'Mom's in the hospital? Sorry, you're fired': Trainee gets pink-slipped by hostile employer after choosing to take care of her hospitalized mother instead of clocking in for one shift

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Mar 21, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

Employers will always say that they have family values, but almost never put their money where their mouth is. For some reason, most corporations believe that your job should mean more to you than anything else in your life, including your family. One woman, who worked for a small airline in Florida, found out the hard way what it means to work for a company that assigns little to no value to human life. After enduring several rounds of training, this trainee discovered where her company was going to draw the line in the sand on employee 'loyalty'.

The trainee had informed her boss that her mother was sick and undergoing surgery during her training period. However, when she was just about to be brought in as a fully trained, fully fledged employee, the trainee's mom's health took a drastic turn for the worse, forcing her to undergo more surgeries and remain under close observation in the ICU. The trainee was worried for the mother (like a real human being would be) and told her boss that she wasn't going to be able to make it in for a shift because she was going to stay by her mother's side.

Welp, the boss didn't like that.

Instead of having a shred of compassion and working things out on his end, he guilt tripped the trainee, attempting to force her to come in. Instead of yeilding to his peer pressure, the trainee stayed firm and refused to leave her mother's side. Her boss almost immediately and robotically dismissed the trainee, saying, "Good luck with your mom. I'm going to move forward with another candidate".

Yikes, talk about a lack of empathy.