THE NON-COMPETE FROSTER

A 16-year-old bakery worker got fired by text, then the mail brought the bigger shock: a non-compete that said she "can't work for any company that sells baked goods for 2 years."

The poster says the daughter had only been working at a local franchise bakery in Michigan for about a month when the manager ended it over text. That part was bad enough. Then a letter arrived at the family's home with a copy of what the poster called an "extremely vague" non-compete contract.

The teenager's job title was "froster." She was one of the people handling the bakery's finished goods, the kind of work that usually means steady shifts, frosting, and quick hands, not legal paperwork with long consequences.

But the contract attached to the letter reportedly went far beyond a typical after-school gig. According to the poster, it said the daughter could not work for any company that sells baked goods for two years. That would cover a wide slice of the food world, from bakeries to places that sell pastries, cakes, or similar products.

The poster says the family was caught off guard by the whole thing: the quick firing, the mailed letter, and the broad language in the agreement. After getting the letter, they emailed the company and the franchise to ask what the next step should be.

The question now is what to do with the paperwork itself. The poster says they're wondering whether they should mail the letters somewhere or file complaints with the attorney general or the Better Business Bureau.

The story spread with one extra detail that sharpened the tone of it all: "Good lesson for my daughter."

What started as a teenage bakery job turned into a dispute over a contract that reached far past the month she worked there. The daughter had signed the non-compete when she took the job. Now, after a text-message firing and a letter in the mailbox, the family is left reading over a document that could limit where she works next, all before she's even finished high school.