Kansas Olive Garden Boss Fired For An Email Asking Staff To Work Even If Dog Died & Prove It
"If it's a 'family emergency,' and you can't say, too bad. Go work somewhere else."
Olive Garden Italian Kitchen.
A Kansas Olive Garden manager was recently fired after sending out an email to employees asking them to work in extreme circumstances, including if they are sick or if their dog died...and they were asked to prove it, according to Dexerto.
The message comes from the Overland Park location and it was a pretty lengthy text.
"If you're sick, you need to come prove it to us. If your dog died, you need to bring him in and prove it to us. If it's a 'family emergency,' and you can't say, too bad. Go work somewhere else," the email reads, according to the Twitter account @f*ckyouiquit, which initially shared a copy of the email online.
According to the letter, the manager goes on to explain that they would come in on time even on the day they got in a car accident on the way to work. They concluded by stating that management makes it easy as they can for the staff to work there.
A spokesperson for the restaurant confirmed with Narcity* that the company "parted ways" with the Overland Park manager.
\u201c"If your dog died, you need to bring him in to prove it to us. If it\u2019s a \u2018family emergency,\u2019 too bad. Go work somewhere else.\u201d\n\nOlive Garden fired a branch manager after they sent this anti-worker letter to employees\u201d— Dexerto (@Dexerto) 1670602560
A person describing themselves as a former employee of the chain weighed in on Twitter, writing that they were not shocked to see this.
"I worked in restaurants for 6 years, 1 of those years was at Olive Garden. Based on my experience of management at Olive Garden, this does not surprise me in the least. There should not be a culture of 'come to work sick' when the work is feeding people," the former restaurant worker tweeted.
\u201c@fuckyouiquit I worked in restaurants for 6 years, 1 of those years was at Olive Garden. Based on my experience of management at Olive Garden, this does not surprise me in the least. There should not be a culture of "come to work sick" when the work is feeding people \ud83d\ude16\u201d— Fuck You I Quit (@Fuck You I Quit) 1670421493
Remembering that one of the many slogans of Olive Garden is "when you're here, you're family," another social media user mocked the irony of the situation.
\u201cOLIVE GARDEN WHEN YOU'RE HERE YOU'RE FAMILY BUT IF YOUR DOG DIES YOU HAVE TO BRING HIM IN\u201d— Jess? (@Jess?) 1670636392
Many users on the app agree that this email was rather shocking. Some people wrote that had they been an employee of the chain, they would never return to the establishment again.
*This article has been updated.