Boss told me to took a day off, then fired me for it. Is legal retaliation possible?

[pythonis]

Originally Posted by Meyerland

How often do you ask off or to leave early? It's a simple email. Isn't that how most communication in the office is handled these days?

walk into foreman's office. "Can I take 4 hours vacation today?"

[rugrats2001]

Originally Posted by Meyerland

How often do you ask off or to leave early? It's a simple email. Isn't that how most communication in the office is handled these days?

Not every job is an office job with computer access. I've had quite a few friends who have never used a computer in their employement and would have no idea what their supervisor's email address is.

I really don't think a new hire in a job for a week would be expected to be exchanging emails with their boss on a regular basis.

[Willistonite]

Originally Posted by Keyotse

Hi. I have a question.

On my first week of the job, I worked an extra day, because I didn't have a formal schedule as a new hire.

That extra day was this passing Saturday.

My morning manager beckoned me aside and told me "Because you worked an extra day this Saturday, take your next day, Tuesday, off. It would be too much stress on the payroll, otherwise."

Another co-worker talked to me about the plans we had for Wednesday. So he was on board with what the manager said as well.

I didn't report to work on Tuesday.

I came in tonight, and one of my co-workers was given the order to terminate me. I asked him "why?" and he told me "because you were a no call, no show yesterday." This completely blindsided me. I didn't have a tearful or emotional attitude. I had a "I'm-going-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-this" attitude.

I spoke to an additional manager, who said that the one who told me to take that day off, gave him the order to terminate me.

So, you can imagine my frustration. What frustrates me even more is that she magically "forgot" what she told me, and she ordered to have me terminated.

Also, magically, the co-workers told me that had no knowledge of the subject, even though, I was fairly certain there were some ears present.

Is it possible to take this issue to an attorney?

Will I be laughed out of the office?

Thank you for your time and answers.

Before hiring an attorney make sure you are not a "right to work state" .

[Sockeye66]

HR Manager guy here.
1st. 49 out of the 50 states (Montana being the one) are employment "at will" (the above poster any many others confuse this with "right to work")

At will is very simple, a person can be termed for any reason or no reason at all, as long as it's not a protected reason, ie: race, creed, color, religion, etc. If you were not termed for any of these reason than it's legal not matter how crappy a reason it is.

A lawyer can do nothing for you, your only option is to appeal to that crappy boss.