A McDonald’s in Louisville, Kentucky reportedly closed early on Saturday night when a fed-up manager quit.
The unidentified employee announced his resignation via a sign that he hung on the drive-thru speaker, which read in all caps: ‘We are closed because I am quitting and I hate this job.’
The sign was still there Sunday morning when Twitter user @GreatApeDad arrived to place an order, and his photo of the dramatic note has since gone viral.
A McDonald’s in Louisville, Kentucky reportedly closed early on Saturday night when a fed-up manager quit — and hung this sign on a drive-thru monitor
The sign was captured by Twitter user @GreatApeDad at a Louisville location on Sunday morning
The Twitter user’s photo showed the hastily-made sign taped in the drive-thru lane — directly on top of an old sign apologizing for an unknown inconvenience.
Speaking to Today, @GreatApeDad said that his wife had sent him to pick up the chain’s special new BTS meal when he came across the sign, which was was taped to a monitor that hadn’t been working for weeks.
‘I personally thought it was funny, so I took a picture, uploaded it to Twitter not thinking much of anything about it,’ he said.
By the time he was there Sunday morning, the McDonald’s was open and running.
An employee told him that the note had been left up from the night manager from the previous evening.
‘I spoke with the staff at this McDonald’s today. It turns out the sign was put there by a night shift manager who suddenly quit, and it was left up over night,’ he tweeted.
The customer said that he could understand the ex-employee’s frustration.
McDonald’s said it will implement raises over the next few months at company-owned locations, with entry-level employees earning $11 to $17 an hour
‘I used to work in the service industry myself,’ he said. ‘I think that people are just frustrated, especially the working class people who are there in the front line.
‘Things that are in a boiling point where I can definitely see where someone on a Saturday night that doesn’t want to be working the drive-thru — wants to just call it quits.’
Reports of worker shortages have surged this year, with a National Federation of Independent Business survey reporting that 40 per cent of small businesses said they had jobs they couldn’t fill.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in March that the US had 6.9 million unfilled jobs on the last day of January.
While some conservative politicians have blamed higher unemployment benefits — saying they discourage people from getting back to work — others point to how people’s priorities have changed during the pandemic.
For lower-wage earners, in particular, there has been rising demand for raising the minimum wage.
Some companies have made the move to raise wages in light of the shift. According to CNBC, McDonald’s will implement raises of 10 per cent, on average, over the next few months at company-owned locations. For entry-level employees, that means $11 to $17 an hour, and managers can expect$15 to $20 an hour.
On Twitter, commenters have applauded the manager for quitting, while others wonder why one person leaving would close the whole restaurant
On Twitter, commenters have applauded the manager for quitting, with some saying that McDonald’s might not have run into the problem if they paid employees more.
‘Gee, if only Corporations could end this mass-resignation by paying more for jobs, which would also bring in MORE employees and higher quality service and innovation,’ wrote one.
Some found it odd that a single employee quitting would shut down the whole restaurant.
‘Wait, did they seriously have a shift of ONE PERSON at an entire mcdonalds such that one person quitting mid-shift shut it all down? I’m willing to believe that, but my goodness, the sheer amount of neglectful staffing involved…! Whoever walked off from that c**p is great!’ wrote one.
‘”I”?? only one person working there rn? or it must be just a few ppl working,’ tweeted another.