# Wrongful termination at a job **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 23, 2006, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041 "2006-12-23T08:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![02svtfocus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/02svtfocus/32/7318_2.png) [@02svtfocus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/02svtfocus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/1 "2006-12-23T08:08:29Z")
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!! ---
**Author:** ![redrum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrum/32/7398_2.png) [@redrum](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/redrum)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/2 "2006-12-23T08:14:11Z")
NYS is employment at will. You can be fired (or quit) for no reason at all. Stop working at restaurants anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/3 "2006-12-23T08:18:02Z")
> [@02svtfocus](#): > > I got shafted hardcore and need some advice. Help!! It sucks that you got shafted like that, but your time will be better spent finding a better job. ---
**Author:** ![02svtfocus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/02svtfocus/32/7318_2.png) [@02svtfocus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/02svtfocus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/4 "2006-12-23T08:23:43Z")
Can I get my paid for the lost wages of my paid vacation? I was working at T-Mobile full time and just at Fridays part time. 20 hours of work for me was about $250-300 a week. ---
**Author:** ![airhead](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/airhead/32/7471_2.png) [@airhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/airhead)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/5 "2006-12-23T09:50:36Z")
Prank the shit out of that place! [email=“[http://www.zug.com/pranks/walmart/](http://www.zug.com/pranks/walmart/)”][http://www.zug.com/pranks/walmart/](http://www.zug.com/pranks/walmart/) ---
**Author:** ![avs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@avs](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/avs)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/6 "2006-12-23T11:06:46Z")
> [@02svtfocus](#): > > Can I get my paid for the lost wages of my paid vacation? > > I was working at T-Mobile full time and just at Fridays part time. 20 hours of work for me was about $250-300 a week. If it’s on writing you can. If it’s just word of the mouth. I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![NYSFF](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nysff/32/7353_2.png) [@NYSFF](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/NYSFF)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/7 "2006-12-23T12:27:52Z")
call the labor board and the attorney generals office! They will have to reply to the AG office with proof. And if they BS them, they will get in trouble ---
**Author:** ![2TurboZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/2turboz/32/7577_2.png) [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/8 "2006-12-23T12:37:57Z")
Be happy you are out of a shit job at a shit restaurant. With experience you can go work at any restaurant doing the same thing. Chain stores/restaurants owe you nothing. So take it as a bad experience…dont go eat their terrible food anymore and move on. ---
**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/9 "2006-12-23T12:51:12Z")
> [@redrum](#): > > NYS is employment at will. You can be fired (or quit) for no reason at all. > > Stop working at restaurants anyway. Yep. Most of your min eage jobs they can tell you to gtfo whenever they want ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/10 "2006-12-24T09:38:17Z")
beat some ass… everyone is a sissy these days 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TurdBlown\_Teg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@TurdBlown\_Teg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TurdBlown_Teg)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrongful-termination-at-a-job/22041/11 "2006-12-24T19:29:30Z")
to really get back at them toss a brick in the front window it always shows you mean something then or even find the boss’s car and pull some valve stems