'I get injured and [there's] no loyalty': Employee on disability leave gets fired after missing 3 weeks of work; the Internet calls out a broken system of hypocritical bosses

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 9, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

Companies today are always complaining about labor shortages and how the workforce is getting 'too lazy' to go back to work. Au contraire you silly nepo-CEO's, it's not that there aren't any employees willing to work anymore, it's just that they're not willing to go back to work with no benefits, meager salaries, and to work overtime lining the pockets of a hypocritical boss that sends one email a week for a $500k annual salary. In this case, one man really learned the value of his loyalty to a dastardly boss, trading his trust in the company for a pink slip. 

After dislocating his shoulder, OP was unable to go to work, so he filed for disability (like every W2 employee is entitled to do) and let his boss know that his doctor recommended 4 weeks of leave to heal the injury. Lo-and-behold, 3 weeks later, the man reached out to his boss to let him know he was ready to get back to work soon, and the boss was kind enough to let him know that there was no need. He had been replaced and they were firing him. 

Scroll for the full, potentially illegal, story of how one man got fired for getting injured, proving once again that it's not the employees that are breaking the system, it's the money-grubbing, hypocritical bosses shattering our loyalties. For more insane stories of toxic workplaces, check out this IT specialist who caused a mass resignation at his company after refusing to do the work of 6+ people. 

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    Outerwear - "I got fired"
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    Font - I dislocated my shoulder. Two doctors told me it'd take 4 weeks to heal. I told my boss my progress every week and he kept wishing my healing well. Come the 3rd week, I let him know I'm ready to come back next week and he let me know he'd already replaced me....
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    Font - I feel so much anger for the work industry. I give them so much: a commited schedule, a good personality, good customer service, conscientiousness, promptness, attention to detail, good and careful driving, good communication, etc.
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    Font - I get injured and no loyalty. F ng replaced me while pretending I still had the job and only let me know when I'm ready to come back. Ducking bastards
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    Font - Bandana-mal 8 min. ago Employee: does exactly what is expected of them per the job description. Employer: why aren't they going above and beyond for no additional compensation?!
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    Gesture - sleepingcat1234647. 4 hr. ago Why no one is loyal to the company???
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    Rectangle - StorakTheVast 6 hr. ago Employers: constantly screw over good employees Also employers: why doesn't anyone want to work anymore
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    Font - Salomon3068 · 2 hr. ago Owners - we want you to have an ownership mindset Employees - okay pay me like an owner Owners - not like that
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    Font - NOTtigerking 3 hr. ago Am I a bad employer for replacing that injured employee? No, it's the employee that is wrong
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    Rectangle - Ledeas Oakenbough. 2 hr. ago Temp services exist for this reason.
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    Font - Phoenixfire1691 · 31 min. ago No, they exist so employers can get long- term employees without having to give them benefits! /s
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    Rectangle - spla_ar42 41 min. ago Constantly abuses the few employees who are willing to tolerate them "Oh no, this labor shortage has nothing to do with me! It's the workers! They're all lazy."
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    Font - FlownScepter 2 hr. ago Swed over a good employee and scrwed themselves in the process. The short-sightedness is maddening. Now they have a completely new person, no idea how good they'll be yet, in need of training who will be a drain on the team until they're caught up, plus a pi ed off ex-employee who will ABSOLUTELY talk them left and right anytime they have the opportunity, and rightly so.
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    Font - Haunting_Unit7352 - 3 hr. ago Complete mystery why nobody will work for a company for more than a year Imfao.
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    Font - Postcocious 1 hr. ago You're a bad employee if you string an employee along for weeks (aka, lying), knowing that you don't plan to let them return to work. If you hope or plan to replace them, tell them so. Then you're not a bad employer.
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    Font - Midnights_Marauder · 2 hr. ago I can't comprehend people who have loyalty to a large company. I mean if it's an entire company with only 5 people and you all know each other, it's understandable that your emotional attachment will be higher. But a corporation was there before you and they'll be there after you. Remember the words of The Godfather - it's only business.
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    Font - EarsLookWeird 2 hr. ago I think the point of that quote in The Godfather is that it's always personal Vote Reply Share SandSquare3537 . 2 hr. ago Yeah it is
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    Font - mygetoer 20 min. ago Only show them as much loyalty as they show you. I love the company I work for and would consider myself loyal. Any issues I've had have been resolved and while I don't always agree with policy, I know it's in place for a reason and can live with that.
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    Font - spartagnann 3 hr. ago I was very loyal to my last company mainly because my director was (I thought) amazing at going to bat for us in terms of raises, promotions, etc. Then I was put under a new, inexperienced manager who apparently just wanted me gone, and within a couple months I was fired.
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    Font - KeyanReid 2 hr. ago People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses. Unfortunately, the corporate world all but ensures you will have 10 bosses, and only one of them needs to be an irradiated to ruin it for everyone.
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    Human body - Last-Mathematician97 2 hr. ago Sorry that happened to you, that lesson hurts
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    Font - OffManWall 8 hr. ago I'd contact your State Labor Department, followed by an attorney, for a free consultation. I'm fairly certain what your boss did is illegal. Reply Share 4.1k ShowerForsaken2190 OP 8 hr. ago I thought so too. Thanks for the advice. I'll reach out
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