Pizza Hut - Not Working Thanksgiving - You're fired!

[Palehorse]

Pizza Hut manager offered job back after claim he lost it for Thanksgiving stand

(CNN) -- Shortly after a manager announced he was fired for refusing to open on Thanksgiving Day, Pizza Hut is offering him his job back.
Tony Rohr has worked at the franchise in Elkhart, Indiana, for more than 10 years.
When he refused to open on Thanksgiving Day this year, he says, he was told to write a letter of resignation.
Instead, he wrote one explaining why the store should remain closed.
"I said why can't we be the company that stands up and says we care about your employees and you can have the day off," Rohr told CNN affiliate WSBT on Wednesday. "Thanksgiving and Christmas are the only two days that they're closed in the whole year. And they're the only two days that those people are guaranteed to have off to spend with their families."
Rohr told the affiliate he refused to quit and detailed his frustration in the letter.
"I accept that the refusal to comply with this greedy, immoral request means the end of my tenure with this company," he says he wrote. "I hope you realize that it is the people at the bottom of the totem pole that make your life possible."
He was fired shortly after, he says.
The local franchise told the affiliate that he was not fired, but he quit. Pizza Hut's corporate office told CNN the franchise "made a serious error in judgment, one which we hope to help remedy."
It sent CNN a statement that said the store has agreed to hire him back.. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/28/us/pizza-store-thanksgiving-firing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

So once again we see the greed of corporate, and in this case a local franchise owner, entities "creeping" into the American traditions, and not in a good way.

This is an insidious situation that is indicative of the abusive approach the entirety of businesses are adopting in this employer friendly climate today. Businesses know there are millions of people out of work and becoming more desperate with each day. And they are taking unconscionable advantage of the situation by imposing draconian policies upon their employees; all in the name of the almighty dollar.

This one was in Elkhart, Indiana, but there are millions of them across this nation. The rights and privileges fought long and hard to obtain by our predecessors within the working class, are cast aside without even a minimum of thought or consideration.

As individual responsibilities are being enforced at record levels, and being utilized as a means to fire workers, corporate responsibilities are being ignored totally. Businesses that claim the desire to be the "employers of choice with family friendly policies that nurture work / life balance" have become for the most part hypocrites and liars.

This is a direct result of granting corporate entities constitutional rights without holding them accountable for operating within those same rights in a manner that does not infringe on those of the individuals that work for them.

Many of you will scoff at this story and point to the fact the corporate level of this particular entity has taken steps to have this man offered his position back. However, this only transpired because the local and national media decided it was a story worth telling. How many others were subjected to the very same treatment this year? With businesses opening this very day, our national day of Thanksgiving, tens of thousands of employees across this land are in the very same situation; and many of them will be /  have been fired for choosing family over work.

What would you do if placed into this unfair position by your employer in the future? Would you work? Should you? Why?

Have we truly become a nation enslaved to business and the almighty dollar?

[me]

That is wrong on many levels.  I have a feeling this isn't going to set well with Pizza Hut customers, or at least I hope it won't.  I don't like Pizza Hut anyway but this just put the icing on the cake.

[me]

Heard earlier that Corporate made the franchisee hire the manager back.  I didn't catch it all but I did hear at least that much.  Score one for corporate.  Still don't like Pizza Hut though. 

[Palehorse]

Heard earlier that Corporate made the franchisee hire the manager back.  I didn't catch it all but I did hear at least that much.  Score one for corporate.  Still don't like Pizza Hut though.

Guess you missed this too. . .

Pizza Hut manager offered job back after claim he lost it for Thanksgiving stand

(CNN) -- Shortly after a manager announced he was fired for refusing to open on Thanksgiving Day, Pizza Hut is offering him his job back.
Tony Rohr has worked at the franchise in Elkhart, Indiana, for more than 10 years.
When he refused to open on Thanksgiving Day this year, he says, he was told to write a letter of resignation.
Instead, he wrote one explaining why the store should remain closed.
"I said why can't we be the company that stands up and says we care about your employees and you can have the day off," Rohr told CNN affiliate WSBT on Wednesday. "Thanksgiving and Christmas are the only two days that they're closed in the whole year. And they're the only two days that those people are guaranteed to have off to spend with their families."
Rohr told the affiliate he refused to quit and detailed his frustration in the letter.
"I accept that the refusal to comply with this greedy, immoral request means the end of my tenure with this company," he says he wrote. "I hope you realize that it is the people at the bottom of the totem pole that make your life possible."
He was fired shortly after, he says.
The local franchise told the affiliate that he was not fired, but he quit. Pizza Hut's corporate office told CNN the franchise "made a serious error in judgment, one which we hope to help remedy."
It sent CNN a statement that said the store has agreed to hire him back.. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/28/us/pizza-store-thanksgiving-firing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

So once again we see the greed of corporate, and in this case a local franchise owner, entities "creeping" into the American traditions, and not in a good way.

This is an insidious situation that is indicative of the abusive approach the entirety of businesses are adopting in this employer friendly climate today. Businesses know there are millions of people out of work and becoming more desperate with each day. And they are taking unconscionable advantage of the situation by imposing draconian policies upon their employees; all in the name of the almighty dollar.

This one was in Elkhart, Indiana, but there are millions of them across this nation. The rights and privileges fought long and hard to obtain by our predecessors within the working class, are cast aside without even a minimum of thought or consideration.

As individual responsibilities are being enforced at record levels, and being utilized as a means to fire workers, corporate responsibilities are being ignored totally. Businesses that claim the desire to be the "employers of choice with family friendly policies that nurture work / life balance" have become for the most part hypocrites and liars.

This is a direct result of granting corporate entities constitutional rights without holding them accountable for operating within those same rights in a manner that does not infringe on those of the individuals that work for them.

Many of you will scoff at this story and point to the fact the corporate level of this particular entity has taken steps to have this man offered his position back. However, this only transpired because the local and national media decided it was a story worth telling. How many others were subjected to the very same treatment this year? With businesses opening this very day, our national day of Thanksgiving, tens of thousands of employees across this land are in the very same situation; and many of them will be /  have been fired for choosing family over work.

What would you do if placed into this unfair position by your employer in the future? Would you work? Should you? Why?

Have we truly become a nation enslaved to business and the almighty dollar?

[The Troll]

  Oh they will hire him back to fire him later on another charge.   We had a foreman fired at Ford over a trumped up charge, he went to World Headquarters in Detroit and got his job back.  But the management over him made the atmosphere so bad he went back to hourly and being in the union.   

[me]

Guess you missed this too. . .

I was busy so I didn't catch it all, just mainly the part where he explained what happened and said corporate made the franchisee hire him back. 

[Y]

Though I don't agree with 'Blue Laws', I miss the days when everything was closed on Sundays and Holidays.

I think it was good policy, and should be enlightened policy now.

[Anne]

Though I don't agree with 'Blue Laws', I miss the days when everything was closed on Sundays and Holidays.

I think it was good policy, and should be enlightened policy now.

Why?  I think it was better because it gave families time together, something that doesn't seem to happen much anymore, but I would be interested to hear your reasons.