I’ve been working at TGI Fridays for about two years and about 2-3 weeks ago I was fired.
I held ten different job descriptions there, but mainly I was a server, line cook, and a steward. Now being our steward, I ordered all the product, checked in all the boxes that came in, and put everything away in the freezer and cooler. I was fired because a week prior to my termination I checked in a box that I thought was there. I would have about 300 boxes averaging 30lbs a piece in my freezer and cooler, and with so much volume I recognized the products by the box, since it was impossible to look for each and every label on the boxes and open every box. Now I thought a certain box was a box of doughnuts when it was actually a box of cheese. I offered to pay for the missing box which held a value of $30 but my general manager said no. The week before that I ordered two cases of whipped cream which had a value of $30 but I was given two boxes of colby cheese picked as whipped cream that holds a $190 value, so I made my store $160 in food cost.
My general manager told me that I wasn’t doing my job at all, and didn’t check anything in because I made one mistake in my two years there.
I made her give me a copy of my termination and her own statement. On the termination sheet she documented a voluntary termination meaning that I quit, there were no documented warnings, and on her statement she said that I was selling cell phones in the dining room while I was on the clock, and im eligible for re-hire. At the time I was working two jobs, TGI Fridays and at T-Mobile. Now its impossible for me to sell a phone outside of T-Mobile because I need the phone, a computer to activate the phone, and a credit card machine to pay for the item and to also make an imprint of the card. Mind you if I took a phone out of the store I would be fired for stealing and what not. On this particular day a friend of mine stopped in to give me a title to a car I bought from him. She also wrote that due to my lack of dedication I needed to be terminated, and because I was fired I lost my paid vacation. She also made another false claim that I would leave for hours. I don’t have a car on the road, my gf drops me off at work and picks me up, so where the hell would I go?
A week after my termination I went into the restaurant and asked a different manager for my regional manager’s phone number, and he said that my termination was rightful and wouldn’t give me his number.
I got shafted hardcore and need some advice. Help!!
