Chef claims she was sacked for being on her cellphone ‘for hours’

A Manchester-based chef claims she has been fired for utilizing her cellphone an excessive amount of to verify her college outcomes.

The indignant scholar was knowledgeable by her boss at Toast, primarily based in Withington, that it was the “worst day of work he had ever seen” on the fashionable scholar cafe. 

In retaliation, Ms Alcock made it clear to the cafe that she has informed everybody to not go to the cafe in order that his enterprise “suffers” for sacking her after a short two-week stint behind the counter. 

She also said that she informed her employer that she was waiting for her degree results and would be distracted but accepts that she was “not perfect” and could have “performed better” but feels given the circumstances her bosses should have spoken to her first. 

Once her shift was over she was told by another employee that she was getting sacked because of her “attitude” and when asking her boss if that was true, she claims she was emailed and told she was “no longer required to work at Toast”. 

She then secretly filmed her exit meeting where she said her employer claimed she was on her phone for four hours but Ms Alcock says her phone shows she was only on it for two hours and 40 minutes, some of which was before and after her shift. 

Ms Alcock does admit that she was on her phone more than usual and throughout her nine-hour shift was on her phone “around an hour” including her 20-minute break. She now believes that her former bosses failed to communicate with her and instead just sacked her.

She said: “The way he fired me was so unprofessional and he couldn’t provide me with a just cause.

“He met me as soon as and noticed me work on in the future and it was the day I received my diploma consequence. I used to be very anxious. I informed him I used to be getting my outcomes and I may be a bit distracted, he appeared prefer it was tremendous. He did not say I wasn’t doing my job correctly, I received out of each order on time.”

Toast has since reached out to Ms Alcock to see if she needs to debate it and wished her effectively in her future, however declined to touch upon why they sacked her, reviews the Mirror. 

But they did say they’re “taking on board her views and reviewing improvements”.

Speaking on the second she knew her time at Toast was over, she stated: “I went in the next day and at the end of the shift, one of the other chefs came in, It was weird. She said ‘has he spoken to you?’ and I half-jokingly said ‘no, am I getting fired?’ and they said ‘yes probably’. 

“I requested why and he or she stated ‘I do not know, one thing to do together with your angle’. I left work in tears. I used to be very anxious as a result of I did not know if I used to be fired, it was a hearsay.” 

“I emailed him asking what was going on and he asked me to chat to him the next day. I asked him to confirm if I was fired and he said I was no longer needed. 

“He couldn’t be bothered to do it face to face. I’m more embarrassed than anything because others knew before I did.”

In the recording, her boss goes on to say that they’re pleased to pay her however he “can’t have somebody doing that little quantity of labor” so that will be the top of it. Sophie made one final try to elucidate her circumstances that brought on her to be on her cellphone greater than normal and was informed it was not his downside and it shouldn’t have been executed on his time. 

Ms Alcock stated: “If I’d done a not optimal day of work, he should have told me and not fired me out of the blue because of one day of work which was a really stressful day.”

A spokesperson at Toast responded: “Toast employed Sophie for 2 weeks over June/July and we’re very sorry to listen to that she is sad about her time working with us.”