‘You can’t be here; I fired you': Employee gets reinstated after being fired for refusing to buy boss new drink, upper management reinstates employee despite boss's orders

Upper management usually doesn't intervene between bosses and their employees, unless the issue is considered unsolvable. In this case, it wasn't exactly that the case was 'unsolvable', but rather that this particular boss simply didn't have the authority to fire any employee. Not to mention that there weren't even proper grounds for this employee to be fired in the first place. OP was working as a carhop at Sonic at the time, and one day they were cleaning up all the drinks that the day shift had left around. OP found a can of 'monster', the drink. OP walked around and asked if the can belonged to anyone, also approaching their boss, who waved them off, as they were on the phone.

After OP's boss finished his phone call, he went to throw away the trash, finding his drink in there. Absolutely livid, he told OP to go get him a new one, or else OP was fired. Thus began a series of events, including a heated discussion, a firing, and a call from upper management. Scroll down to read what happened next.

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