Irish social media users reacted, with thousands of tweets, after a Dublin restaurant worker posted a picture online of his latest paycheck, but instead of showing a check or cash, the image showed copper coins inside a mayonnaise bucket.
The worker named Ryan Cove, who works in a restaurant in the Irish capital Dublin, received sympathy from social media users, after he posted pictures showing a bucket full of 5-cent coins, which he says he obtained to pay his last wages, according to the British newspaper, “Mirror”.
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“After I was fired, the coins were the restaurant owner’s way of responding to me after I chased after him with requests for my overdue pay,” Ryan Cove said on Twitter, then posted a picture of a copper coin bucket, as well as screenshots of WhatsApp messages. Allegedly from the owner of the restaurant.
The messages exchanged between the restaurant worker and his owner showed the fired worker saying whether his salary statement would be deposited in his account or whether he should come to the restaurant to receive his money, to which the restaurant owner replied: “Every cent of your wages will be ready on Tuesday, and you will find Money on the doorstep.
The pioneers of social media criticized what they described as the outrageous behavior of the employer, and said that the method of paying the wages was an insult that a worker did not deserve, and some pledged to boycott the famous Dublin city restaurant in response, amid a lot of angry reactions from the restaurant owner’s attitude towards his worker.