u/Tinabird20

If you're like me you just found it's apparently your responsibility to pay for every single cover band at your bar. To have a music license. Is it bullshit is it predatory 100%. You can ignore them as my bosses did for years. But, you can also get hit with massive fines because technically they are correct. I thought I was nonsense until I did some research.

Turns out advertising my band on Facebook opened a can of worms I can't close. In the age of AI why can't we have a device in our bars that listens to the music and pays the actual royalties that should be paid.

I pay over 2k in fees for playing $500 worth of copywrited material. And the artists aren't getting any of it because those licensing companies are not distributing it.

We have to figure something out or the garage band and dive bar will die.

One of my bartenders posted a Tiktok of someone getting told to leave the bar. They captioned it with derogatory comments about the person calling them a w+-re. They even had derogatory music playing. The other employee in the video was entirely unaware the video was posted.

When I called demanding they take the video down they sort of laughed me off. It took a second phone call to get it taken down. I still don't know if they just hid it from me or actually removed it.

I took away their shifts for the weekend and decided today to terminate. The rest of my employees seem happy okay with the decision. I started hearing many stories about how they were a not great coworker.

I feel like I made the right choice and that this person fired themselves. I still feel like crap that someone lost their job and it was my choice. At the end of the day everyone else has stepped up huge to help me be successful since I took over in January. I feel like they were just the weak link taking the entire team down and everyone has been working way to hard for me to allow that.

Does anyone think I overreacted?