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thomas callis
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6 months ago and it feels like yesterday

Six months ago I was working 2 jobs and had been for a while almost 2 and a half years straight at this point and I had to to keep up all my bills because one job just isn't enough anymore . So I was working at Burger King on airport Rd in hot springs Arkansas and I was happy there and a loyal employee but unknown to me the managers I thought to be my friends conspired against me .but I didn't find this out until just hours before I was terminated. It started on my last day at work the stores lobby drink station had been in disrepair for a few weeks at this point constantly leaking and had buckets for dripping that constantly had to be dumped but today the day that ends up being my last day a piece of the drink station falls off and hits a customer's foot I reported it to my manager right away and the area director comes in to inspect the situation and the shift manager has me go out to pour the buckets and mop the floor when I reach the lobby with the mop. the area director turns and looks at me and says your nothing but trouble because I always find you at the center of it . I played this off at first keeping my cool thinking he's just mad and having a bad day well later on my shift ends and I check with the shift manager to see if there is anything else that she needed me to do for her she said no that I could go after i checked the TP in the ladies room and I did that and she said I was good to go . I was glad because I was going to hang out with a friend who was a coworker waiting for me to get off work.(this part here I didn't find out until 2 days later). That very night The shift manager put on the schedule for the day that I walked out without finishing my work for the evening.The very next morning a regular customer of this store crushed one of the concrete trash can Bens outside in the parking lot with his or her vehicle and this prompted the district manager to come to inspect the property and damages and he saw what she had put on the previous day's paper work and had me terminated on the spot without any notice or notification or any official paperwork . I also didn't have any prior write ups for that offense and there should be a 3 strike rule shouldn't there? The next day I was scheduled to work I came in and found all this out mind you I came in uniform. Someone who walks out isn't going to show up for work in uniform on a scheduled time. I wasn't allowed to speak with the district manager.I tried to reach out to other managers in the store to share my experience and account of things and see if they would try to bat for me but they all ignored me or blocked me on Facebook and took her side Even managers I considered to be long term friends. And I wasn't a bad employee I was hard working and loyal I loved my job .sadly ever since this happened I have been unable to keep up all my bills I've had cold water for the last six months and my storage bills behind a few months and my electric bill is behind one month and lucky me I did have my secondary job and they have done what they could I used to just work 12 to 15 hours a week for them when they heard what happened they moved me up to 38 hours a week gradually as other employees came and went my hours increased but it's still not enough and I'm still looking for a second job and I haven't given up . But I would never recommend anyone to work for the burger Kings in this town they are family owned and operated and this is how they treat their most loyal

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Beatrice Pesqueira
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I am sorry to hear that. My husband use to work at a Burger King. He was a manager though, but he wan't like that. He isn't a follower. He quit cause he was almost put in a similar situation. They wanted to fire a good employee. Some one he could count on and trying to train to move up, and replace him with him with a family friend. That is wrong. They are supposed to have prior write ups as well. The only thing that can get an automatic fire is stealing or killing.

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Anthony Quintino
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Sorry to hear that.

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