Employer fires 17-year-old employee after they miss a shift due to hospitalization, despite family phoning boss: 'At this point we are terminating your employment'

When the worst happens, you might hope that those with authority in your life would have your back, meeting the needs of the situation rather than taking it as a chance to exert their authority and kick you while you're down, attempting to hold you to uncertain terms of an agreement that shouldn't be in the forefront of anyone's mind. Unfortunately, the world is not quite so forgiving, and you'll often find that when it comes to professional arrangements, your personal needs and the situation presented by your current predicament aren't worth much at all when it stands to affect the bottom line. 

Of course, there are those out there who would seek to do whatever they can for someone in need, whether they have an obligation or not, but those people are not the alleged employer in this thread, which was shared with this popular workplace community yesterday.

This poster shared screenshots of a text message that appears to be from an employer letting their employee know that they were being terminated for failing to notify the employer of their absence. 

A message shared alongside the text is reportedly from the employee's mother, detailing the circumstances of the termination and how the employee was fired after missing their shift following an emergency hospitalization. Relatives of the employee messaged the employer before their shift began, but because the employee did not message themself to notify of their absence, the employer declared it to be a breach of their employment terms regardless.

See the original post below, along with reactions from the online community where the story went viral.