Chipotle employee claims they were fired for \u201cgrazing\u201d on shift despite being told to taste test Joe Raedle via MashedA disgruntled Chipotle allegedly employee was fired for eating tortilla chips on shift, even though staff are supposedly told to taste test food for quality assurance. An employee who had been working at Chipotle for just over a month was allegedly fired for doing something that staff are told to do, and they are not happy about it. According to other employees, taste tasting is encouraged by the franchise to ensure that the food is tasting as it should. The employee made a post on social media asking for advice from other Chipotle employees about whether this firing was fair. Fired for eating a tortilla chip at work It was the first time that this person had been \u201cput on chips\u201d and was responsible for frying up those tortilla chips that are essential with any burrito at Chipotle. The person who had worked this station the night before had used the wrong oil in the fryer, and the employee was concerned about how this would affect the flavor of the chips. The employee then claims that they were tasting the chips to ensure that they were up to standard, and that their trainer had told them to, \u201ctaste every two to three batches to make sure they were coming out okay.\u201d Based on what they had been told, the employee saw no problem with trying a tortilla chip or two, but was later called into the office by their assistant general manager and fired for \u201cgrazing.\u201d The employee was furious and stated that this had caught them by surprise, alleging that there was, \u201cNo warning. No write-up. No nothing.\u201d They then added that their general manager contacted them after the fact and said that they were also being fired because they were \u201clearning too slowly.\u201d The former employee was distraught and posted asking other Chipotle employees for advice as they claim they were unable to sign up for unemployment benefits because, \u201cgrazing is considered theft.\u201d Adding, \u201cWhat the f**k dude, f**k this place, are you f**king kidding me?\u201d Another Chipotle employee commented on the post, reaffirming that Chipotle does indeed encourage its staff to try the food: Although it is not specified whether the former employee was able to get their old job back after being allegedly unfairly dismissed, it is clear that they were furious with the situation and will not make the mistake of getting caught eating on shift again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chipotle employee claims they were fired for \u201cgrazing\u201d on shift despite being told to taste test Joe Raedle via MashedA disgruntled Chipotle allegedly employee was fired for eating tortilla chips on shift, even though staff are supposedly told to taste test food for quality assurance. An employee who had been working at Chipotle for just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}