South Carolina mom of 3 was left to run entire Burger King by herself for 12+ hours

Low wages, long hours, and understaffed shifts are a few of the reasons.

In Hamilton’s case, she says she’s had to stay late or pull long shifts solo, forcing her to choose between showing up for her job and showing up for her kids.

The original TikTok sparked a wave of sympathy and concern, with many pointing out that understaffed fast-food chains are becoming all too common: "Someone like this at the McDonald’s by Rushes and the Starbucks by Blossom Buffet. Girl was in there ALLL by herself at 11 at night. Scary as hell," commented TikTok user Michaila Busbee.

While major chains like Burger King and McDonald’s have made public commitments to improve worker retention and compensation, stories like Hamilton’s suggest those promises may not always reach the frontline. Burger King's employee retention score on business rating and comparison site Comparably sits in the bottom 10% of similarly sized companies.

"One of my employees just quit on me, and they didn’t have anyone else to come in, so I had to work by myself, and close by myself,” Hamilton said.

In response to the situation, Burger King released a statement to WACH FOX:

"At Burger King, it is our policy that all company and franchise owned restaurants require more than one Team Member to be working per shift. We are working with the Franchisee of this location to understand what happened and take any necessary action."

She is being abused by the franchise owner and it's really not cool. People are so fucking greedy.

It's sad to see this happening in America.

Maybe she should aspire to work somewhere other than Burger King then!

At first I thought this story was about a kid left to run the store alone. If it’s an adult, what’s the big deal? I ran a 7/11 by myself. Thank you, come again.

Too many fast food joints anyway. Close them up. Tear them down. Staff the remaining ones appropriately. And no one should be eating Burger King anyway. Gross.

R5 You dumbfuck. She has to make the food, clean, run the drive thru, and the front counter.

I doubt you could run a lemonade stand by yourself much less a 7/11.

[quote] Too many fast food joints anyway. Close them up. Tear them down. Staff the remaining ones appropriately. And no one should be eating Burger King anyway. Gross.

And put her out of work.

What a selfish asshole you are.

Sometimes the only jobs in town are at the fast food joints.

"In response to the situation, Burger King released a statement to WACH FOX:

"At Burger King, it is our policy that all company and franchise owned restaurants require more than one Team Member to be working per shift. We are working with the Franchisee of this location to understand what happened and take any necessary action."

What a crock of bullshit. The franchise model is set up exactly for one purpose: to deflect blame for anything and everything, and pass the buck down to the next unsuspecting sap.

If she's taking the orders and making the food, just don't ring the order into the system and pocket the cash. If someone pays with a card, ring in that order. But cash? Nope.

[quote] If she's taking the orders and making the food, just don't ring the order into the system and pocket the cash. If someone pays with a card, ring in that order. But cash? Nope.

She'd get busted so fast.

The inventory wouldn't match up with the credit card register totals.

And the owners would definitely find it suspicious that the receipts show no one pays in cash during her shifts.

Totally not worth going to jail for that.

Besides, she sounds like an honest person. It's commendable that she chooses to work. A lot of people in her situation would just stay home with their kids and collect welfare.

The sheer will it takes to do that is amazing. She should be showered in job offers

This is how the ruling class wants us to live and too few people are rising to resist.

R13 Fuck yes. She should at least get a huge raise and promotion. She’s a hard worker.

She could use a go fund me but I'm against them in the meta sense. They hold out hope that the kindness of strangers is the solution for corporate greed and slave labour politics

Abortion was her legal option…

In 1990 or so I had a brief stint as a Burger King Assistant Manager. I had to work an 8 hour shift with just the district Manager because it was the last day of the month and the store labor was too high. His plan was to have just us work so no one was on the clock and therefore skew the numbers. The other 2 managers didn't have to work b/c they blamed the high labor on me, the new guy (cunts).