Subway Manager’s Personal Favor Leads to Chaotic Hiring and a Firing That Highlights Serious Misconduct
A former Subway employee says her first job quickly devolved into chaos after a manager hired a 23‑year‑old worker as a personal favor — a decision that blurred workplace boundaries and ultimately led to an explosive firing over a wage dispute.
Content creator Berlin, who shared the account in a recent video, said the manager hired the employee, whom she identified only as “Bo,” not through a standard interview but because she was attempting to persuade his parents to attend her private swinger party. Berlin said she was a teenager at the time and did not understand the nature of the event, but the hiring arrangement immediately set an unprofessional tone inside the store.
According to Berlin, Bo routinely brought a large glass bong into the restaurant and kept it beside the sandwich sauce bottles during shifts. She said he openly smoked from it while customers were present, filling the store with haze that she only noticed after returning from taking out the trash. Despite the smoke, she said customers continued to tip.
The situation escalated when the manager announced in a staff group chat that paychecks would be delayed for a week due to a software change. Berlin said Bo objected, posting a screenshot of labor regulations stating that withholding scheduled pay violated state law.
The manager responded by sending security‑camera footage showing Bo smoking from the bong inside the store. She followed the image with a two‑word message: “You’re fired.”
Berlin said the firing ended what she described as an already unstable workplace environment, shaped by the manager’s decision to hire an employee based on a personal social favor rather than professional qualifications. She said the manager’s conduct — from the unconventional hiring to the delayed paychecks and the retaliatory firing — created conditions that were unsafe, inappropriate, and unfair to staff.
Berlin recalled Bo’s eccentric personality and clothing, but emphasized that the manager’s actions set the tone for the dysfunction. “Bringing someone in because you want something from their parents is not how you run a workplace,” she said. “Everything that happened after that was predictable.”
Labor experts say the incident illustrates how personal entanglements and boundary violations by managers can destabilize entry‑level workplaces, leaving young employees vulnerable to misconduct and inconsistent enforcement of rules.
Berlin said she has not spoken to Bo since the firing but remembered him fondly, calling him “a legend” of retail chaos. She said the experience taught her how quickly a workplace can unravel when leadership abandons professional standards.
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