Indiana Pizza Hut manager says he was fired for refusing to open on Thanksgiving

An Indiana Pizza Hut manager who has worked for the company for more than 10 years is out of a job because he says that he refused a “greedy, immoral request” to open on Thanksgiving.

Tony Rohr explained to WSBT that he recently met with his superiors and was told that opening on Thanksgiving was mandatory.

“I said, ‘Why can’t we be the company that stands up and says we care about our employees and they can have the day off?’” he recalled. “Thanksgiving and Christmas are the only two days that they’re closed in the whole year and they’re the only two days that those people are guaranteed to have off and spend it with their families.”

After Rhor said that he would not open the Pizza Hut restaurant in Elkhart, his bosses demanded that he sign a letter of resignation. But he refused, instead writing a letter of his own.

“I am not quitting,” he wrote. “I do not resign however I accept that the refusal to comply with this greedy, immoral request means the end of my tenure with this company.”

“I hope you realize that it’s the people at the bottom of the totem pole that make your life possible,” Rohr added.

From WSBT