Kurt Ehrlich

I was hired by "celebrity" chef Kurt Ehrlich to serve at an Oscar suite and was mistreated for 7 1/2 hours and not given a SINGLE break. No lunch break, no break of any kind.
Never had I ever been mistreated the way I was, either.
After being hired February 15th, Kurt told me several times "don't be late", which I find insulting in the first place.
The way I see it, you either trust someone will show up, or not.
Either way, telling them they need to be on time is not some magical protection against a "flake", it's just insulting to someone like me who is a professional that's been showing up to work on-time for a dozen years.
That should have been my proverbial "red flag" right there, and I wish I would have said "thanks, but no thanks" to the employment offer.
Instead, I agreed to work for him the 20th through 24th for the Oscar gifting suite he was catering.

I showed up nearly thirty minutes early and instead of saying "Good Morning" of saying thanks for me being on time, Kurt looked me up and down like there was already something he didn't like.


His assistant, Christina Veloz, was even worse than he was.
She started off my telling me to "triple time it" because I was not moving fast enough to suit her, even though this "glamorous" Oscar suite was so tiny and packed with people there was hardly room to move, making it impossible to hurry anywhere, especially after already having been instructed to let the guests go first, and not push my way though the crowd.
You can't have it both ways!

She scolded me for not remembering everything on the tables and I told her I have bad memory, she said "I don't want excuses".
I really DO have trouble with my memory, so how can she insult someone for what is a disability?
I told her I have P.T.S.D., and hardly before I had that out of my mouth she said "so do I"
I don't even believe that!
I thought things like that were illegal, abusing someone when they have a mental or physical disability, but it never works for me!
At the end of the night, Kurt told me to help her carry her things to her car, like I was her personal assistant, and then she even got after me for walking too fast!

I told my husband what happened and we went straight to Kurt's restaurant in Burbank.
My husband informed Kurt I would not be working the nest day and asked when and how I was going to be paid for my work 2/20/12. Kurt Ehrlich never said how or if he intended to, and told my husband to "get the f**k out of his restaurant". I have yet to receive payment or any contact.
I also made a complaint to the labor department, and have yet to hear from them, either.