short story - the entire Boondocks staff has quit. Starting with the bar staff, I believe the entire security followed. Entire security, thats a joke. But thats where the long story comes in.
A slightly longer version of the story goes this way - ABC cracks down on Boondocks. Changes are made. An outside security firm is contracted with only four of our original guys on staff.

With the new security working door -
dress code is completely ignored, grills, jeans, stunner shades, sneakers were everywhere (for hip-hop clubs, this is a really bad thing).
People were getting wrist bands without being ID'd - confirmed by our regulars.
People were let in the back the door.
They were not doing pat downs.
Fights went unbroken up, except by the promoters.
There were a bunch of other little things you should ask Marissa about, she tells it so much better than I.
But the culmination was, the security from the firm, dragging a customer from their car as they drove by and beating them in the street. Limey Rob has pictures. 911 has my number.

It was a ridiculously torturous night. We all quit when they said they could not change it. Something about licensing and bonding. We took a stand and all quit.
Admittedly skinheadbrian beat us to it, but we followed quickly.

Comments

[psymbiotic.livejournal.com]

Tha place just sounds like a nightmare. I'm glad you're out of there. :o

Egan

[deificar.livejournal.com]

I second that.

[lilibat.livejournal.com]

Urgh.

I'm sorry. That's just ridiculous.

[petrock-01.livejournal.com]

Nah... security crew didn't quit... We were let go. I literally just found out an hour ago.

The ABC rade actually has little to do with all this (they didn't issue a single sitation or warning, they basically just yelled at everyone). From what I understand it all falls down to who owns the liquer license (not Dean). Some government official was pissed that the owner of the liquer licence was not the operator of the club. So Maffeed took over the club until Dean can have everything transfered over to him (will take a while). Dean is technically not allowed to step foot in the club while it is open until that happens. So, Maffeed wanted a bonded security crew so that he has no liability if something goes down while the club is open etc. Soooo poof, regular security crew is let go... I was just told tonight.

[pygmalion.livejournal.com]

That horror show WA the first night of the security change. Mafeed had kept 4 of our regular security on. Dave T and Genevieve both showed up because no one told them.
Quite a few of the security that were there that night said they were going to quit but Pat and Joe Lee went back.
But the entire bar staff refused to go back under such attrocious conditions and told Mafeed as much.
I can't believe no one told you earlier.