Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I work as a host at a restaurant in an area affected by Hurricane Michael. There’s a curfew on the area, which causes businesses to close early so that their employees can get home before the curfew goes into effect. 


About an hour ago, someone called to ask if we were still open. We were actually just about to close, but because the people on the phone said they were only five minutes away, the manager they could come on in and then we’d be done. 


Fast-forward about ten minutes. It’s been a slow night all around, and there’s no sign of the folks who called to ask if we’re open. Someone else calls to ask if we’re still open, and my boss says to go ahead and close for the night, then wanders off to handle managerial matters. I tell the person on the phone that we’re closed, then start to wait for our remaining guests to leave so I can do my closing work. 


Another ten minutes went by, and the people that called twenty minutes prior arrived. I told them that, unfortunately, we were closed for the night and explained that we had to give our employees time to get home before curfew. They were upset because they were told they could come in, but didn’t try to contest me once I re-iterated that we were closed. I felt bad about it, but I didn’t want to catch hell from my boss for seating someone after closing.


Contrary to my fears, my manager instead chewed me out for turning them away. I explained that I was only doing as she said, and that they arrived a whole fifteen minutes later than what they told us. She understood, but told me that I ought to use better judgement, and that now she’s going to catch hell for telling guests to come in only for them to be turned away upon arrival. She claims I should have seated them because they called ahead. 


Am I the asshole for turning them away? Obviously it would have been better to seat them, but hindsight is 20-20. With the information I had, should I have done differently? 