A Florida-based employee was fired after being merely twenty minutes late. Read to know how people reacted.
Almost every working professional makes arriving on time to work their top concern. But certain things, including traffic, bad weather, or difficulty finding transportation, can make that difficult. When the situation is such, there is no option other than being late to work. In a rather bizarre incident, a Florida-based employee was fired from work for being just twenty minutes late for the first time in more than seven years.
However, he is lucky that his coworkers are advocating for him. A Reddit post claims that his coworkers have devised a brilliant scheme to convince their boss to rehire him.
“This happened last week and…we just found out he was fired for being late”
A user named No Stop It Step Bro shared a long post on the subreddit r/AntiWork on Monday, 1st August. They wrote, “This happened last week and today Monday we just found out he was fired for being late for the first time ever. Tomorrow I and all my coworkers will be late and will continue to come in late until they rehire him.”
A number of Redditors commented on the post, criticizing the “shortsighted” boss for his conduct. The post gained more than 78,000 upvotes.
The employee was “just straight up let go”
The user also claimed that the employee did not receive “a write-up, a verbal warning or anything–just straight up let go.
The user continued, “What’s crazy is that he is the only painter we have…like there’s no one to replace him…now we will be ‘behind’ because stuff isn’t done because we can’t do it because we don’t know how.”
They added by saying that it was the boss that needs the employees and not the other way around.
Another user said, “Twenty minutes is nothing. How petty of your boss.”
Florida is an “at-will employment” state
According to US labor law, at-will employment permits employers to fire workers without cause and without notice, so long as the reason is not unlawful, such as firing a worker due to their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc. All US states—all but Montana—are at will.