HR tries to fire employee without severance after claiming employee took unapproved work-from-home days, employee proves them wrong: ‘My case is closed’

What is the longest you've ever stayed in one workplace?

We all know that younger generations tend to leave their jobs a lot quicker than, say, their parents. While many workplaces have a few employees who have been there for decades, these types of workers are slowly going extinct. These days, young employees either lose interest or leave to find bigger challenges after only a few years, and companies struggle with maintaining a solid and trustworthy workforce that simply sticks around.

That is how some workplaces might find themselves saying goodbye to a whole cluster of employees at once, and how one might find themselves the most senior employee overnight.

Imagine that–a whole department of employees either quits or gets fired, and you're the only one left. Instead of hiring new people to replace all those who left, the company decides to just hire one, and suddenly, it is your responsibility to get them up to date with the entire company history. It doesn't matter that you yourself have only been working in the company for a few months longer than they do; you are now the senior employee. 

The only question is – will they trust you and follow your lead, or will they decide to follow the beat of their own drum, even if it goes against you?

In this story, an employee took a few work-from-home days that were approved by their management, until one day, that same management was all let go. Suddenly, everything that was once approved was no longer on the record, and this employee remained all alone, facing one new manager who had no clue about anything that had happened in the past.

When HR accused the employee of taking those few work-from-home days without authorization, the employee had no one to back them up that those days were actually approved. But when HR tried to get the employee fired without offering severance, the employee knew they had to fight back. They used every single tool the company had to offer to prove that they did nothing wrong, and just a few days before Christmas, they managed to get their case all cleared.

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