'She called 8 times in the run of 24 hours:' Restaurant employee no-call/no-shows for her shifts, refuses to believe the manager when he tells her she's fired

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    Font - Posted by u/allyahereformemes Fired Employee refuses to be fired Long
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    Font - So my usual shifts at the restaurant were morning shifts with the odd evening thrown in there every once in a while. This story begins during a particularly slow evening shift. Very little activity at all in the restaurant. Due to this, I was standing at the pass talking with my co-worker and one
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    Font - of my managers when the phone rings. Me: Thank you for calling [restaurant name], how may I help you? Fired Employee (FE): Is General Manager (GM) there?
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    Font - Me: Sorry, you just missed him. He's gone for the night. You can leave a message if you want, I think he's in tomorrow morning. If it's urgent, Manager (M) is here. She hangs up. I didn't think anything of it, just someone looking for our GM and was a little rude about it.
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    Font - About an hour later, the phone rings again. I answer with the same greeting, and get the same question. FE: Is GM there? Me: No, sorry. He's gone home for the night. Would you like to leave a message?
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    Font - Me: Well actually, ma'am, I was the one you were speaking to an hour ago, and I did say that GM was gone home for the night. I offered you to leave a message as well, or you can speak to M if it's urgent. She's silent for a moment before saying, "Fine, I'll speak to M."
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    Font - As she had the night before, she hung up at this. Whatever, I was over it. I went about my day. Around the end of my shift a few hours later, the phone rings again. I answer. Yet again, it's FE. FE: Is GM there?
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    Font - Me: Sorry, he's busy at the moment. Can I take a message? FE: When will he be free? Me: I'm not sure. He's helping out in the kitchen, we're short staffed today. It's starting to slow down but I can't give you a definite time as to when he'll be free.
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    Font - FE: I'll leave my phone number. As I'm taking down her number she's slightly muffled, so I have to ask her to repeat a few times. When I read it back to her to make sure I had it right, apparently it was wrong and this bugged her because she
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    Font - literally yelled at me what the number was. I ask her for her name, she hangs up. I go back to the pass and tell the GM he has a message and explained the situation from today and the night before. One of my co- workers was waiting on food and hears.
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    Font - Co-worker: She's called like six times today. I answered the phone while you were doing room service runs and it was her like four times. Me: She yelled at me for not being able to hear her telling me her phone number and refused to give a name.
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    Font - him she'd only talk to GM about it. In total, she called the restaurant 8 times in the run of 24 hours because she refused to accept that she was being held responsible
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    Font - for her actions, or I guess lack of actions, and that just baffled me. How do you tell a manager that you don't believe what he's saying just because he's not the GM?
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    Font - EmagehtmaI• 4 yr. ago Most jobs I've had state in your hiring paperwork that any no-call no-show within the first x amount of days is a voluntary resignation on your part and after your probation period something like 3 no-call no- shows in a row is considered the same. So you can't even claim unemployment, because you "quit" rather than got fired.

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