Courtesy: Rachel Flores
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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA (KLKN/77WABC) – Burger King’s motto is “Have it your way” and that’s exactly what employees at one of their restaurants did by ALL quitting.
The sign outside of the Burger King in Lincoln, Nebraska has now gone viral because it read over the weekend, “WE ALL QUIT,” AND “SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.” The letters were taken down shortly thereafter.
KLKN Channel 8 spoke with two former employees who blamed management for the mass exodus.
“They wanted to put up a sign to say, you know sorry there’s really not going to be anyone here,” former general manager Rachael Flores said. “Just kind of a laugh to upper management. “That got put up yesterday before we opened, and I didn’t think anybody was going to notice it, because we did just one sign, and then it went pretty crazy on Facebook. I got a call from my upper management and they told me I needed to take it down.”
Flores had put in her two weeks, and then eight of her coworkers followed. She served as a general manager since January.
“They have gone through so many district managers since I’ve been GM,” she said. “No one has come to the store to help me out. They’re so in and out.”
Flores said the Burger King had employees working in the kitchen with no air conditioning for weeks. At one point, the kitchen reached over 90 degrees. Flores ended up in the hospital for dehydration. She said her boss reacted, saying she was being a “baby.”
“I just stayed to help Rachael out,” former employee Kylee Johnson said. “She’s my best friend. She’s been with me through a lot. I just want to help her as much as I can. I knew what was going on staffing-wise. We were just waiting for more people to come then and we got nobody.”
The two said the kitchen was understaffed, and would often have three to four people working during lunchtime. Flores said she worked 50 to 60 hours a week. Flores and Johnson said it wasn’t safe to have that small of staff.
"WE ALL QUIT."
The local Burger King message that was recently taken down is generating a lot of buzz. We spoke with two former employees about the message.https://t.co/JZNIK4mwNS— Channel 8 KLKN-TV (@Channel8ABC) July 12, 2021
