Lack of decorum

Dear Server,

I am afraid to inform you that we will no longer require your services as you have failed to follow the rules of decorum necessary to work at our restaurant. While we were able to forgive the initial transgression against professional attire--we know that you are young and have not yet been trained--we cannot forgive the transgression of the largest rule of decorum: make-work.

We are a business and we pay you to work at our establishment. To be idle when there is no business yet be ready to serve should business pick up is one thing. To be idle when no one is looking is one thing. But to actually make-no-work when there is work in front of your employer is completely unacceptable. By sitting down on the job, having dinner with the customers--we understand they are your parents, but you are also our employee--and then declaring to us that you would like to go home with the customers/your parents because business is slow and it would be convenient has affronted our notions of employer/employee relations.

Let it be known that we have waited to inform you of your grotesque transgression in the privacy of the backstage area because that is one of the rules of decorum that we follow. We sincerely hope that you will learn to conform to the rules as you age.

Sincerely,
Management.