This might be a controversial opinion but if I was (somehow) the manager of like a starbucks or something and I had employees making tiktoks on company time, in their uniform, that portrayed the company in a negative tone I would definitely ask them to stop at the risk of losing their job and I don’t think it’s morally bad to do so.
Now the video was to report an incident of abuse or unfair conditions, then I wouldn’t do the same thing, but there are many videos out there that will have a fast food employee complain about like, serving a milkshake at 6 AM or something and that does sound annoying but come on it’s the job you signed up for. Recording things like that can reflect extremely poorly on not just businesses but individual locations as well, and a lot of profit would be lost. Normally focusing so much on profit would be a bad thing but in this situation where it’s so easily preventable by just not posting a video of you shaming customers for the things they’re ordering yes, you absolutely should be able to get in trouble for losing profit for the business. Not to mention the fact that it gives ammo to an already cruel culture of people who hate minimum wage fast food workers who don’t live up to an impossible standard of professionalism by making them believe all fast food workers secretly hate them but that’s another way bigger topic.
I’m sure you all know my stances on how employees are treated unfairly by capitalism, so the point of this is just to stress that if something happens where an employee is fired for making tiktoks like that you shouldn’t blame them or the manager (as long as either of those parties handle it reasonably) but more towards the system where things like that can actually happen in.
Now the video was to report an incident of abuse or unfair conditions, then I wouldn’t do the same thing, but there are many videos out there that will have a fast food employee complain about like, serving a milkshake at 6 AM or something and that does sound annoying but come on it’s the job you signed up for. Recording things like that can reflect extremely poorly on not just businesses but individual locations as well, and a lot of profit would be lost. Normally focusing so much on profit would be a bad thing but in this situation where it’s so easily preventable by just not posting a video of you shaming customers for the things they’re ordering yes, you absolutely should be able to get in trouble for losing profit for the business. Not to mention the fact that it gives ammo to an already cruel culture of people who hate minimum wage fast food workers who don’t live up to an impossible standard of professionalism by making them believe all fast food workers secretly hate them but that’s another way bigger topic.
I’m sure you all know my stances on how employees are treated unfairly by capitalism, so the point of this is just to stress that if something happens where an employee is fired for making tiktoks like that you shouldn’t blame them or the manager (as long as either of those parties handle it reasonably) but more towards the system where things like that can actually happen in.
…Again.