Sacked at work for seeing my Dad in Hospital UK
So for context, I’ve started this job just over 2 weeks ago and I mentioned to the recruiter who helped me get my job that my dad has terminal ill cancer and mentioned that if the time comes my dad is in deep trouble would I be able to have some time off. He said he will mention it
On the 1st of May my dad got rushed to hospital fluid in his lungs due to his prostate cancer stage 4. I went to work and told them would I be able to see my dad and they said yes. So that was the 1st day off because of that. I told my manager yesterday that my dad has got days to live and he mentioned just tell us what you wanna do. Today I emailed him before work as my mom phoned me up regarding my dad’s situation and said it is very very serious and would I be able to pop by. I emailed my manager straight away telling him I had to go hospital today and see him and told him I would update him this afternoon, he said “okay just keep us updated
I am aware it was unprofessional to bail out like that and put them in that situation, which now to think of it, most likely didn’t help. I then received an email from work with a termination notice effective immediately with no explanation what so ever
I plan to go the office tomorrow morning to understand why this has happened and talk about my side of it. Hopefully we can come to an agreement and they might have misunderstood my situation as well
I completely understand as well from their point of view, why would they keep someone going through this. But when I been at work, I kept my head down and pushed through it. I work as a account manager in b2b sales