This probably includes your job, dear reader. Unlike in other wealthy countries, where bosses generally have to provide just cause for termination, at-will positions account for most U.S. works under at-will employment, a legal standard that allows companies to fire people for almost any reason-and sometimes for no reason at all. “They thought it was wrong, too, but what can they say?” she says. As she packed up her stuff, she told inquiring co-workers why she was leaving early. (This was 2018, pre-masks.) “There were no customers there to smile at,” Walker recalls. When the 36-year-old single mom asked him for an explanation, he said it was because she wasn’t smiling.
Walker says she’d worked there almost a year without any complaints from the boss. Melody Walker had just finished working the lunch rush at a Chipotle in New York City when her manager walked up and told her, in front of several co-workers, that she was fired.
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