Employee Asks For Legal Advice After Having Restaurant Door Cut To Get Out Of Work After Boss Forbids Them To Call 911
Imagine getting stuck onsite at your work for the whole night with the boss threatening to fire you if you call the fire department for help. It sounds like a nightmarish scenario, but this is precisely what happened to one fast food restaurant worker named Zealousideal-Ebb-481 who shared their story on Reddit.
“I called my manager and was told I’ll be stuck here at least all night long, if not longer if they can’t get the door open in the morning,” the author said. The gate door got seized as they were trying to leave after the shift ended. “There is no emergency exit in the restaurant, there is inside the Walmart but I can’t leave the restaurant. No windows either.”
But when the author called their boss, the response was rather shocking. “My boss made it very clear that I am *not* to call the fire department as they will ruin the door, and they will be here first thing in the morning…” Read the whole story below and be sure to share your thoughts about this whole situation in the comment section.
Recently, a fast-food restaurant worker shared a distressing post of how they got stuck onsite for the whole night if not longer
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“Aside from the legal questions, this is a great example of where you simply have to listen to your gut feeling about your employer and the whole situation,” Christine Mitterbauer, licensed and ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur, told Bored Panda.
“The threat of the employer to fire the poor employee if he takes matters into his own hands, and to just wait it out overnight or longer in that room, are completely unreasonable and in fact, crazy. Would you really want to work for a person who demands this of you? What else is this employer going to demand or expect in other situations, bigger or smaller, in the future?”
Christine explained that working for an irrational and unreasonable employer is one of the greatest sources of career stress. “It’s one of the most common problems clients have that come to me for support,” she said.
“I would advise anyone in this type of situation to find a new role, and ensure in future interviews that they listen to their gut feeling when being interviewed. Don’t think you have to just accept any job, you need to have a good gut feeling about your employer,” the career coach concluded.
And this is what people had to comment about this whole incident
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Reminds me of the time when I worked at a small box store (their initials are DG) and we had a huge snowstorm and one of the managers called the district manager to inform her that she was stuck at the store as the snow had gotten so deep (and the manager has kept the store open per the DMs orders) that her husband couldn't even get to her in his four wheel drive pickup. Manager told the DM she would have to spend the night at the store. The DM told her "I don't care if you have to walk home, you are NOT allowed to stay in that store!" She managed to get home safely and the next day called the DM up to turn in her keys.
So the employee wanted to stay in? I mean she did have everything she needed--heat, water, food, and bedding. There are worse places to be stuck. Seems better than making her walk home in such severe weather. But I might be misreading the story since I just woke up.
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Yezz, it's a freaking fast-food restaurant, from what you can find one every 100 meters, especially in USA. They are threatening with being fired, unless you don't stay overnight in a blocked space, with no escape? After this answer, I would quit, and the very next day starting at a new place with emergency exit. Anyway, how was even allowed to start a business at a place with no emergency exit? It's not mandatory in US?
quitting would be the worst idea ever. you either go immediately to HR (their job is to protect the company, and what happened to that person most definitely jeopardizes the company), or you are fired, if you are fired, you lawyer up and they will offer you a huge sum to go away and never mention another word of the incident.
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Reminds me of the time when I worked at a small box store (their initials are DG) and we had a huge snowstorm and one of the managers called the district manager to inform her that she was stuck at the store as the snow had gotten so deep (and the manager has kept the store open per the DMs orders) that her husband couldn't even get to her in his four wheel drive pickup. Manager told the DM she would have to spend the night at the store. The DM told her "I don't care if you have to walk home, you are NOT allowed to stay in that store!" She managed to get home safely and the next day called the DM up to turn in her keys.
So the employee wanted to stay in? I mean she did have everything she needed--heat, water, food, and bedding. There are worse places to be stuck. Seems better than making her walk home in such severe weather. But I might be misreading the story since I just woke up.
Load More Replies... Yezz, it's a freaking fast-food restaurant, from what you can find one every 100 meters, especially in USA. They are threatening with being fired, unless you don't stay overnight in a blocked space, with no escape? After this answer, I would quit, and the very next day starting at a new place with emergency exit. Anyway, how was even allowed to start a business at a place with no emergency exit? It's not mandatory in US?
quitting would be the worst idea ever. you either go immediately to HR (their job is to protect the company, and what happened to that person most definitely jeopardizes the company), or you are fired, if you are fired, you lawyer up and they will offer you a huge sum to go away and never mention another word of the incident.
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