![Wagie Is Trapped in a Subway Restaurant & Boss Says They'll Be Fired for Calling Fire Department to Break the Door [944x1323 - 262KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/EijsMe.jpg){kind=link}
So the managers of the Walmart and the McDonalds are unwilling to come in at night even when an emergency situation like this arises, but they expect and even demand that the employee stay there all night to save them from having a broken gate? When the gate is obviously defective already?
I bet there are a bunch of lawyers just salivating at the thought of getting to sue those fuckers.
They don't even have to come in. They could call a 24/7 locksmith. Even if the locksmith can't get the gate open, the $300 charge is nothing compared to showing some god damn effort when it comes to impending legal trouble for having an employee trapped in your fucking restaurant.
This situation is so absurd, so fucking mindblowing, it was hard for me to comprehend. I thought it might be fake at first. I actually knew a guy who managed a few Subway stores- he was ALWAYS within at about a 2-3 hour drive to any of the locations, just in case something came up that needed his attention. He would often have to quickly leave when we were hanging out, to go help some teenaged employee get a ride home or some shit. His employees loved him, but he was also extremely stressed out.
It sounds like the manager in this case was extremely stressed out, to the point of burnout. He put himself into a position where he was unable to get to one of his locations. He was unable to contact another employee and ask them to go help. He didn't even consider a locksmith or contacting corporate and getting direct approval to have the fire department bust their way in... or maybe his boss might have had an easy solution. Could've been something as silly as "Oh, it's these new doors we just started using, sometimes they get stuck- you have to pull right on this part and then lift and it should come right up".
Instead, this manager threw away his career and likely ruined himself. He was more willing to let an employee remain TRAPPED in his store than he was to get a stern talking-to for having the door broken by the FD. And in some states, telling someone not to call emergency services when they are in an emergency (this was absolutely an emergency situation) is a pretty serious crime. Could treat this almost like a kidnapping.
Or putting down the soy and showing up with some tools. A crowbar will work great if it's a little stuck, and if it's really stuck an oscilating multitool or angle grinder will have those hinges off in a jiffy. And new hinges are a whole lot cheaper than a locksmith.
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