Since WHEN is the counter clerk the one whom decides whether or not the business will open that day? If the employee felt that the manager’s hours were causing problems, then the employee should have escalated the issue through the proper chain of command: to the district manager or owner, whichever it was in this case.
It is not the employee’s call to decide to close a business for a day. I would have fired him immediately, with prejudice.
“Since WHEN is the counter clerk the one whom decides whether or not the business will open that day?”
Since the manager didn’t do it, the employee is not responsible to keep the store open. The employee does not have the authority to open the doors. Since when is it any responsibility of an employee to open or close a store as you suggest? The employee did the one thing he most likely is responsible to do and that is to secure the premises.
He’s an employee, not a slave. He’s allowed to leave when his shift is over.
First off, he did not decide ‘whether or not the business would open that day.’ He had been there all night. Then after he had waited more than an hour, he finally gave up, locked up and went home.
Do you really think this was the very first time this happened?
And having this happened to me back in the 60’s when I was the assistant manager for a Radio Shack, I’d be willing to bet this was not the first time this had happened. I had a manager who would never show up on time, sometimes not showing up at all. Couldn’t complain. His dad was a big wheel at corporate in Atlanta.
Finally I would just close the store and go to my classes.
So, how long is he suppose to wait? Wanna bet if the manager was ‘sleeping’ through her alarm, she was also sleeping though phone calls.