In Lincoln, Nebraska, a burger king outlet has gone viralafter all the employees decide to quit. This branch of Burger King has become ahot topic of discussion among the natives as well as on the internet. The staffmembers of this branch said, “We all quit” further continued it saying, “Sorryfor the inconvenience”. The image of the branch is all over the internet andthe people are giving up the predictions behind the employees taking up thisdecision.
On Saturday, a photo was shared on Facebook by RachaelFlores, one of the employees at the Burger King branch. By sharing thatphoto, she also attributed the move to a lack of effective measures by the ‘uppermanagement’. She captioned the picture as, "One of the original photos. Wequit cause upper management was a joke and had no care for me or my employees.I put in my 2 weeks and so did MANY other people. "
The picture wentviral on social media platforms and the former employees said that theworking atmosphere there was “hectic” and this decision came after months ofshort staffing. Rachel said, “We had just gotreally tired of upper management and them not coming to help and not caringabout the employees."
Including the former general manager of the restaurant, otheremployees had also put up a two-week notice in June. Further, she also addedthat the schedule was hectic, the outlet lacked staff and the general managerwas very argumentative, “loud and crazy”. She also told that during the summermonths, the temperature reached up to the mid-90s and it was really hot in the kitchenas the AC wasn’t working.
According to the reports, she said that the employees aredehydrated as the management took three or four weeks to fix this issue. "Inthe beginning of the summer when it was extremely hot, it would be extremelyhot in the kitchen because the AC wasn't working and temperatures were reachingthe mid-90s most days. It was causing a lot of issues with employees, they weregetting dehydrated. That took three or four weeks to get fixed. One of the daysI was extremely delirious, I was very dehydrated.”
On complaining about the difficulties, the boss said thatshe was being a kid and was making excuses. Due to the dehydration, Rachaelended up in the hospital "I ended up going to the hospital that night fordehydration. I had to get IV fluids and everything. I had called my boss' bossand I told him how I was treated, how my boss hung up on me and everything hesaid to me, and he said I was lying, that he never said that."
After the sign was put up, she was fired from herposition and just in days was told to leave her position. She explained thatthis was a genuine apology for the customers stating, “We also wanted to give agenuine apology to the customers because quite a few people have worked therefor years...Part of it was a genuine apology for customers and the ‘We allquit' was to upper management."
On the post, a lot of people reacted one of them said, “Congratulationsto you and your comrades! From Florida." "All the way from Charlotte,NC we salute you,"
One of them said, “All the way here in Virginia we seeit. Never let any employer abuse their power of authority for profit. Good foryou and the others for taking action."
Some people also gave them an invitation to work in someother location, one of them said, “Texas supports you and invites you toWhat-A-Burger."