A woman has claimed she was fired on her wedding day and only read the text message confirming her employment status when she checked her phone after the ceremony
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Woman ‘fired’ on her wedding day
Your wedding day is supposed to be one of the happiest days of your life.
For one woman, however, her wedding earlier this month was tainted by a horrible piece of news – that she’d been fired from her job. The newlywed, named Amanda, said she had only been working at the unnamed company for four months when she took some holiday time to get married.
On the day of her wedding, she claimed she received a text message from her boss which she thought was well-meaning, as it started off congratulating her on her big day. However, this was immediately followed by devastating news as her boss told her she’d been sacked due to “poor performance”.
Speaking on The Ben Askins Show on YouTube, Amanda said: “I got married last week in Cyprus. On my wedding day, half an hour after the ceremony, I got a text from my boss on WhatsApp to let me know I had been fired. She started the message [by saying] ‘I hope your wedding went well and that you had a nice time away’.”
Sharing the message she received in full, Amanda went on to read out: “I just wanted to let you know that the decision has been made to unfortunately let you go. An email has been sent to your personal email address detailing this. I am really sorry that it didn’t work out and wish you all the best moving forward.”
Show host Ben Askins – who offers advice on work and jobs on his channel – claimed the message was “one of the worst things” he had ever heard, and branded the company’s decision “evil” and “utterly despicable”.
Amanda said she was on her “last couple of drinks” for the night when she decided to start going through the “well wishes” she had received, which is when she saw the message on her phone. She then knew she had to check her emails, despite it being her wedding day, and discovered the reason she had been fired.
Reading from the email, she said: “This email is to inform you that your employment will be terminated effective the 20th of May 2024. Your employment has been terminated as we unfortunately feel your performance doesn’t meet the expectations we require for the role. You are entitled to one week’s notice, we will not require you to work during the notice period.”
The woman explained she had only been at the company for four months and had already seen other people fired from their roles while she was there, all of whom had only worked for a few months before being let go. She also claimed she was never given a performance review and was never told there were areas she was lacking in, and when she emailed to ask for more clarification on what the expected performance was, she was ignored.
Now, the woman has filed for job seeker’s allowance and is actively hunting for another job, while also talking to workplace experts at Acas about potentially filing a discrimination claim against her former employer.
Ben also told the woman she was doing the right thing, and offered her kind words of advice moving forward. He said: “I promise there are a lot of companies who will quite rightly value someone like you. Whatever happens, if there’s one thing you take away from our call, do not let what they said to you knock your confidence in regard to your ability to do the job.
“People who did what they did to you on someone’s wedding day are not people you take seriously in regards to any sort of level of intelligence or quality of human being in any sense of the word. They are just an awful company.”
Commenters on the video were quick to slam the company for their “abhorrent” actions. One commenter even claimed to have been a guest at Amanda’s wedding, and wrote: “I was front row to this s**t show. Ruined her day. I was so angry for the couple. She was given glowing feedback while working and then to have this on her wedding day. I’m very proud of her for not laying down and taking it and I’m glad that in some ways this company is going to be shown to be the horrible company they are. I appreciate Ben giving her a voice too.”
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