This happend yesterday, my close friend, a mechanical engineer with 12 years of experience into automotive field, was let go almost 3 weeks back, due to he wanted raised as he hadn't had any in 3 years.
The replacement the company got was a technician, with 1 year experience in a “local garage”.
Today the new guy made some mistake in the assembly line casuing a wopping damage of ~200,000$ plus he got injured on job , so his bills are to be paid by the company along with 3 weeks paid leave to him.
They called my friend for rehiring him back, he demanded 40% pay rise. ( while working he requested only 15%)
He called me up told me the whole thing and said “see thats what you get when you jackass to run in a horse race”