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“I was fired on the spot for ‘showing that I was extremely unreliable by having a personal emergency at such an inconvenient time.'”
“I will preface with this: I had a lot of mental health issues in high school. I spoke with the psychiatrist on site twice a week, and the last time she asked me how I was feeling, I (thinking I was being funny) said, ‘Well I haven’t killed myself yet, so I guess I’m doing alright.’ Thirty minutes later there were police officers and crisis counselors in the office, and my phone was confiscated. I was living with my father at the time, and he was out of town for work, so my mom had to leave her job and drive 45 minutes to pick me up so I wouldn’t be brought to the hospital. Having no phone and obviously being a little preoccupied with other things, I had one of the police officers call my work and explain that I would not be in for my shift that evening. The next day, after walking 40 minutes in -15-degree weather, I was fired on the spot.”
—Anonymous
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/angelicaamartinez/worst-reasons-people-were-fired