{"id":391282,"date":"2010-03-05T01:59:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=95505"},"modified":"2010-03-05T01:59:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:59:21","slug":"singing-burger-king-employee-ordered-to-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/391282","title":{"rendered":"Singing Burger King Employee Ordered To Shut Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 10 years, shift supervisor Chuck McMurphree has been &#8220;flipping&#8221; Whoopers at the Steeplegate Mall Burger King in Concord, New Hampshire. An aspiring American Idol, he&#8217;s been singing every order for the past four. But the singing server got a rude awakening last week when he received a letter from his manager ordering him to put a lid on the crooning or risk a trip to the unemployment line. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I told him straight out this was going to be hard for me because I have a happy outlook about life and I express myself by singing,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/singing-burger-king-employee-ordered-to-shut-up\/%22%3cbr \/><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100226\/FRONTPAGE\/2260302&#8243;>Chuck explains<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s like telling me to stop being left-handed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" id=\"Redlasso\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.redlasso.com\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"embedId=dd5c3caf-67f2-4f4b-b433-8995d8d088da&#038;pid=undefined\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/player.redlasso.com\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" flashvars=\"embedId=dd5c3caf-67f2-4f4b-b433-8995d8d088da&#038;pid=undefined\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" name=\"Redlasso\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Many loyal BK customers aren&#8217;t taking the news well either. They want to see Chuck and his tunes stick around, and they&#8217;re taking their campaign to the Interwebs. A pair of local high school students &#8212; who knew Chuck only as &#8220;The Guy Who Sings Orders At Burger King&#8221; &#8212; recently launched a Facebook group of Chuck&#8217;s supporters. More than 1,500 people have signed a petition they hope convinces BK bosses to give Chuck his voice back. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Q_ZEZR9Fpqyh6RndHXZ67b__cgs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Q_ZEZR9Fpqyh6RndHXZ67b__cgs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Q_ZEZR9Fpqyh6RndHXZ67b__cgs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Q_ZEZR9Fpqyh6RndHXZ67b__cgs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 10 years, shift supervisor Chuck McMurphree has been &#8220;flipping&#8221; Whoopers at the Steeplegate Mall Burger King in Concord, New Hampshire. An aspiring American Idol, he&#8217;s been singing every order for the past four. But the singing server got a rude awakening last week when he received a letter from his manager ordering him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}