Let me start off by saying in Texas, to be covered by the FMLA, you have to be with a company for a year. Also, Texas has the worst laws in the country for employees.
I work from home. The other morning.. here is what I know part from remembering and part from looking a records on my computer. I logged in at 9:15 am. I don't have to be at work until 11:30 am. I logged in (big no no according to company rules) and sent my boss and email about a customer at 9:17. This information if what I gathered from my computer. I don't remember it.
So, now, in my head I was working as per normal. Except, come to find out, I wasn't. At 1:15 is when I guess I came back to “reality” but nothing changed to me. I had believed I had been working the entire time. I then wrote my boss an email about a customer. The same exact email I had sent him 4 hours early.
I guess when he saw that he saw I was online and there. He called me on teams and asked me where I had been to which I replied “I've been here” He said No you haven't you have been showing away. I tried calling and texting you but you never answered. I then said (Rightfully I might add) “I don't have my cell phone. We aren't allowed to have it at our desk.”
Him and I, who got along just fine, got into an argument and he said there is no record of me working. I said he was full of shit. He showed me the electric records that keep track of it and nothing between 9:15 until 1: 15.
Then I got terminated. Now, I can't really blame them in the moment. I had no clue what was going on. They had no clue except I was lying. Now, in my head, I wasn't. So, I got offline and basically fell apart because now I am thinking there is something really wrong.
Then it dawned on me that this had happened to me before about 9 years ago. I thought I had slept all day. In reality I had been at home watching my kids. (still don't remember) Also that time I lost the use of my right arm for a week. But, I went to the hospital when this happened and I was diagnosed with having a TIA or Transient Ischemic attack or basically a mini stroke.
So, I went to the hospital and the CT scan showed an area consistent with a TIA and when I did the MRI, it was gone which is what happened the first time since they can go away. It's why they are hard to diagnose.
Of course I tell them what happened and whatnot and silence. No one wants to say a word. I tell them it was a misunderstanding and I don't blame them because how could they have known. But, now that I had evidence I wanted to talk about my job… nope.
So, now I am jobless, I have been looking for 2 days and notta. I am about to be behind on all my bills that I just caught up on and could lose my place to live.
There is nothing I can do. I did have write ups before for being late so I can get the termination. This is also a company that sets the requirements so high that no one can reach them. It is a way to fire you at any time and it's known.
The main reason I can't do anything is they have lawyers and I live in Texas which gives no shit about employees.
So, yea, oh and the company is Teleperformance. Fuck em.