Chick-fil-A worker claims he was made to wear black uniform in 110 F for ‘Cow Appreciation Day’

A Chick-fil-A employee has called out the extreme weather conditions they’ve been asked to work under, apparently all for ‘Cow Appreciation Day’.

A TikTok video recently went viral, after a Chick-fil-A worker took to the platform to share their frustrations surrounding the difficult temperatures they had to face while working at the job.

“When I was in high school I worked for Chick-fil-A because no other job would hire me, so I took what I could get,” he explained. “Chick-fil-A’s biggest day of the year was always Cow Appreciation Day. For anyone lucky enough to not know this, Cow Appreciation Day falls on the second Tuesday of every July and I worked in Phoenix Arizona.”

“So by the time we got to mid-July, temperatures were regularly hitting 110 degrees,” he continued. “And despite the absolutely nasty conditions outside, my manager said, ‘Well we have chicken to sell.’ So myself and this other girl were put outside to work the two drive-thru lines,” he explains.

“Our uniforms were all black, the sun is beating down on us. I’m sweating, but I’m also born and raised in Phoenix, so like, I kinda know how to handle it.

“The girl I was working with was new to Arizona. Her body did not know how to adapt to that. It was so ridiculous they ended up assigning another person from inside to periodically like run ice and sh*t out to us to keep us from passing out.”

Instead of bringing them inside, the TikToker said: “They kept me there ’cause I hadn’t passed out yet, and they said, ‘Thanks for doing such a swell job guys.’ They wouldn’t even give us a free meal to say ‘thank you’ because our staff’s meal privileges had been revoked because we ‘hadn’t earned it.’ So genuinely, nastiness across the board.”

TikTok weigh in on uniform fiasco

After the video was posted on the platform, many were quick to side with the staff member, some even sharing similar experiences: “This always happened in my first job. It was last summer and they would send us outside for hours at a time without water and this is north Texas where summers came be 90-100°.’

“I’m the reason we can’t be outside when it gets too hot at my cfa. I had a heart problem and passed out one day, so my mom called and threatened to get the Department of Labor involved.”

One even claimed that they’d braved completely alternate weather conditions at Chick-fil-A: “The restaurant I work at has us outside too. I got sent out in a snowstorm with nothing but a jacket. Got frostbite and passed out and they still didn’t care.”

Chick-fil-A also went viral this month, after a TikToker shared a hack that had the internet salivating.