Firing Line: Portrait of a fast food worker.
In high school, Kayla Fisher’s teachers would tell her she had a knack for making people happy and putting smiles on faces. She’d be great in customer service. So when it came time to find her first job, Fisher decided to put that personality to use.
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And text messages sent by the manager proved disheartening. One read: “I just want to tell you all something and make sure u understand this is SERIOUS!!!! I am SICK and F---ING TIRED of hearing drama BULLSHIT gossip from employees about employees!!!” (The f-word was spelled out in the actual text message.)
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Shortly after that message, Subway fired Fisher.
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The restaurant industry is the largest private employer in Washington state and the second largest in the nation, according to the Washington Restaurant Association. In both Washington and Idaho, 10 percent of the state workforce is involved in the restaurant industry, according to the National Restaurant Association. Nationwide, fast food restaurants were projected to ring up nearly 40 percent of all restaurant sales in 2012. That amounts to about $174 million.
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The actual restaurant association figure is $174 Billion,
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Hey, I wonder if there is a connection between having food service as your largest employer in the state and being the worst city on a
Forbes list of 100 cities job prospects? Can't you build an economy on serving hamburgers and pouring coffee for each other.
146,000 new jobs indeed.