Chef Fired before Christmas, Uses Restaurant’s Twitter to Get Tasty Revenge

[kpete]

When you’re fired one week before Christmas, with a seven-and-a-half month daughter at home, what are you left do to? You could give up. You could go down without a fight….

Or, you could get a little revenge 21st century style.

In Oxfordshire, England, ex-head chef Jim Knight of The Plough, was fired for requesting a weekend alone with his family on Christmas. He then took over the company’s Twitter account to make sure the whole world knew about it. Among the many things he writes using The Plough’s Twitter, he says, “We’d like to inform you that we’ve just fired our head chef” and ” Unfortunately he wanted to have a weekend off this month and Christmas Day this year for family commitments so we thought we’d sack him.” When people accused him of hacking the companies Twitter account, he took to his personal Twitter handle to clear the air:



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[TBF]

1. Good for him -

and his employers can spend the holiday cooking Christmas dinner instead.

I have had it with these arrogant, entitled capitalists.

[JNelson6563]

2. Amen!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. wow... used to go to The Plough all the time n/t

[intaglio]

4. Well you know what they say about revenge

It is a dish best eaten cold

[Glitterati]

5. I think it's

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

[russspeakeasy]

6. I think it is, "it feels really good".

[Cha]

7. That seems like a really dumb reason to fire your chef!!