Nykia Hamilton went viral last month after a customer posted a TikTok showing the 25-year-old running a short-staffed Burger King in South Carolina by herself.

Now she’s out of a job — fired for being late amid her frequent struggles line up child care, she said in a TikTok.

“Bruh [Burger King] fired me because I’ve been late because of my kids,” she said in her own TikTok post. “My kids come first. Y’all don’t pay for no babysitter, or nothing.”

Hamilton went viral in July after the posting about her solo shift at a restaurant in Columbia. A customer narrated the video that showed Hamilton behind the counter, bagging orders alone during the dinner rush. Advertisement

“She’s doing the fries, she’s doing the burgers, she’s doing the chicken sandwiches. She’s doing everything by herself

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