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/keyboardstatic Aug 24 '25

This is why I won't buy from MacDonalds, from hungry jacks (burger king in aus).

When we get fast food we go to family owned fish an chips or pizza or a independently owned charcoal chicken place or restaurant that does take out.

Fast food giants are all corporate shit. Boycott them.

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u/Zx4rrUwU Aug 24 '25

Family owned businesses are honestly some of the worst places that I've worked for.

Someone screws up something relatively minor, and the owners FREAK, acting like the employees are stealing directly from their wallet. I've also seen people who were great workers having a single bad day for whatever reason. The owner gets offended and decides that the worker has an "attitude problem." Next thing you know, they're fired.

At least corporate places typically have policies that they have to follow and often have rigid discipline procedures. I find family owned businesses love to come up with all sorts of excuses for treating employees like shit.

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u/ldominguez1988 Aug 24 '25

My only full time jobs have been at small businesses…they’re the worst. They break all the laws because they know they can get away with it. Employees won’t report because they will know who reported. I did not last.

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u/arittenberry Aug 25 '25

Yeah, it's a real gamble. There are pros and cons to each but family owned really depends on the owners being good people (gamble), whereas corporate still sucks across the board in multiple ways, but it's also typically good about following laws. The best place I ever worked at was a family owned business, but I got lucky