Comment on Got fired over a peproncini today so expect a lot of bullshit for the next couple days.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
how?
Comment on Got fired over a peproncini today so expect a lot of bullshit for the next couple days.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
how?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There was a burger on the menu that was dedicated to the owners daughter’s dead boyfriend who died crashing into a tree while drunk. It got a peperoncini stabbed on the top bun.
A coworker forgot the peperoncini on the burger which sparked him to ask about why it was on the burger. It led to a rabbit hole of finding out he was the owners daughter’s dead boyfriend and my coworker asked why we were celebrating a guy who died like that not knowing who he was to the owner and her daughter.
It’s the dumbest reason I’ve ever been fired since I was only tangentially involved.
CTDummy@piefed.social 2 months ago
I’m either misreading this or confused. You asked the coworker or you were the one explaining it to the coworker? And got fired for explaining it?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I got fired for being next to the coworker asking the questions. All I did was bring up that burger dude died in a car crash and was presumed to be drunk.
Coworker asked why we celebrated him and next thing I know we’re both jobless.
CTDummy@piefed.social 2 months ago
Man wtaf. Why would you even want to commemorate that and then fire people for talking about it. “Enjoy your burger, it’s a memento for the most traumatic day of my daughter’s life. Why no she doesn’t ever eat here, why do you ask?”
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Sounds like might be worth talking to a lawyer on that one
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dude. If you still want the job, you really had no obvious part in the disrespect, and the owner wasn’t part of the immediate rage firing, give it a day, let it cool off, then go see the owner directly.
Just be straightforward and honest, speaking as his equal (because you are): “I meant no disrespect, I really was just there and not a participant, I understand offense was given, but that was not my doing or intent. I liked this job, I enjoyed doing it, I thought I was doing well at it, and I can’t believe it’s gone just because I happened to be in the same room when this happened. Is there any way this outcome can be reconsidered, or is it set in stone?”
Professional, straightforward, calm. If the owner wasn’t a part of it you might be able to change his mind. I’m saying this because if I were your manager, the way you wrote your text would make me at least question the decision, and I’m hard to convince. People do shit in indignant rage they regret later, restaurant kitchens are wild places anyway, and I don’t know this guy and I don’t know you, but if you want that specific job back then it’s worth a shot. Good workers are worth keeping.
But you may not want it back. If not then just ignore this, chill for a day or two, and start looking for the next thing. Whatever you decide I hope it all works out for you.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
That seems like an open shut wrongful dismissal case, but I really don’t know what the labour laws are in your end of the world
Carl@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
In the US? You can get fired because the manager doesn’t like the color of your shirt, or the perfume you’re wearing today. As long as they’re not being discriminatory against a federally protected class, (sex, race, religion, old age, disability, and national origin) it’s legal.
And even if they did fire you for being a member of one of those protected classes, (for instance, if they fired you for being a woman, or for being black), you’d need to prove it. And unless they were stupid enough to put that shit in writing, you’ll need to do a lot of investigative work to prove a pattern of discrimination.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Sweet jesus I have no idea how americans haven’t gotten all french about it until they’re given the same rights that most countries have :(
Genuinely sorry that you have to deal with that level of buuuuullllshit. Fingers crossed there’s some hope for you getting rights and or a government that isn’t actively trying to kill you
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Exactly in right work state you have zero protection. Especially for all that. Because besides having a right to fire you, THEY DON’T HAVE TO LIST A REASON! So yes you can be fired even for protected class things. New manager comes in fires you due to skin color but you can’t prove it. My personal experience got fired once for my religious views or lack of. Of course I was told by temp agency that is was due to not being "team player "
This was just day after I told the bosses brother that didn’t believe in Jesus after he kept pushing religious shit on me all shift.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
presuming you’re american.
no one in the civilised world is fired for such nonsense
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am indeed American and can tell you most people do not get fired for things like this on a regular basis.
It happened mere hours ago and I’m still wrapping my head around it.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
so you’ll go to a labour tribunal to discuss whether you were legally fired? and reach a settlement where you were clearly fired for no reason which the company is not allowed to do?
oh. right. lol.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Oh fuck off
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There’s being right, and being an absolute arsehole. Right now you’re both. Sometimes you need to not say a thing, even if it is correct.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 months ago
Troll much?
blarg_dunsen@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That really sucks, but when you said “pepperoni stabbed into the top bun” I can only picture a slice of the cold meat slapped onto the top of a burger with a skewer holding it.
Like, does the wooden skewer represent the tree he hit and the slice of pepperoni represents the meat pancake his drunk ass turned in to? That’s pretty fucked up.
Davel23@fedia.io 2 months ago
Pepperoncini, not pepperoni.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pepperoncini, not pepperoni. It’s a pickled pepper, they usually come in glass jars