LINCOLN, Neb. — Employees and a general manager at a Nebraska Burger King quit amid deteriorating work conditions and used the restaurant’s sign to let customers know.
“We all quit,” the sign at the Lincoln Burger King read. “Sorry for the inconvenience.”
Rachael Flores, who had served as general manager since January, had put in her two weeks notice and eight other employees also did so shortly before deciding to post the message on the sign, KLKN reported.
“They have gone through so many district managers since I’ve been GM,” Flores said. “No one has come to the store to help me out. They’re so in and out.”
The local Burger King message that was recently taken down is generating a lot of buzz. We spoke with two former employees about the message.https://t.co/JZNIK4mwNS — Channel 8 KLKN-TV (@Channel8ABC) July 12, 2021
Flores said the restaurant is short staffed and she would end up working 50 to 60 hours a week. She said at one point they did not have working air conditioning in the kitchen, where temperatures reached 90 degrees. Flores had to go to the hospital after becoming dehydrated.
Employees had joked Friday about putting up the message. On Saturday, they put it up on one side of the sign.
“They wanted to put up a sign to say, you know sorry there’s really not going to be anyone here,” Flores said. “Just kind of a laugh to upper management. That got put up (Saturday) before we opened, and I didn’t think anybody was going to notice it, because we did just one sign and then it went pretty crazy on Facebook. I got a call from my upper management and they told me I needed to take it down.”
Flores’ boss fired her later that day.
skeetsauce on July 12nd, 2021 at 22:07 UTC »
The Carls Jr around the corner from me had a "Now hiring, $12/hr" sign up in the window. The minimum wage in my state is $14/hr...
cote112 on July 12nd, 2021 at 21:14 UTC »
I was at a BK yesterday and the employees were talking about walking out. Probably not a cool job
dances_with_corgis on July 12nd, 2021 at 20:24 UTC »
I did this at a KFC in Texas back in 1998. The shift manager locked all of the employees inside so we would be forced to clean late. One guy didn't show up and she was "keeping labor costs down" by making us stay and do the work. We didn't agree to that whatsoever and we all hated this shift supervisor, so instead we all quietly exited out of the drive-thru window and left her to deal with the mess. Another former manager hired the entire team to go to Wendy's across the street, so we all got to continue working together (it was high school).