Today was my first day back to work at a new Ruby Tuesdays (in Bloomfield) after the Waterbury store unceremoniously shut down nearly three weeks ago. I'd forgotten to write the story down at the time, but new information obtained from management at the new store have provided me the impetus to convey some of the details:

On Sunday January 24 the Ruby Tuesday in Waterbury held an impromptu staff meeting at 7 pm, announced only days before. The managers claimed they had no idea as to the purpose of the meeting, but the brass was to attend. I wasn't even going to go, since I worked from 9 to 4:30, but I came back so I would look good.

About half the employees showed up for 7, then we waited around for two hours for the last customers to leave. As soon as the doors were closed, the regional manager announced the store was closed for good -- no forewarning given to anyone. My immediate question was whether transfers were guaranteed, as they seemed reluctant to suggest everyone was suddenly fired. They were.

The lie was that management had had no foreknowledge of the store's closing as the result of failed lease negotiations with the Brass Mill Center Mall that had come to a head only days before. In fact, the managers had known for quite a while and had simply chosen not to tell any of the employees for fear of mass absences, theft, etc. Their acting during the weeks prior to that Sunday were worthy of an Academy Award.

At least I and my friend Mike were able to actually take advantage of those "guaranteed" transfers and still have jobs...not without a lot of work calling and visiting a bunch of stores throughout the state. Many of my former coworkers have no means of transportation to other Ruby Tuesdays and are now wholly unemployed. Some may have been able to transfer but have nowhere near the hours on which they were dependent, effectively leaving them partially unemployed. For example, two of the employees with whom I worked and who were dating each other are expecting a baby. Their situation -- especially that of their unborn baby -- has been made drastically dire. It's a situation that could have been ameliorated, if only slightly, given a dose of rudimentary consideration on the part of Ruby Tuesday's management.

Yet again corporate America has proven itself to be an uncompassionate, profit-hungry leviathan. Concern for the community and the working person is clearly no longer part of the fabric of the modern-day capitalistic system. This is simply one small example of a much larger and dangerous phenomenon engulfing our entire society.

The question now lies in how it can be remedied before more lives are ruined and the American Dream becomes even more of a myth.

  posted by S. Parker @ 4:54 AM

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