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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is 18 and started a summer job in May. She’s working at a restaurant. Her manager has basically told her he’s going to let her go soon because she’s on the phone too much during shifts.
From what I understand it’s not social media, she doesn’t really use social media,she’s just constantly FaceTiming/calling her boyfriend during work. Apparently it’s been going on for weeks and she’s been warned multiple times, but it hasn’t changed enough so now they’re at the point of letting her go.

I only just found out it’s this serious.
Part of me gets it — obviously you can’t be on your phone during a shift like that. But part of me is also frustrated because now she’s basically going to be at home all summer (until September) on her phone.

She’s upset and says she didn’t think it was “that bad,” but clearly it was. She says her boyfriend kept calling her, and she didn’t want to say no.
I’m not sure what the right move is here. Do I just let the consequences happen and hope she learns from it, or is there something she can do at this point with the manager to try to fix it and not lose the job? I don’t want her just sitting at home glued to her phone all summer either.

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Quit job immediately.
Tell manager its her problem now that they are short handed.
Buh bye.[/quote]

I’m sure they’d be fine with her leaving.  I hate going into a restaurant only to be greeted with silence because the host is texting.   It’s a terrible impression of the restaurant and for people being there the first time they might not want to go back.

She should have only needed to be told once and shut off her phone.  Something is off with her.   [/quote]

This is off topic but oh how I long for the restaurant of the future where I sit down, choose food on the screen, robot brings it to me, I pay using the screen and I leave. No tip, no hassle, no useless hostesses whose only function is to try and seat you at the worst table, no useless waiters expecting 20% tip!
Sorry, got carried away [/quote]

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