'Effective immediately': Employee gets fired on the spot after giving notice to their restaurant job

Giving notice to a job is the right thing to do—when you have the right employer. Like any relationship, the working relationship is built on trust, and a strong relationship that is filled with goodwill should always be honored. But when you know that the person employing you is prone to petty fits of rage—which often include firing people on the spot with no prior warning—maybe it's best not to let this person know that you plan on leaving their business in the next few weeks. After all, they—like so many others—might take that as a slight against them and their ego.

This worker made the decision to leave the restaurant where they had worked for seven months. They share that even in that short period of employment, they had seen extreme levels of staff turnover, writing that they were the only employee who had stayed there for "so long." 

The chef, who owned the business, was well-known among staff for their abusive behavior—talking down to, belittling, and even berating members of the team. 

When the worker let the owner know of their decision to leave, the owner immediately replied that there was no reason for them to come in again, going as far as to email the rest of the staff to let them know that the worker was banned from the business because of "performance."

Readers of the worker's account of events were incensed, and many encouraged the worker to seek unemployment for wrongful dismissal.