Manager asks barista to a pay fine for calling out sick: 'Is there any way you can pay $50'

Starting a small business is a scary thing, putting it all on the line to try and create a successful business, which will see you solely reaping possibly unlimited benefits—if you can make it that far. But, hey, you take on all of the risks, you get all of the rewards; that's fundamentally how we've decided things should work in this world… and when it works well for someone, you're not going to see them complaining. 

However, taking on the risk means taking on the risk. Which is something a lot of people don't seem to get when starting a business or making other risky investments. They think that they should get a big payout regardless… When the reason the payout stands to be so good in the first place is that there is risk involved and a lot of people lose everything. In the case of small businesses and their owners, instead of looking at themselves when losses are made, owners have a tendency to take it out on employees, asking employees to effectively cover their cost of doing business as if they have some stake in the organization. 

That's when you end up with wild employment policies like this, where managers go around asking their employees to pay them just because they happened to be sick or had some other emergency and couldn't make it in. Why on earth are these baristas having to offer money to cover a shift in the first place? It's the kind of thing you'd only ever see in the service industry.