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October 18, 2021, 1:46 pm
A worker at a Subway restaurant has been fired after he decided that a better way to pull himself out of poverty than working a dead-end minimum wage job making terrible sandwiches was to become a content creator, and he found a way to do that on the job. Jumanne Way went viral by filming himself stepping on the ingredients on the Subway counter, taking sips from Gatorade bottles before putting them back on the shelves, and carefully lining up the deli meats on the shop’s toilet seat, among other nauseating antics.
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Way seems to have expected his firing, as would anyone, but says he hopes he doesn’t catch any criminal charges for his actions. It’s unclear if any customers were served any of the food and drink that were contaminated, but regardless Way feels that this was something he needed to do.
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“I just reached a point where I decided I would be willing to take a higher risk for a higher reward,” he told the Daily Mail.
Speaking on another video of Way generally trashing the shop, he says that the food he used was going to end up in the trash anyway, as unused food routinely does at any restaurant, and that he cleaned up after taking the footage.
“I did most of my videos on Saturday. My store wasn’t open on Sunday so all the food would’ve went in the trash because it wouldn’t have been able to be served on Monday.”
In September, Way posted a YouTube video titled “I’m Sorry Subway” confessing to his actions before taking them but saying that his previous videos showing him flinging various items off of grocery store shelves to make a big mess didn’t get him enough of an audience to be a “full time content creator.” Therefore he had to make more “controversial” videos, though he says that was not his original intention.
He further says that he knows what he was planning would wreck his reputation, already tarnished by his grocery store videos, saying “it’s getting harder and harder for me to get a job.”
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Way addressed the people who might come across this particular YouTube video after seeing his much more disgusting ones, making the case that he doesn’t see any other viable path to a decent living.
“I’m just trying to open doors for myself,” he says.
Of course, Subway was never going to be sympathetic with Way when their profits are at risk, so they both fired him and put out a statement letting everyone know about it.
“Subway and our network of franchisees take health and food safety extremely seriously and don’t condone any behavior that violates our strict policies in these areas,” the statement reads. “While Subway restaurants are individually owned and operated, we have confirmed with the franchisee of this location that the employee was immediately terminated after he learned of the employee’s actions.”
While there do not seem to be any reports of people getting sick from this particular Subway location, most commenters on these videos see Way as a villain and call for punishment, both from his former workplace and the justice system.
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*First Published: October 18, 2021, 1:46 pm
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