‘Where is your empathy?’: Employee gets fired after his girlfriend breaks up with him in the middle of a shift, coworkers demand manager hires him back

Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor

May 22, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

We can't control everything in life, as much as we all like to try. We can do as much in our power to control who are the people we surround ourselves with, what we do for a living, what we do to help others, and more. But there are always going to be things that happen to us that we do not expect, and do not want.

The Reddit story down below is a reminder of all that, and it is the perfect example of the balance between the choices we make and the things that we cannot control. The employee in the story got an unexpected phone call from his girlfriend who decided to break up with him while he was in the middle of his shift. Then his manager deemed his behavior post-breakup as unprofessional and decided to fire him. Two things that happened to him that he could not control. The ones who could do something about this are the employee's coworkers, who decided to stand by him and try to get him his job back.

Scroll down to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of a resident who found and fixed a broken beach, only for the original owners to steal it back.