Young man reveals how his boss fired him over a series of brutal text messages: ‘It’s the most unprofessional thing I have ever seen’
A young man suffered ‘the least professional exchange’ of his life after he was shockingly fired via a text message from his boss.
Taking to Reddit to make his case, the employee explained, “I worked at this dive bar for two months, I’m a great employee, I was always early, I never called in sick, and I give great tips.” .
In the two months he worked at the bar, the man said his boss never approached him to comment on his work or said he could improve anyway.
Then he received a text from his employer letting him know that “no matter how I hoped, it’s just not the fit I was looking for.”
“I’ve taken you off work and am going to perform those shifts for you,” his boss said.
The uncomfortable text messages the former employee received from his boss
The bewildered employee was then told to ‘hand over your keys as soon as possible’.
The newly unemployed worker found no shortage of sympathy from a fellow Redditor who said, “My earliest comfort would never be.”
“He’ll never get those keys from me,” someone else agreed.
One employer who commented on the post said: ‘This company is so unprofessional. I’ve always waited for someone to come in… to end. Never via text message, and never without prior conversations about the violation and multiple attempts to correct it.”
The former employee was never late or had a sick day (stock image)
Some argued (wrongly) that shooting by text isn’t even legal.
Another Redditor shared her own cringe-inducing shooting experience.
She said, “My manager called a mandatory staff meeting, made everyone sit for the entire hour, and told everyone at the end… if you didn’t work the new schedule, you didn’t work there anymore.”
‘MarchWhen she had a problem with the printer, we all stood there awkwardly for 15 minutes looking to see if we had any jobs left,” she hilariously shared.
There was very little sympathy for the employer at the dive bar, with one person asking irritably, “who fires someone without getting the keys first?”