This emmployee just found out that both his parents left him forever. He even didn’t have enough time to m0urn them and unfortunately he had his job taken away too.
Losing both parents for any reasons all makes someone person extremely miserable and desperate. At this time, their job may be the last thing on their mind because they know that might be the only stable thing remaining in their life for the time being. So what happens when that too gets pulled out from under their feet? That is also what 22-year-old employee had to go through.
Reportedly, this 22-year-old employee’s company sacked him for his poor performance a mere two weeks after he returned from a leave of absence to deal with the sudden loss of his parents. The Vice President, who was responsible for firing the employee, then took to Reddit anonymously in order to find whether it was wrong to have done so.
The post caused a controversies on Reddit. Here are some comments:
“Seriously, WTAF. It’s been ‘a couple weeks’ and you all decide to fire him with no warning, no PIP, nothing? Not only are you an a******, but so is everyone else who was involved in this decision,”
“The poor guy (he’s my age, I would seriously underperform for months if I lost my parents all of a sudden) lost his parents and you give him a few weeks to get over it? Please. Now you guys left him without a family and without a steady job. Did you at least talk about it to him? Warning him? Jfc,”
“YTA (You’re the a******). Without a doubt. You gave him 2-3 weeks after he came back before you fired him? That’s not enough time to start underperforming and be fired for someone who DIDN’T experience such a tragedy. If you really cared or were a decent company, you’d find him a mentor, maybe start pulling him aside and coaching him, find ways to bring up the problems but making it work for you both for at least a couple months. Wow.”
Soon after this post received immense backlash, the VP posted an update saying, “Holy f*** this blew up, I know this was shitty of me now. And I reached out to him to see how he’s holding up. He’s staying at his gf’s place and she’s supporting him a lot right now. I offered to get my head hunter friend in touch with him when he’s ready and he accepted.”
Source: Reddit
