'He asked why I was back since he fired me': Guy gets fired by manager for throwing away his soda, gets reinstated by manager's boss

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 25, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Getting unjustly fired has never felt so good. Here, we have a fast food employee who saw a half-finished soda can and asked everyone working, including his manager, if it belonged to anyone before he tossed it in the trash before the end of his shift. Apparently, his direct manager was not paying attention because he was too busy talking on the phone with his girlfriend while on the clock. So, when he was done with his personal call, he went looking for his soda only to learn that it had been thrown away.

Instead of letting it go like a normal person, this manager decided to throw a temper tantrum directed at the employee, accusing him of insubordination. He ended up giving the employee an ultimatum: go get the manager a new soda or go home entirely and never return. Well, it turns out that this dude was not in a position to fire anyone; that would be the job of the general manager, his supervisor. When he found out what went wrong here, he immediately reinstated the employee. One can imagine what a glorious moment that was for the employee to return to work and inform his manager that he couldn't be dismissed like that.

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    TAUNE "Buy a new one, or go home" MONSTER
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    Posted by u/HuffPuff92 1 day ago Buy a new one, or go home MOC I used to work at sonic as a carhop. I usually worked 4/5 to close.
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    One day I was cleaning up all the drinks the day shift left around, and I found a can of monster. I grabbed it, and walked around and asked everybody who was working. The manager, Robert (like normal) was talking to his girlfriend on the phone (assuming based off all the sQ talk).
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    When I asked if it was his, he looked right at me, shook his head and turned away without saying anything. After I finished asking everybody else, I dumped it out and threw it away. 30-45 minutes later he comes up front and went to throw away his trash and seen it in the trash. He. Was. LIVID.
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    Started screaming, grabbed it out of the trash and started shoving it in people face asking if they threw it away. I told him they didn't, I did. He cornered me against the wall and screamed in my face that I was going to leave and go buy him a new one.
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    Two things. The monster was probably half full (if that), and I HATE being yelled at. And I asked him!
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    We got into this huge fight about it, him demanding I replace it, me telling him to fi off. This went on for two
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    hours. It was slow because it was winter, so he sent everybody else home (he was cooking).
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    Finally he told me I was either going to go buy a new one, or I was going to go home. It was 7 at this point, we closed at midnight.
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    I grabbed my stuff and went and clocked out. He said if I didn't go get him a new drink, I was fired. I said okay, see you never. Not even five minutes after I left, the gm, Jeremy, called me asking why I left, so I told him
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    what happened. He said the other manager can't fire me as only the gm can and asked me to go back and finish the shift. I told him that I couldn't do that with Robert yelling in my face like that, that I'd go back tomorrow.
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    the So Robert was f≤ rest of the night. Nobody else (not even Jeremy) would come in. He had to cook and run orders for 5 hours by himself. POd a lot of customers off.
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    And when I went in the next night he asked why I was back since he fired me and it was a joy to tell him he couldn't do that. He held a grudge for three whole months.
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    violentpancakes_ · 1 day ago How toddlers become managers is beyond me...
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    Prof1959 +2.1 day ago Can't believe the GM didn't have a chat with Robert about it, saving you the months of grudges, but OK.
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    Bearmancartoons 1 day ago • Should have gone a bought a new one then right before handing it to him drank half of it. You replaced a half a monster drink that you tossed.
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    Geminii27 +3.21 hr. ago he asked why I was back "Because it was only you firing me, not anyone actually important."
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    RealUltimatePapo +1.1 day ago I think deep down, he knew he made a mistake about the drink, but wasn't man enough to admit that he was wrong Shoulda spent the $2 to replace the drink, Robbie
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    Doc_k-9 1 day ago anyway if Robert would still fired you for that you could counter-sue or demand for unemployment because it was without cause/retaliation (even if it is an at will state, there is that they can't fire you just for that)
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    drapehsnormak +3.14 hr. ago You should have filed for unemployment. The GM would have to try to argue about how you weren't really fired and quit.
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    Wiener_Dawgz 1 day ago Perfect example of the Peter Principle, promoting someone to the level of their incapability.
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    CySecDog +1 15 hr. ago The audacity. Like bro I ASKED YOU. We held eye contact, our souls linked, and your soul expressed that it wasn't your monster. Kick rocks at that point.
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