Food Truck Worker Says He Was Fired For Tweeting About Customers Who Didn't Tip
A Manhattan food truck worker says he was fired for a tweet calling out customers who didn't tip on a $170 order.
The worker, Brendan O'Connor, wrote his account of the events at TheAwl.com.
After a large investment advisory firm ordered enough food for about a dozen people and didn't tip last week, he tweeted this:
O'Connor said that while tips aren't expected, they're often included on huge orders like that.
Two days after his tweet, his boss confronted him, O'Connor wrote. Glass, Lewis & Co. had apparently called to complain.
"It was unfortunate but he was going to have to let me go," O'Connor wrote. "The company has a way of doing things and he thought I’d understood that. I had embarrassed him and the company and that was that."
O'Connor wrote that he was surprised by the extreme response.
"A part-time food-truck worker with 300 Twitter followers managed to shame some Wall Street firm into getting him fired," he wrote. "What a world."