TL;DR, Blatant attempt at nepotism backfires instantly
As the title implies, my wife got terminated at 1:00pm Central daylight time. She was a store manager for a beauty supply chain I will not name; so let's call them Salimeh Beauty. They claimed that she was stealing time when she corrected hers and her employees missed time clock punches. You know, that totally normal thing that every US based company in existence has practiced for the better part of 40 years?
So let me give you some background on my wife. She has been a manager at this company for 3 years. In that time she has successfully taken bottom 10 stores and made them number one; basically overnight. She has never gotten so much as a verbal, has never taken a vacation, has run multiple stores at once as a direct manager, and has trained probably the better part of 65% of the retail employees in this region of the country.
So the company recieves an anonymous tip that my wife was stealing time. In this tip they also recieved a tip that the lesbian couple employed at the store was hooking up in the back room, and the two heterosexual couples were regularly spending time off the clock in the back room. Interestingly, the sole survivor of this report was the employee that was announced to be the new manager of the store at 1:02pm Central Daylight time.
The district manager comes in, hemming and hawing about how this isn't something she wanted to do, and “SHE KNOWS MY WIFE AND I JUST HAD A BABY“. Yet she still unceremoniously fired my wife on the spot
By 1:15pm everyone aside from the new manager had walked out. Some with choice words, some feigning two weeks notice, and one other hearing about it through text and just abandoning her next shift! Talk about solidarity!
My wife is a bona-fide bad ass.