A few years ago when I worked in lower level management at a small food franchise. We employed delivery drivers and we had recently hired this girl, now she wasn't the best at her job shes a fucking delivery driver for a deli so who could really fault her. She had previously experienced health issues so she was very observant of how she was feeling. One day in particular on the clock she goes to our GM ( who mind you is an intense Libertarian) and lets him know that she is in terrible pain and needs to go to urgent care, he says that will probably be fine but just let him know when she'll be coming back… umm okay dude
Hours later i get snapchats from her roommate in the ER, i guess urgent care told my coworker to immediately go to the hospital because something was seriously wrong and her roommate came to make sure she was okay. I dont remember what the issue was exactly but I remember it had something to do with her abdomen and she needed immediate surgey for it or she would go into sepsis. When i informed my GM of the situation he started to get all pissy and say she was probably lying, i showed him the pictures and he stopped bringing it up.
I found out from her that he stopped bringing it up to me because he was blowing up her phone with calls and texts asking what time she would be back that day and that she would need hospital documentation. Like cmon man she is going into emergency surgery. he ended up firing her when her after care took longer than he thought it should, two days…
tl;dr
My asshat old gm fired one of my coworkers because she had to receive emergency surgery when she was scheduled to work that day and blew up her phone the whole time she was in the ER.