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I’m usually okay with agreeing to disagree and not allowing my feelings towards a situation sway me from facts, and “right from wrong” but something about this just doesn’t sit right with me and I can’t help but to blog about it. If there’s any attorneys that happen to come across this…I’d love to put my thoughts to rest by hearing your point of view.

Long Story Short… I was employed with an airline as a flight attendant, I was 3 months into my 6 month probationary period. The state I live in is considered At-Will employment. I won’t go into full details on how i feel about “At-Will employment” but in short, I wholeheartedly disagree with it;

Anyways, I reported harassment to my supervisor and she put me in contact with an employment resource team that helps coworkers resolve conflict before it gets out of hand. Two weeks later, after completing a trip, I left my personal backpack with my personal stuff in it onboard a aircraft. By time i got a hold of it, someone had stolen my cards, cash, and other personal items inside of it. I took all the steps I could take to get my stuff back. I called my supervisors and let them know that I wouldn’t be able to report to my next block because i had no credit card to check into a hotel (you have to have a physical to check in to hotel). I asked them how do i go about calling off as i am not sick…they told me they did their part and they were too busy to deal with me any further. After reaching out to my supervisors, union reps, and coworkers, I called off my block and they classified it as sick even though I told them I wasn’t sick and explained why i was calling out.

Fast forward 2 weeks, I get a call to attend a meeting and was told that i abused the Sick Leave Policy. I explained and presented the facts i had available to dispute their claim, but a week later they said that they admit that management failed me but i still abused the policy and moved forward with termination.

The story is more detailed than what I wrote, which sucks because it would make for a way better picture and understanding but i just cant help but to feel as if they took this incident and used it to get rid of me because the employee i reported for harassment is well known and liked by a lot of people within the company; i hate to come to that conclusion but to admit that my supervisor’s should’ve provided me with the correct verbiage to classify my absence and they admittedly hung up on me, refuse to further assist me, they still felt in their minds the right thing to do was to move forward with termination….

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Employers have too much power and not enough money…

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