Justice for Ollie Tutt
A Sainsbury’s delivery driver has claimed that he was fired for swearing in a social media video where he praised the company and said, “I get looked after.”
Ollie Tutt, 19, posted a TikTok video on March 24 about his Sainsbury’s job, largely applauding how easy it is for such good pay. The post received an impressive 3.8m views and over 400k likes.
@olliedtutt #fyp #sainsburys ♬ original sound – ChubbyKid
“If you want an easy job, just go and work at Tesco, Sainsbury and do this delivering s**t,” the East-Sussex resident told his followers. “It is possibly the easiest job I’ve ever had, the best paying job I’ve ever had and I get looked after.”‘
He continued: “I don’t do much, I just sit on the side of the road waiting to do these drops.
“All the customers are f*****g lovely and haven’t had an occasion where they have been an a******e.”
@olliedtutt #fyp #sainsburys #driver ♬ original sound – ChubbyKid
While most of his statements were positive, Tutt did warn that working in the store is “s**t and boring.”
However just days after going viral, Tutt’s manager saw the video – and he was not happy.
“That video got a lot more attention than I thought it would and caused a bit of a problem,” Tutt updated fans. “My manager told me that the store manager didn’t really mind but because I swore in that video it’s kind of bad for the company.”
While Tutt did acknowledge that “it doesn’t look really good on them”, a chat with management left him jobless. He was sacked under allegations of gross misconduct, disrepute and not caring enough.
@olliedtutt Reply to @seatibizafr10 lost my fookin job #fyp #sainsburys ♬ original sound – ChubbyKid
Updating his followers on Sunday April 3, he said: “Yep I got sacked and now I am worried about how I am going to pay my rent in a week.
“It’s not a big deal, like they are a multi-billion pound company and they care about a single video.
“Yep you were all right about me losing my job, go f**k yourself. Now I am going to apply for new jobs.”
A spokesperson for the supermarket told The Mirror: “We are unable to discuss individual colleague cases.
“Any decision to review a colleague’s employment is not taken lightly and based on a range of factors.”
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