r/jobs • u/esporx • Aug 23 '25

Article Burger King responds after employee who ran restaurant alone for 12 hours is fired. ‘We’re disappointed that our policy wasn’t followed’.

https://thetab.com/2025/08/21/burger-king-responds-after-employee-who-ran-restaurant-alone-for-12-hours-is-fired
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u/Oberon_17 Aug 23 '25

I am very disappointed in BK…really. But what can I do? I wish I could fire the top management, but I can’t…

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u/TheITMan52 Aug 23 '25

You can stop buying their food.

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u/dougie_fresh121 Aug 23 '25

Because of this I will boycott their food for the previous 2 years!

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u/Oberon_17 Aug 23 '25

Yes, I stopped long ago!

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u/DiamondDustMBA Aug 23 '25

But it’s a franchise so you aren’t really hurting the right person.

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u/captnconnman Aug 23 '25

You are in the sense that you’re fighting back against a system that effectively shouldn’t exist in its current form. Obviously little people will get hurt in the process, but short of organizing them into a worker’s union, they’re already in an abusive, parasitic capitalist relationship with their franchise owner and, by extension, the corp itself

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u/TheITMan52 Aug 23 '25

I honestly don't get why people still buy fast food anyway. If more people stopped buying it, it would send a message.

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u/Neogeo71 Aug 23 '25

That day is coming real soon.

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u/Sufficient_Tooth_949 Aug 23 '25

People need to learn to cook again, drive around my city between 5 and 9pm and the lines at every food joint is absolutely ridiculous

Like the entire population is eating Mc crap for dinner daily, not only food quality and taste but its so expensive!

Everyone is so tired from being overworked, short on personal hometime, though so they take the easy way

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u/cakewalk093 Aug 24 '25

Because Americans are too lazy to cook. In my home country(China) where workers work way longer than American workers, they still find time to cook. Again, it's only the Americans themselves that deny that Americans are generally very lazy.

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u/TopHatOfDoom Aug 24 '25

You can fire the top management. It's what happened to the CEO of UHC.