So I worked at a small healthcare staffing company. I would’ve been there for 2 years in August. Two of my good friends started in March/April as my previous coworker quit and I referred my friends since I didn’t want to sit in the small office with another stranger or two again. We will call one E and the other M. They both got the jobs and everything was awesome, I enjoyed going to work and it didn’t feel like it was such a huge bother in my life anymore. I’m getting married this year and so are two of my best friends, so me and E have a few dates we need off at the same time for more bachelorette and wedding duties. M is a single mom of two so she had dates in the future for appointments and school stuff with them she’d need to have off. We were never given a handbook or policies regarding holidays, sick time, PTO. I’ve never been paid for a vacation day or for any sick days. I didn’t mind as long as I could take whatever time and how much off I needed. E emailed our boss and owner of the company to give them a heads up about a few days in June she would be out of town and a few days in July we would both be out of town. The owner replied that she had no days to take off and 11 days off in a calendar year is too much. That she needed all of us in the office full time (side note this is a job that can be done WFH easily but boomers gonna boom). She ended the email saying “this isn’t going to work out. Your last day will be Friday.”
It was Wednesday at noon so the 3 of us packed up our stuff, shut down the computers, locked up and left for good.