There is always a lot competition for this title. But (courtesy of Gawker and a tip from Scott), Vadim Ponorovsky, who owns the restaurant Paradou in Manhattan, appears to have won the prize. Here is the email he sent to his staff, which was forwarded to Gawker:
To All,
Please read this email carefully. This is the last time we will be discussing this.
This weekend, saturday and sunday we had 451 customers. Guess how
many emails we collected? 60? 80? 40? No. None of those. We, or more
acurately you, collected 2 emails. Thats less than half of one percent.
2 fucking emails.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ASSHOLES?!?!?! How many times do we
have to tell you how important it is that you collect emails. Everytime
we have a slow night and you make no money and you sit there bitching
about how you make no money, remember its because youre fucking lazy
motherfuckers. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY!!!!! ALL OF YOU,
INCLUDING THE HOSTS!!!!
Let me guess, youre probably sitting there saying "Vadim is such a
fucking asshole. How dare he speak to me like this. I dont need this."
Youre right, you dont, so why dont you get the fuck out. Any and all of
you.
Youre probably sitting there saying "How dare he speak to me like
this. How dare he not have respect for me". Youre right there also. I
have absolutely no respect for any of you. Why? Because every fucking
day, all of you continue to show that you have absolutely no respect
for me or Alex. So if you dont respect us enough to do the little that
we ask you to do, then GET THE FUCK OUT YOU FUCKING LAZY DISRESPECTFUL
ASSHOLES!!!!!
Effective immediately, any server or host who fails to collect at
least 20 emails per week, will be fined $100. Anyone failing to collect
at least 20 emails for two weeks in a month will be fired immediately.
No matter what. No matter who you are.
You dont want to do your job, you dont want to do what we ask, you dont belong at Paradou. Go find another place to work.
How dare you disrespect Alex and me this way. How dare you completely ignore what we ask of you time after time after time.
I am sick of all this shit, you bunch of fucking children. This is
what I have to deal with at 6AM?!?!? I wouldnt tolerate this from my 13
year old, and Im sure as shit not going to tolerate it from any of you
assholes.
You give no respect, you get 10 times back.
If you can top that, let me know.
P.S. There are all sorts of subsequent actions here, from a defense by the owner (with more F words and a claim that he practicing Reagonomics) and apparently there are death threats against him. See here, here, and here.
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