Yurusanai Yo, Alexander Kuiken!

This story is about a horrible person I once knew. His name as Alexander Kuiken. He works at P.F. Chang's in Torrance, CA. At first, I thought of him as a cool person. However, near the end of Elizabeth Garriott's tenure as General Manager--Jared Fuerte took over in January 2016--I had second thoughts about him. This is our story.

I was hired on December 7, 2015 as a Backwaiter, or a combination of Busser and Food Runner. Alex Kuiken had been working at P.F. Chang's longer than I have. The earliest I known him working there was prior to 2013. However, one night, when I was taking the dishes to the dish room, he comes in and yells at me to "get another fucking rack!". This made me reconsider Alex K. as a friend. I viewed him as a horrible person for how he swears and curses at others without any remorse.

I got frustrated with his unfair behavior and called him out for it. What do I get? Threats that I would be going to HR. I broke down and threatened to run away to El Segundo's P.F. Chang's as a transfer employee. After numerous attempts to transfer over there over the span of two years, I almost got my chance.

Memorial Day Weekend 2018, Ashley Rousell, the new General Manager for the Torrance location, talked to the new GM for the Manhattan Beach store. They said they'll look into the transfer process and have me over there late-June/early-July. At that time frame, nothing seemed to happen and I am still in Torrance. Knowing that one day, Liz Kosonoy will have me on her team, I worked super hard, even taking on different jobs at the store, including Dishwashing and Hosting, the latter was more noticeable when half of the squad have already left. In that order, Rousell lost Sarah Leisy, Daniella Serrano, Lauren Liddle (even though I was glad she's gone), Micaela Huerta, Sydney Engel, Haleigh Brown-Toussaint, and (finally) Ashley Titiriga. I found out Titiriga left us when newly-promoted manager Natalie Soto called me into work under such short notice one night.

After El Segundo closed their doors down on September 23, 2018, we were down to one P.F. Chang's in the South Bay. I got the host job that I bargained for, and I got to work with some of El Segundo's former employees, including the inherited manager Kosonoy. I initially thought she was replacing Rousell as general manager for the Torrance store, but it was revealed that Kosonoy is helping out the team. At the meeting where El Segundo's fate is discussed, the Torrance store also belongs to Rousell.

It was Thanksgiving 2018, I realized that working at P.F. Chang's was getting too depressing for me. It was fun when Garriott was the general manager of the store. Hell, I would've liked it better if I was hired around my 18th birthday in 2012. This implies that if Linda Mengel was still alive making it to 65 years old in Idaho as of 2018, it would've been easier for me to get Chang's given that Garriott was shortstaffed for most part. I was planning on finding a new job outside the P.F. Chang's community once I got back from Idaho near the end of the year. However, this took a wrong turn when someone came across my story on Fabian Barba (who was hired months after Garriott moved to Irvine), wishing him death (parodying a scene from "Gravity Falls").

One Saturday night, I was informed by Rousell that my employment had been suspended pending investigation. She mentioned that HR will have a word with me about the incident. The following week, Chad Larsen, who talked to us about El Segundo's transition in September, informed me about my story, saying that it had strong language and that I crossed the line. I explained to Larsen that this happened because Kuiken (one of the people involved in the story) was being unfair, even bringing up my first months at the restaurant which were also Garriott's last weeks as general manager for said store.

Feeling guilty, I told Rousell that if I was given a chance to resign from work, I chose not to. The reason was that the last time I resigned from my previous job, my parents were not happy with the fact that I chose to quit ArcLight Cinemas in 2015 after 10 short months with them. In other words, if the antonym for resign is to stay, then the latter is my option. However, Larsen ended up terminating me on December 4, 2018.