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By Laurendorcus - 14/03/2010 23:13 - France

Today, I called out "for personal reasons" from work because I had to study for a major test that's taking place tomorrow. An hour later, my manager called to fire me for "not taking work seriously." I then got an email telling me that the test was being postponed. FML
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glorbnakcs 0

I feel for you. One would think that having a test postponed is something to celebrate, but most of the time when that happened it just pissed me off.

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Lythiaren 8

You'd fire someone just because they called in for personal reasons? Really? Even if you didn't know what it was? If they were informed in the morning that some very important matter called them away from work (like a man's wife was having complications during labor, for example...), you'd fire them for calling in? I feel sorry for anyone who ever has to work under you.

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boatkicker 4

My mother got fired for taking time off once. My little sister needed surgery, they wouldn't give my mom the time off to go there. She called in when it got closer. They told her that they had rejected her request for that day off and that if she didn't show up she'd be fired. But anyways, I talk too much. That's not particularly relevant. I read your post and have to say that you're over-studying. If you studied as much as you said you had, I can almost guarantee that you would have gotten the same grade without taking that day off work.

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Chandy_fml 2

It's only over-studying if it's for an easy class. If it's for a difficult subject, that sounds like an appropriate amount of studying. I just spent my entire spring break studying for an organic chemistry exam today (because, yes, they scheduled an exam for the first day back from spring break...after our professor had been gone the whole week before...). I'm glad I earned enough scholarship money so that I don't need to work during the school year because of things like this. :/

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goonie85 0

While I agree that you should've given more advanced notice (you may have really screwed your coworker by leaving them shorthanded), it's frankly none of your boss' business what you do on your personal day, if you're allotted specific personal days. I guess I have a good boss. If I need off, I just ask, and no questions ask, barring that I find someone to cover the shift, or the appointment books look slow enough.

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kimbowee 0

I'm going to say YDI because unless OP's boss is a completely overreacting maniac, chances are OP has called out at the last minute like this on a number of occasions.... enough to warrant losing his job.

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boatkicker 4

If you read the other comments you'll see OP posted and said they hadn't called in since September.

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Hiropon 0

That really does suck. ): FYL; I hope you can find another job.

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SeximusPrime 0

Sucks to be you. But hey, at least it worked out in the end.

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Erindub 0

Thats a lame reason to call out. You ought to be ashamed. You must call out often and thats why it became such an issue. I haven't called out in over 2 years and that was only after spending the entire night awake vomiting. I got myself up out of bed and attempted driving to work, still vomiting when I decided I'd better call off.

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karina_said 0

i did that too, for a concert. my manager hung up on me. i deserved mine though...

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Laurendorcus 0

i work at an amusement park. Youre not allowed to call out any earlier than the day of and yes I tried trading shifts before I called out. You would think they could have had one of the other 10,000 employees fill my shift when I first had requested the day off, but instead they denied my request because if was for a "spring break weekened" so it was busy. I tried to get it off ahead of time, I promise

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Laurendorcus 0

and at my job they only give you the options of calling out "sick", "personal", or "transportation problems". Those are the only reasons they'll accept.

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