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A Lincoln Family Dollar was left with no employees after the last remaining cashier left a farewell note that read 'We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience'

A Nebraska Family Dollar was forced to close after its entire staff walked out in protest against the miserable working conditions - leaving a final farewell note to customers just like staff at a nearby Burger King weeks before. 

The last two employees of the Lincoln discount store walked out on Sunday, leaving a farewell note on it's front door that read: 'We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience.' 

The note was the same as one put up by Burger King staff in the same city, who used the restaurant's giant advertising board to announce that they were all leaving. 

The Family Dollar store's assistant manager, Breanna Faeller, told Fox 5 News that by the time their note went up, she and the cashier were the only two remaining employees.   

She said issues at the Family Dollar started a few months ago when all the store cashiers and the other assistant manager left due to issues with the manager. 

The store's assistant manager, Breanna Faeller, told Fox 5 News that by the time the note went up the cashier and her were the only two remaining employees

Faeller said issues at the Family Dollar started a few months back when the store cashiers and the other assistant manager left due to issues with the manager

The note was the same as one put up by Burger King staff in the same city, who used the restaurant's giant advertising board to announce that they were all leaving. 

'The working conditions were so bad because it was a never-ending cycle of trying to play catch up with everything,' she said. 'We had five employees, max, at all times. You can't run a whole store with five employees.' 

The quest for new employees was unsuccessful due to low pay and long hours.

'We couldn't keep any cashiers hired because they only made $10 an hour and it definitely wasn't worth the pay for everything we had to expect them to do,' Faeller said. 'They are only supposed to work up to 20 hours a week and they were working 35-40.' 

Faeller said new hires would only last a few days and she even recalled a recently hired employee going to the bathroom and never returning.

The final straw for the mother of two came after her manager quit last week which left her working 11-hour days, seven days a week. 

On top of the grueling schedule, air conditioning at the store was on the fritz and the bathroom was out of order. 

The store's assistant manager, Breanna Faeller,(pictured) told Fox 5 News that by the time the note went up the cashier and her were the only two remaining employees

She says that by the time the final employee put up her sign after quitting, she felt a certain sense of relief.

'I had no more stress wondering if I was going to be the only one working that day,' she said. 'I felt horrible at the same time, I had a lot of regular customers that I enjoyed talking to every day but I just couldn't do it anymore.' 

DailyMail.com reached out to Dollar Tree for comment. 

Fox 5 reported that the store has since reopened since the incident. 

This mass quitting comes after a Burger King in Lincoln went viral on social media after the staff put up a sign on the restaurant's advertising board with the exact same message: 'We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience.'

Employees at the franchise claimed it had been understaffed for months, while they have had to work in a kitchen with no air conditioning, even as temperatures reached above 90-degrees.

Now ex-general manager Rachael Flores said employees decided to pull the stunt after she put in her two-weeks notice earlier this month, and eight other employees followed suit, she told KLKN.

They wanted to put up a sign to say, you know "Sorry, there's really not going to be anyone here,'" Flores recounted. 'Just kind of a laugh at upper management.'

Experts say there is not a shortage of available workers, but people are more comfortable finding a higher-wage job following the pandemic. In May, activists participated in a 'Wage Strike' outside a restaurant in Washington, D.C.

Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal record highs for job vacancies at more than 8million on the last day of March as businesses struggle to recruit staff

They joked on July 9 that they should put up a sign outside the store in the Havelock neighborhood telling customers the store wasn't open because they all quit.

The next morning, the employees followed through with their plans, she said.

'I didn't think anyone was going to notice it, because we just did one sign,' she said, and then it went crazy on Facebook.

'I got a call from my upper management, and they told me I needed to take it down.'

In response, though, Flores said she told the upper management that she could not take down the sign as she was already short-staffed, at which point they told her to leave - one day before her official last day.

Flores shares similar stories as Faeller of poor working conditions driving away staff, claims a Burger King spokesperson said the company would look into.

'The work experience described at this location is not in line with our brand values,' Burger King told Dailymail.com in a statement. 'Our franchisee is looking into this situation to ensure this doesn’t happen in the future.'

The walk-outs come as workers throughout the country refuse to take low-paying jobs.

At the end of March, job vacancies reached a record high of over 8 million, but Sylvia Allegretto, a University of California at Berkeley labor economist said the United States isn't facing a labor shortage. It is instead facing a 'wage and benefits shortage.'

'There's simply no labor shortage when you're talking about finding house cleaners for a hotel,' she told the Los Angeles Times. 'There is a shortage of workers who want to work at what you're offering.'

The national unemployment rate in June was 5.9 percent, up from 5.8 percent in May, but those who have received unemployment benefits during the pandemic may have the 'financial cushion' to search for a better paying job rather than settle for a minimum-wage job, the LA Times reports. 

The unemployment benefits pay more than most minimum-wage jobs, and are due to continue until September as part of Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package approved in March.

'While unemployment benefits were helpful during the pandemic to keep laid off workers afloat, the fact that many are now making more money sitting on the couch than being back at work is creating an unbelievable labor shortage for small businesses,' said Job Creators Network president Alfredo Ortiz.

'The Democrats should realize times have changed and reduce unemployment benefits accordingly.'

The combined benefits can total as much as $600 a week in some states.

It is not just conservative critics who see that as a problem. A recent Bank of America analyst note said the cash meant anyone earning less than $32,000 before the pandemic would be better off taking the benefits instead of working.