Employee Seeks Legal Advice After Calling 911 To The Rescue Because The Faulty Door On The Restaurant Trapped Him Inside For The Night

Poor OP was afraid of loosing their job...

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• February 21, 2022

Being trapped somewhere and forced to spend the entire night is not pleasant, not evening it is a five-star hotel room with a jacuzzi tub and sauna. The very notion that you can’t get out when you want is enough to make you cringe.

Now imagine being trapped for the night at your job, a restaurant at Walmart. Imagine being stranded, asking your superiors for help, and them just blowing you off.

What’s more, they even make threats about losing your job if you call the fire department. It seems like a nightmare, but this is exactly what occurred to Zealousideal-Ebb-481, a fast-food restaurant employee who told their tale on Reddit.

“I called my manager and was told I’ll be stuck here at least all night long, if not longer if they can’t get the door open in the morning,” OP says. The gate door got seized as they were trying to leave after the shift ended.

“There is no emergency exit in the restaurant, there is inside the Walmart but I can’t leave the restaurant. No windows either," OP continues.

"My boss made it very clear that I am *not* to call the fire department as they will ruin the door, and they will be here first thing in the morning…”

A fast-food restaurant employee wrote a heartbreaking post about being stuck on the job for the entire night, if not longer.

The door on the restaurant where OP works jams, and they can't get out.

OP calls the manager but gets a really insensitive answer - they should wait until morning.

OP asks the Redditors if they have any legal rights to call 911

The Walmart manager said he couldn't do anything about it and that OP should call his manager.

OP was threatened by their manager they would be fired if they called 911. They will ruin the door. So, now OP asks the Redditors for advice.

The firefighters showed up. And they weren't too pleased with the manager's behavior.

The firefighters free OP

OP is free and in their car

OP hopes they won't get into trouble with the management for this.

The Redditors were furious at the manager.

Everyone advised OP to call 911

The Walmart manager should have helped...

No emergency exit?

Code violation

Yeah, a good boss would be in his car by now, rushing to set his employee free.

Good advice

OP couldn't spend the night there, no matter what

They are stuck

And need to get out

And that's what those guys are for

Yeah, that restaurant owner sure has wrong priorities...

All in due time...

Redditors continued to urge OP to call the firefighters

The bottom line is - No one has a right to forbid that...

The ordeal this poor employee went through is simply appalling. We are not talking just about the fact that they were stranded in a restaurant.

It was just a door jam - a machine without feelings malfunctioning. It can be fixed.

What’s worrying is that people let our OP down. The Walmart manager and the restaurant manager played with them like with a ping-pong ball, each one telling OP to call the other.

You would expect more than people. You would expect them to have feelings.

That can’t be fixed.

Damjan