Employee gets fired for "performance issues" two weeks after her wedding despite skyrocketing sales and glowing review: 'Your employer is pretty heartless'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 19, 2025 4:00 PM EST

This employee did not receive the wedding gift from her boss that she had wanted. 

As we're sure so many folks know, planning a wedding is a full-time job in and of itself. It can be a challenge to balance booking a venue, getting a wedding dress, and making all the necessary arrangements while giving your work everything you have simultaneously. Within reason, it's a good idea for managers to give their employees a bit of grace as they try to find balance throughout this overwhelming experience.

However, this employee was instead given a stern talking to regarding her performance at work in the final weeks leading up to the ceremony. She promised that as soon as this chapter of her life came to a close, she would lock in and buckle down. She even went so far as to reschedule her honeymoon vacation so that she could prove her commitment to her job as soon as the wedding was over. 

However, all that effort ended up not meaning much at all. Within two weeks, she was unceremoniously fired. 

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  • A woman holds a box of personal items while looking despondent.
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  • It's worth acknowledging that this employee's performance at work already bounced back during that two-week period, and she even received a ton of praise for her productivity. Then, the following Monday, another one-on-one meeting about her performance was strangely scheduled right after she just had a glowing meeting with her supervisor. It turns out that the decision to let her go seemed to already have been made…

  • "Got fired 2 weeks after my wedding for a [silly] reason - is this allowed?"

    I got married a few weeks ago. In the closer weeks leading up to my wedding, my performance at work dropped (sales). I had a conversation with my boss about it and we agreed that after the wedding we'll work on improving my performance.
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  • As soon as the wedding was over, I immediately went back to work - I took no time off and didn't even go on a honeymoon or anything. My performance skyrocketed up and improved immensely almost right away.
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  • It has been exactly 2 weeks since my wedding. I filed to add my new spouse to my insurance as a qualifying life event/life-changing event. My company pays for the premiums for medical, vision, and
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  • dental insurance for me as well as my spouse (and any children if I had any, which I don't at this time) without even taking a dollar out of my paycheck - this adds
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  • up to about $600 per person per month (or would be $1200 a month total for my spouse and i) that my company pays for to cover our insurance as one of their benefits.
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  • Thursday afternoon, I filed to add my spouse to my insurance. I had a one on one meeting with my boss early Friday morning where we spoke about how I was doing
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  • so well now and to keep it up on the same track. Friday afternoon another one on one meeting was scheduled for Monday late afternoon with my boss under the title of a "performance check-in" which I thought was odd since we just had a performance check in the previous business day.
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  • I worked the whole day on Monday and then joined the meeting with my boss at the end of the business day. My boss joined, read off of a pre-typed document a specifically worded
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  • statement that my employment was being terminated effective immediately, and that someone from HR will be joining the call. Then he left the call immediately without even allowing me to get a word in.
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  • The employee from HR joined and immediately started talking about the off-boarding process to which I could barely listen to since I was in shock. I gathered myself enough to ask for more
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  • clarification on the reason and she said due to performance problems. Then she said my insurance will only be valid until the end of the month (12 days remaining).
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  • If Friday morning my performance was fantastic and I was getting praised, how would I suddenly be fired for my performance on Monday afternoon? The only thing that changed that I could think of was
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  • me filing for my spouse to be added to my insurance. It sounded like a BS reason to fire me and they refused to provide more detail on the reasoning.
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  • Would the company fire me if they didn't want to pay the insurance premiums? Is that allowed?
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  • I have never been fired before so I don't know the process or next steps. They said they would only pay out my remaining PTO, but that I lose all the money in my online store account ($150), I
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  • won't get paid out for my remaining sick leave, and I won't receive any of the commission that I earned in the last 3 months as I didn't work until the end of December due to being fired (which is about $8,000). I also
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  • won't receive any kind of severance package. Am I allowed to ask for a severance package or anything at all? Am I obligated to forfeit all of this as well?
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  • TLDR: Got fired for my performance (which dipped down around my wedding time) when I was told I was doing fantastic the previous business day. This
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  • follows me adding my new spouse to my insurance to which my company would have to pay the premiums for ($1200 a month). They are also refusing to pay me my earned commission
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  • since I didn't complete the quarter (Dec 31) due to being fired and are not giving me any kind of severance package.
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  • Is there anything that can be done/are they allowed to fire me like that? Are they allowed to not give me anything after an immediate termination, including my own commission or sick leave payout? Can I ask for a severance package?
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  • • retro_dabble 32m ago Fired for performance issues in an at will state is unfortunately normal. Your employer is pretty heartless given your wedding circumstance so it sounds like that was your final nail in the coffin for you. Why would you want to go back after being treated like that? Just move on and apply elsewhere.
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  • Solid_Mongoos... . 30m ago Most states are at will, you can be fired for putting ketchup on your hotdog (it'll be worded differently). Severance is usually a courtesy, its not required. That commission I would investigate though
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