Comment by Etheryte
8 years ago
The author should get their own legal in line - does the contract even allow termination on the spot. If not, the employer is just adding to their own pile of ridiculous mistakes.
8 years ago
The author should get their own legal in line - does the contract even allow termination on the spot. If not, the employer is just adding to their own pile of ridiculous mistakes.
Probably. At will employment is pretty common in the US.
Even in Europe it's pretty lenient for the first period. Different countries obviously have different maximum probation periods but day 1 would fall into it in most (all?) of them
Are we sure its the USA some of the language used in the poor guy's post on redit implies a non native speaker I am guessing India which is known for treating employees "horrifically".
land of the uninsured, non unionized free
When America was more deservingly called the "land of the free" in the 40s and 50s, they were also heavily unionized.
(Well, then it was "land of the free, blacks excepted")