03/02/2021 22:09
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/02/2021 22:09
“After 12 months closed due to the quarantine, the government decided to enable the cinemas.
So we reopened El Capitan.
11 months paying salaries of 20 people
.
Now I call them to work and 14 of the 20 were working elsewhere.
Asshole is little what I feel !! ", published
Tito
Loizeau on the social network Twitter.
The message exploded.
It went viral, filled with comments and responses.
Norberto Loizeau, whom everyone knows as
Tito
, wrote that message with anger.
As he will tell Clarín, he wrote it as a "catharsis"
.
The story is like this: Loizeau and his son Gastón
opened
a movie themed restaurant
in June 2019
, inspired by Hollywood in the 1930s.
They installed it
in Norcenter
, the Zona Norte shopping mall, in a location next to the
Showcase Norte
cinemas
.
The restaurant has a surface area of 350 m2 and a capacity for 150 seats.
That is, explains Tito, that
one hundred percent of his clientele access the restaurant before or after going to see a movie
on the "big screen."
The business, he says, was great: "A surface area of 350 m2 and capacity for 150 covers, traditional tables, high tables in the 50's style, more than 45 dishes on the menu. We could not complain."
But
the pandemic arrived
.
On March 3,
just a year ago, the first case of coronavirus was known in the country
.
First there were doubts, then fear and days later the closure of almost all types of activity.
"Like everyone else, I thought it was going to last fifteen days. But it was thirty and then two months and then
we no longer knew when
all this
was going to end
," he says.
El Capitan is located in the Norcenter shopping mall.
In the middle were
his employees, 20 people, all related to the gastronomic sector, to whom he continued to pay the salary from 1 to 5 in a religious way
: "By decree the Government did not let us fire or suspend anyone and that is why we We wrote down in the ATP that 50 percent of our salaries were covered, the other half was paid by me out of my pocket, without having any income. "
Meanwhile,
the WhatsApp chat that Tito had with his employees remained active
: "Hello guys, I tell you that the situation is tough, but in the next few days they will receive their salary," Loizeau wrote.
After a year in this situation, the news of the
reopening of the cinemas
of the Province of Buenos Aires and the City, was the light of hope for the 51-year-old entrepreneur.
Then he sent a message to the group again: "Good morning,
we are going to reopen the restaurant
. I need them to come so we can put it in shape," he said.
But
not a single reply came
.
Titus wrote to each of them privately and there he found out what was happening.
Of the 20 employees, 1
4 had already gotten another job, some for several months, but had never been told
.
"They continued to collect state aid," while it lasted, "and the salary that Loizeau paid them, even though they had other employers.
"It was a disappointment. It was thinking 'I banked you, I didn't leave you lying on the street and you screwed me up all the same.'
I spent two and a half million salaries throughout the year
, we had a dialogue, a relationship and that was his way of answer ", counts Tito now, quite indignant.
After 12 months closed due to quarantine, the government decided to enable cinemas.
So we reopened El Capitan.
11 months paying salaries of 20 people.
Now I call them to work and 14 of the 20 were working elsewhere.
Asshole is little what I feel!
- Tito Loizeau (@titoloizeau) March 2, 2021
The man says that
he is not going to initiate legal action
against his former employees, he hopes that everyone will send the resignation telegram and that the story ends there.
Regarding the restaurant, he does not know what will happen to his future: "
Now I have only six employees
, although I know that
if I put up a notice I have a line
of people asking to work. But we want to
wait to see how the
cinema
protocols work
, if that attracts to the public and there we will evaluate ".
The fear, of course, is that everything could go backwards: "
What if I open and in May cases are triggered? They are going
to have to close everything back, I don't know. We want to make sure that if we open it is because it is worth it."
DS
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