What did management do that they should be blamed for this emotional outburst? Do you know something that wasn’t shown in the video?
It seems as if you’re assuming this woman is a model worker who didn’t deserve to be fired. What if we instead assume the manager saw her stealing her coworkers belongings out of their lockers right before she went home and then fired her for it? That is not an unlikely scenario at all, ive witnessed so much theft in restaurants and bars specially hotels.
What if this is her typical response to things she doesn’t appreciate? What if she’s reacted this way to other things, like criticism, or a schedule change, earlier that week or earlier that day?
What if she reached her last straw right before her shift ended. Should her boss wait until tomorrow before firing her?
It’s nice to empathize with her, but we seriously have absolutely no idea why this woman was fired.
Yep. I like this sub because I used to work in kitchens. But when I worked in tech, there's a reason we cut all logins and system access before we fired someone. This video is a physical representation of that.
Maybe it's wrong, maybe it's justified, but either way, it's down to management to prevent this.
Well if the management were true heroes, they would have given a forward notice. 2 weeks if they were feeling generous but at least a few days.
If they wanted to be even half decent they would've fired her at the start of the graveyard shift or at the beginning of her next shift. Management probably prefers the latter.
But they were a bag of dicks, squeezed every bit of work off her 12h+ shift and then fired her the minute they bothered to show up in the morning.
Sure, they might have actual valid reasons to fire her but Management failed at every single turn during the off-boarding.
In every civilised country with great unions on both the employees and employers side, they have notice periods.
It is surprising that when companies give you a notice well before and at least seems to appreciate your time, employees don't lash out and use the time to look for a new place instead.
In my country, we have an average notice time of two months and it can only be shortened by paying the wages from the notice period as a lump sum or if the employee and the employer can come into an agreement on something else. Note that in any case the employee has to agree or it defaults to the notice period of two months.
Lashouts like this only happen because an already stressed worker is given an overload of stress, and suddenly ending up without any way to earn a living tends to give a metric ton of stress.
And don't get me started on savings. Sure, it is smart to have them but this economy has made saving up near impossible as many live directly hand to mouth.
Word. I’m currently serving my second last week of a two month notice period after i was let go because the group can no longer afford me after shutting down a restaurant.
My EC has been helpful in finding me employment elsewhere and giving referrals for me and some others that were affected.
We don’t even have a union just pretty standard labor laws in place where we know we can’t really get fucked over compensation.
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Lashouts like this only happen because an already stressed worker is given an overload of stress"
or maybe, in this case, she's just an unstable asshole. we don't know why she got fired. wouldn't surprise me if she got abusive or even physical with a customer or another employee.
As I said, the reason for giving the boot might be valid but doing that after a long and hard shift is just asking for something to happen. People are irrational and irritable when they are tired, sweaty and exhausted.
Don't blame the employee for something the employer could've easily prevented. If they fired her at the beginning of her next shift and she still threw a fit like this is another matter entirely.
Again, you are assuming all that. There’s no way to come to that conclusion after watching the video aside from the commentary, which was provided by a person not involved and without context.
For instance, the commentary is from a YouTuber making content for views and viewer interaction. Secondly, there may not be anyone working the graveyard shift who had authority to fire this person. Chefs and GMs usually aren’t working graveyard shifts in hotels. In my experience working in private hotels on up to the four seasons hotel we wouldn’t have a chef after hours, and cafe/room service was basically on their own for their entire shift. In almost every case, they were the kitchen manager, and usually only by default.
We have to work with the information we have given. If the tuber is falsifying info, there's nothing we can do about it. However, what they have deduced doesn't sound unrealistic.
But now you're assuming that she's a chef. I might be totally wrong but I always took her as a waiter. While chefs prep the breakfast, it's the waiters that manage build up the buffet. She propably did cafe/room service over night to breakfast shift and most likely also worked the closing shift in the hotel restaurant as well. A Hell of a shift to do.
So you are right, chefs do not often do graveyard shifts but waiters do if the situation calls for it.
Im not assuming she’s a chef, or even a cook, just that it’s a possiblity that a chef or GM (maybe a maitre d’) would be the person who has authority to fire her, or that the someone(s) with that authority isn’t working overnight . Another possibility is there could be an HR department who officially handles firing and what not, so firing can’t happen outside of office hours. Yes these are assumptions for sure, but besides the info we’re shown in the video, we also have to work with the information we know about the industry (as well as the video and it’s production) itself. So I’m assuming what I assumed based on experience and I could be off base.
But I don’t feel my assumptions are more off base than anyone else’s, and that was my only goal, to show how you can assume all sorts of scenarios. Without facts, the assumptions are only that.
It’s wild to me that so many people have had experiences with firing like after they worked their shift. Like you were working for shitty people if they treat you like shit. It’s sad people don’t realize that sooner, because service industry jobs are a dime a dozen… at least where I live.
You know what’s ironic to me? This lady has another video about an employee who didn’t like being sent home early from their shift so they stabbed their manager to death over it.
You’ll be damned if you fire them early, and you’ll be damned if you fire them late.
One time I had this intern from a culinary school working for me. He was terrible and had no prospect of improving. He was going to culinary school because he wanted to be a food writer, whatever the hell that means.
Anyway, one Thursday evening I decided I had enough and it was time for him to be out. He’s standing at the deep fryer cooking something with his back to me. I walk down the line and tap him on the shoulder, ready to tell him he’s fired.
Well as he turns and says, “yes chef?” I get a sudden change of heart. I feel bad cuz he’s actually a nice kid, so I decide instead that I’ll keep him for the weekend so he can be a gofer, we’re gonna be really busy, we’ll find something to keep him occupied. “Clean out your fryer,” i say, thinking quick, seeing some niblets floating near the edges. I turn and walk away wondering if I made the right decision when all of a sudden I hear a blood curdling scream…
I spin and there’s the intern, clutching his hand under his apron. “Did you stick your hand in that deep fryer?!?” I shout. No answer. “Did you just stick your hand in that fucking deep fryer?!?!” No answer. “Show me your hand!”
He shows me his hand and I can see a perfectly straight line of red wrinkly skin across his fingers, on an angle, caused by him sticking his hand into a deep fryer he was currently cooking something in. Well I give him first aid and send him off to the hospital with a server who drives. Then this fucker collects workers comp for the next 3 months while his hand healed.
Now im all for workers comp, so him collecting isn’t my issue. My policy was to continue paying wages to an employee out on workers comp. The issue was that now I couldn’t fire the biggest waste of space Ive ever seen in a restaurant employee.
So three months later he comes back to work and we have a sit down and mutually discuss how kitchens aren’t really the best fit for his skill set. He graciously quit. I should’ve fired him months ago. The last thing I ever wanna do is fire an employee. People gave me shit saying I fired him cuz he collected. I didn’t even fire the fucker.
If i got caught stealing and got fired i wouldn’t be crashing out over buffet set up. I’d be thanking my lucky stars they just let me go without calling the cops.
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u/dirtyenvelopes Jul 12 '25
Management is to blame here. They need to learn better conflict management and how to treat employees with respect.