Today, I was fired from my catering job for pointing out the unsafe food conditions. I'm studying food safety in college. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was fired from the restaurant I work at because I missed my shift. I missed it because I was in the hospital for food poisoning from the meal I ate at work last night. FML
Today, I was fired from my job as a waitress, all because someone complained there was too much seasoning in their food. As I said, I'm a waitress. This happened the same week I was hired. FML
Today, after 8 months of being belittled and treated like trash at my job as a prep cook in a high-end kitchen, I stood up for myself to the line cooks. Not only did everyone laugh at me, I got fired for causing a scene during service and insubordination. FML
Today I was fired from my job. They fired me because they couldn't work around my college schedule. The only reason they hired me was because they were looking for college students and without a job I can't go back to school. FML
Today, I was out having a nice dinner to celebrate being hired for a job I was really excited for after two places didn't work out in a year. In the middle of dinner, I got an email from the director informing me that the school has to close due to lead levels in the building. FML
Today, I was fired without warning from my job because I was not consulting my boss about things like washing dishes and throwing away garbage. Basically, I was fired for being too good at my job. FML
Today, I was preparing a customer's meal in my restaurant's kitchen, when I choked on my own saliva and went into a coughing fit. The head chef, who's always hated my guts, accused me of trying to hock a loogie into the meal and fired me on the spot. FML
Today, I was training for my new job at a restaurant. As part of training, they give you free food so you know what to recommend, and the dish I got was really good. Eight hours later I saw it again while I was puking. I got food poisoning from my own workplace. FML
Today, at my dining job, my boss told me the food was "technically illegal to serve," air quotes and all. FML
Today, I got fired from my job as a seafood manager because an entire wedding group came in and started yelling at me, saying the shrimp was horrible and I ruined their wedding. They showed me the leftovers; they never cooked them. They fed raw shrimp at a wedding dinner party. FML
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blalien 0
Sic whatever government organization is in charge of this on their sorry asses.
TotalKhaos 0
Look on the bright side. If you get a job at the FDA you can close down that shitty company...
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Comments (86)
BlindedxxFalcon 0
Sue.
theta_fml 0
You should have stopped writing after the first sentence. The second was completely unnecessary.
aback 5
Turn them in.
ohnomama 0
This should classify as wrongful dismissal. Though my husband recently told me that in some countries like the United States you can actually get fired for no reason in something called a "right to work" state.. so I don't know if that applies in Ireland. If you have a workers board of rights I would go through them. Or you could be vindictive and report them to health inspection board.
neb_mule 0
Even in a "right to work" state some cause has to be shown. They could lay them off but it means a greater lean against the employer more with unemployment. Otherwise if they do not inform them what they are being fired for "due process" has been circumvented and that equals a major headach for human resources who have to act quickly to avoid a lawsuit. What a "right to work" state means is that close union shops are illegal. It is illegal in those states to require a person to join a union in order to work. This also means it is more difficult for a union to strike and in the case of government employees of "right to work" states typically illegal to strike.
PhishloverA 14
Yes, on USA applications where you sign it will say something like "I understand that this company may terminate my employment here without reason"
p00p0ster0us 0
Department of health would be very interested. So would the department of labor. So would the local news.
Moemoemoe_fml 0
That sort of gross situation happens more often than you'd think. :( Horrible anecdote ahead: At one of my previous jobs, I kept getting yelled at whenever the cooks or the manager caught me washing the cups. They were all unanimous about the fact that it was a waste of paid time to wash them and that we should just refill it with a new beverage and pass it on to the next customer without ever washing them. (despite regular customer complaints about dirty or greasy cups...) I was also yelled at for washing the kitchen ground, because they didn't want people sticking around longer or coming in early to clean it before opening or after closing hours. (Yes, we were told to never clean the kitchen, regardless of the dirt piling up and water etc. making mud in the ground... That restaurant was surreal. The employees were supposed to get free food during lunch break etc, but due to the unsanitary conditions very quickly I would refuse anything not cooked by me or served on something not washed by me.) You can guess I didn't stick around long, but before I ditched the place I was delighted to find out the health inspectors were looking into them and they were in trouble. :) Sadly, since then I found out that while that place was definitely out of the norm, disgusting conditions and "cups don't need to be washed!" and other such things are frequent in a ton of other establishments... Makes you not want to eat out.
f0rg3t_m3_n0t 0
Cartman: Well, God I guess you got me again, didn't you? Yup, that was a good one, God. I hope it made you laugh, you sick bastard.
sublime93 0
Yeah... In this case i think the thing to do is report their unsanitary(?) conditions.
LesYeuxDeDario 0
food safety ? So you are studying if a rotten tomato thrown on a humans face can seriously damage it ? O.O cool...
RVP23 0
After having worked in a kitchen for just 3 months, I will never again eat anywhere with a health department rating of lower than 95.
Moemoemoe_fml 0
*high fives* I know what you mean, SO MUCH.