A Nebraska Burger King has gone viral on social media, after the staff put up a sign reading: 'We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience.'
Employees at the Lincoln franchise claimed it had been understaffed for months, while they have had to work in a kitchen with no air conditioning, even as temperatures reached above 90-degrees.
Now ex-general manager Rachael Flores said employees decided to pull the stunt after she put in her two-weeks notice earlier this month, and eight other employees followed suit, she told KLKN.
'They wanted to put up a sign to say, you know "Sorry, there's really not going to be anyone here,'" Flores recounted. 'Just kind of a laugh at upper management.'
The next morning, the ex-employees followed through with their plans, she said.
'I didn't think anyone was going to notice it, because we just did one sign,' she said, and then it went crazy on Facebook.
'I got a call from my upper management, and they told me I needed to take it down.'
In response, though, Flores said she told the upper management that she could not take down the sign as she was already short-staffed, at which point they told her to leave - one day before her official last day.
Flores says the working conditions have driven the staff away.
She claims at one point she was hospitalized with dehydration from the poor working conditions, 'and my boss was upset when I first left the store because I had been late for an over-the-phone managers meeting.
'Then when I told him what was going on he said I was making up excuses.'
A photo of a Burger King has gone viral after its employees put up a sign saying: 'We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience'
Employees at the Lincoln, Nebraska franchise (pictured) said the restaurant had been severely understaffed and they were forced to work up to 60 hours per week in 90-degree temperatures without air conditioning
But, she said, since she started working at the fast food restaurant in August, 'they have gone through so many district managers,' and 'no one has come to the store to help me out.'
She said she forced to run breakfast with just two people on staff, and three people for the lunch rush, and would often work up to 60 hours per week.
They joked on July 9 that they should put up a sign outside the store in the Havelock neighborhood telling customers the store wasn't open because they all quit.
A Burger King spokesperson told DailyMail.com: 'The work experience described at this location is not in line with our brand values. Our franchisee is looking into this situation to ensure this doesn’t happen in the future.'
Rachael Flores, the former general manager of the restaurant, posted a photo of the sign
Her best friend, Kylee Johnson, who started working at the franchise in January to help Flores out, also took to Facebook to post about the sign they had put up. Her post was shared more than 2,600 times, garnering at least 1,300 reactions
Johnson and Flores spoke about their experiences at the restaurant in an interview
By 1.15pm she posted 'one of the original photos' to Facebook, writing: 'We quit cause upper management was a joke and had no care for me or my employees.'
Her best friend, Kylee Johnson, who said she had started working at the franchise in January because she knew Flores needed help, and was planning on quitting as soon as more employees were hired, also took to Facebook to write about the experience.
'When your GM puts in her two weeks, and then eight other employees including yourself put in their two weeks,' she wrote with a laughing emoji.
