Burger King worker fired month after going viral while managing store alone
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A Burger King worker in South Carolina was fired from her job a month after she went viral for running the store solo.
Nykia Hamilton, a 25-year-old single mother of three children, tearfully explained in a TikTok video shared earlier this month that she was no longer employed at the fast food restaurant in Columbia.
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“Burger King fired me because I’ve been late because of my kids,” she said in the video.
“My kids come first. Y’all don’t pay for no baby-sitter or nothing,” she added.
Hamilton said she was not looking for fame nor fortune by publicizing her plight.
“My mind is already f—ed up. I’m trying to keep pushing for my kids but I cannot do this s— no more,” she said wiping away tears.
A month earlier, a Burger King customer shared a video also to TikTok of Hamilton taking orders, making burgers and fries, and handling the drive-thru window.
“I just need y’all to know that at this Burger King right now … we got one beautiful person working here all by herself,” an unidentified woman said while filming Hamilton busy in the kitchen.
“She’s doing everything. She’s doing the fries, she’s doing the burgers, she’s doing the chicken sandwich. She’s doing everything by herself because nobody wants to work no more.”
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Hamilton is then seen assembling and bagging an order for a customer.
“I’m not lying,” the woman continued. “There’s nobody in the back. She’s doing this by herself. I need y’all to show her some love, OK.”
Hamilton told a local news station last month that she was working more than 12 hours a shift to provide for her family.
“One of my employees just quit on me, and they didn’t have anyone else to come in, so I had to work by myself, and close by myself,” Hamilton told Fox affiliate WACH.
At the time, Hamilton explained that it’s been difficult to be employed because of her criminal record, and thanked the store manager for hiring her.
“I wouldn’t have no job because I do have a record, and it is hard to find a job with a record. And by grace of God, she gave me a job. So that’s the only reason why I stayed for her,” she said.
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