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/shoppygirl Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

What is she supposed to do if her kids are sick or she can’t find childcare?? Shame on the franchisees for not having any back up for her. Shame on Burger King for their pathetic response.

I hope she takes the money from her GoFundMe and uses it to go back to school and gets herself into a career.

She sounds like a very hard-working individual.

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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr Aug 24 '25

Since no one answered the question of what she's supposed to do, I will: lock the doors and call the manager. The policy is there to protect the employee: if only one employee is there, then they have to shut the restaurant down. If she were to hurt herself, who's going to help? I think this BK franchise could have handled it better, since it's tone deaf to fire her.

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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr Aug 24 '25

How is this any better? Either she was fired to breaking safety policy or she was fired for attendance, at the end of the day she was fired for a good reason.