Employee informs manager he has to miss work due to medical emergency, HR reframes this as a resignation: 'I never resigned!'

Let this story serve as a potent reminder that the human resources department is not there to protect humans per se. They are there to protect the company at all costs, even if their methods are wildly unethical and, in this case, a complete revision of what happened.

This employee experienced an unexpected medical emergency that required him to be admitted to the hospital. Thankfully, he ended up recovering well, but the last thing he expected was justifying what he said on the phone to his manager the day he fell ill.

During that conversation, he told his manager that he was going to miss work until he was fully recovered and permitted by medical professionals to return. However, on that same phone call, he mentioned to his manager that he understood if there were consequences as a result of his absence. This might not have been the wisest thing to abstractly mention. Still, he was referring to perks or timing preferences for future shifts upon his return. He did not mean to preemptively accept termination from his job entirely.

That's right. When this guy left the hospital, he noticed a missed phone call from HR that sounded urgent. When he got back in touch with them, they informed him that his resignation had been accepted. This, of course, made the employee immediately confused. Resignation? Nobody said anything about anyone quitting! Well, it turns out that these folks thought they could twist the employee's words against him and reframe his comments as a resignation. Keep scrolling below for the full breakdown of how this went down!