I Was Fired
That Saturday morning, I got to work and said something that wasn’t right for me to say as an employee. But let it be known that I was given permission from a manager on shift at the time. I used no profanity or harsh words that would anyway were aimed at disrespecting my employers. I was simply putting in to perspective (as someone who started as hostess, the bottom, who worked hard to become a server) that it is a privilege. I was trying to show that being a server does not give you/us the authority to treat others lower than our ranking as your/our slaves. These were words that were told to me the night before from a manager. Some of you think I am blowing this out of proportion. In my defense, it was blown out of proportion that what I had said was illegal in the workplace and I was fired for it. What I said was apparently too bold for some.I thanked them for firing me. My stubbornness would have probably lead me to continue to work there. But thank God, I was fired. I ask that