According to her boss she had also been hinting that she had got an interview at some other place and that they were looking for someone long term as one of their other staff was going on maternity leave so they were looking to train someone (ie her) up to do some of those duties. So yes there is more too it. You can't sack someone for just saying their job is boring but as it turns out there is more to the story.

Pah, just more technophobia. :D Facebook lives! :up:

How did it get out to the media, If her and the mother went crying to the media then they just added more salt to the wound should of kept quite about it and moved on as now her chances of getting work in her town might be slim.

Someone wanted 15 mins of fame

We got similar companies here in Finland. I have personal experience from the K-CityMarket chain, every trainee or new worker get's a book on their policies, one thing said that speaking anything negative about the chain anywhere would result to a warning or being sacked.

My personal opinion: Just farking stupid. :shifty:

There always is. :yeah:

Poor girl was stitched up by her work colleagues.

Nice bit of advertising for the company....not.

I do this all the time. :O:


I cant see firing someone because they said work is boring, but if they were bad mouthing it in another way, or if they were releasing company secrets, than yeah I'd fire them.

I take from that that if you are doing a boring job that gives you no compensation for the time you spend there (something better than just - maybe even little - money) - you nevertheless have an obligation to feel satisfied and be happy.

Arrogance on side of the company. I personally never liked to work in jobs that I needed to do just because of the money, but had to accept such arrangements for some time. But I also accepted arrangements were I worked unpayed - because the job gave me something that meant more for me than money.

If you need to work in a bad job only because you need the money, then you really are a poor bastard and every minute of working time feels like an hour for you. That is a lot of seconds-counting over one day's shift.

Better idea: Don't tell people who care about that stuff your username. :arrgh!:

That doesn't work on Facebook, unless you don't want anybody recognizing you, which would defeat the purpose..

BINGO!

I work for a grocery and while Management is respectful the customers are growing more and more arrogant by the day.

Thus what started as a job that went by quickly and was fun turned into one where time drags on and breaks the spirit.

One thing that I look forward to with robots taking over the workforce is that these arrogant customers will have nobody to abuse freely anymore.

Things are bad enough for me. I can hardly image what it is like for someone to be in a similar position full time.

Oh and BTW for you "Get an education bums!" folks that want to use such a reply. You obviously have no idea what coming home with a broken spirit is like. And more and more of these folks in such a position ARE educated! Even at times doctorates! Who often don't get hired because they are considered overqualified..

This company is getting one hell of a bad press run here.

Maby she should of kept her mouth shut :haha: ( God What a dumb ass).:roll:

Being held responsible for ones actions is a strange concept to some people.

You take that wrong.

Read, carefully, what Steve Ivell said.....

Ah dear.

I sued to work in a supermarket like you Zachstar. I did it for the money as I couldn't get anything else at the time and had a family to feed. Was the job boring, yes, were some of the customers arrogant, yes but I had the sense to keep any badmouthing to myself or brought it home.

The difference is we have a 16 year old, possibly her first job and from having seen a fair number of them come through where I work they think they are owed interesting work.

Skybird what you left out of that was according to her former boss she had been hinting at having secured another interview at some other company. In that case it would make it untenable. You have someone on a public website slagging off the company she is working for and she is looking to leave anyway. Can't blame them.

The thing is how did this hit the news? Who went running off to the press?

I wouldn't be so quick to as say she was stiched up by her work mates. Given that she invited everyone to be her friend there's a chance she invited teh boss to and he saw it. She also might not have mentioned the name of teh company in her comment but I'm willing to bet her friends knew where she was working and word of mouth works very fast, you just never can tell.