Posted on 07/16/2013 4:18:16 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
How touching: A restaurant owner in Winter Park, Fla., decided to tell all his workers that they'd lost their job without prior notice, and all via a mass text message. That's harsher than a text breakup.
WFTV reports that the restaurant, Barducci's Italian Bistro, shut down without prior notice earlier this month. The owner, Gregory Kennedy, sent out a mass text to employees on the Fourth of July, saying, "I unfortunately need to inform you that I have been forced to close Barducci's effective immediately."
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It was a business closing, not selected firing. Besides, what is the problem with firing via text anyway? A business has right to break ties with the employees it deemed unnecessary/useless/bottomfeeder etc. Texting is probably the fastest means of communication. Now, the business should pay for the text messages, so I am fine as long as the employees do not have to pay for the text message out of their pocket - reimburse them 25 cents. Fair is fair.
For a business closing, I don’t see a big issue here.
People are too easily “offended”. Put on your Big Boy pants and don’t sweat the small things.
I really don't see a big issue either. It seems he let everyone know as soon as possible which is better that going to work two days later and finding the door locked. I just thought it was an interesting article because I don't know that I've seen it happen before.
Well he coulda told them to drive in to work and then told them. Bet that would cost more than a text message.
When businesses close it happens fast. Back in the day you found out when you got there and the doors were locked. Text is a bit better.
Logically, it was less expensive for the text message, as to time and fuel, but it was also discourteous to not tell the employees in person and to not give them a week’s notice or even a few days. Most likely the owner had a clue as to what was happening financially before that day.
Is it ok for an employee to leave no notice by simply sending you a text that they quit?
Employers demand respect but don’t return it to their staff. Then they wonder why they are going out of business.
Right so an employer pissed at employees quitting on him via text is ‘sweating the small stuff’.
Arby’s here in Southern Maryland closed up on Christmas Eve and left a note on the door telling it’s employees they were closed, and they didn’t have a job.
It's also possible that the employer doesn't trust some of the low wage employees on his staff and was afraid they'd rob the place blind if they knew they were out of a job in a week. I worked in a factory once where as soon as someone gave their two weeks notice they were shown the door for just that reason. It sucks but unfortunately that's the way much of the world is.
Is it ok for an employee to leave no notice by simply sending you a text that they quit?
Sure, unless the employment contract demands otherwise, in a free labor market, any mode of communication, if any, should suffice.
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