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Employee Who Missed A Day Of Work After A House Fire Was Told He Would Not Be Paid Because He Was Not Technically Sick

Employee Who Missed A Day Of Work After A House Fire Was Told He Would Not Be Paid Because He Was Not Technically Sick


After an employee lost nearly everything in a tragic house fire, he understandably had to take a day off of work to sift through the rubble and come to terms with what happened. However, his boss was less than sympathetic toward his situation, refusing to compensate him for the time he had no choice but to take off. 

The employee’s boss notified him that he would not be paid for his time off after the house fire since he ‘technically’ wasn’t sick. 

Ben Askins, a content creator who often shares employee’s mind-boggling stories involving their bosses, took to TikTok to share the man’s unfortunate circumstances. 

“Last year, I had a house fire and lost the contents of my bedroom. Clothes, bed, everything,” the man wrote. “The house was full of smoke damage and needed cleaning and redecorating.” 

The man, a full-time employee, did not go to work the day after the fire as he had nothing to wear and had to clean out the house. His boss later informed him that that day’s pay would be subtracted from his salary for that month since he was “not technically ill” and could not use one of his sick days. 

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“When something happens in your personal life that impacts your professional life, which happens to everyone, a company has a choice,” Atkins explained. “They can either decide that they’re going to abide by all the marketing collateral where they bang on about how much they care about their team, and actually help step up and make it helpful, or they can make the situation worse.” 

This employee’s company clearly chose the second option. 

“Can you imagine how stressful this is?” Askins pointed out. “You’ve lost all your clothes, dealing with landlords, dealing with firemen, dealing with insurance. That is a [expletive] stressful situation!” 

When the employee asked his boss why he could not be compensated for the day off, he was told that if they did it for him, they would have to do it for everyone. 

“Do they think loads of their employees’ houses are just burning down and this is a common problem?” Askins wondered. “And if this is a common problem, you’ve got way bigger issues than one day’s pay for that team member.” 

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