So this happened a couple months ago but I need somewhere to vent and this feels like a good place.
So I worked for an Ama*on subsidiary called Hyve Solutions, they build custom server networks so its pretty precise and detailed work. The place is an understaffed shitshow and the hours are basically torture, but hey, it pays well, so I grin and bear my 4am alarm for 8 months.
I started having some fairly serious health issues (causes unknown) and ended up in hospital 4 times in the following 6 months (being kept in multiple nights).
2 MRi scans, 1 ct, x-rays and a shit-ton of blood tests later, nhs still don't have a clue what's wrong but by this point I'm almost 40lbs underweight and understandably stressed ( I'm 6ft 4 and weighed just under 9 stone)
Specialist advises me to take a holiday, so I go through all the motions and book myself 2 weeks off.
First week of my holiday I end up in hospital again, 3rd night in hospital, literally 4 hours after I've come out of surgery on my swollen pancreas, I get a phone call from HR.
Because the hospital couldn't figure out the cause, (all my doctors notes showed the diagnosis as '? Cyclical comiting') HR decided all the days I'd spent in hospital were 'unexplained abscenses' and made me redundant on the spot, literally over the phone whilst I'm laying on a hospital bed full of morphine…
Is this even legal?
TL;DR screw Amazon and anyone even remotely related to them.