[Moral Hazard]

"This article is a little vague.

Did she take a week off, and then not show up on the day after the week she took off?

Or

Did she take a week off, and that scheduled week included the day after her husband left?

If the latter, its pretty disgusting. If the former, then she should have made better arrangements."

It's the former. She took the previous week off, her husband left on Sunday the 16th, and she was scheduled to return on Monday the 17th, but didn't show up that day. She claims that her work understood that she probably wouldn't be in on the 17th. Obviously that means she did not call them on the 17th to let them know she was taking that day off.

What it presumably comes down to is whether she in fact did tell them beforehand she would probably take the 17th off, and whether they understood that as meaning she wouldn't need to call them and let them know that day.

[Labyrinthos]

What it presumably comes down to is whether she in fact did tell them beforehand she would probably take the 17th off, and whether they understood that as meaning she wouldn't need to call them and let them know that day.

This statement is key: "He added that other factors were involved in the decision, but he declined to elaborate." Seems to me that her employer was looking for a reason to fire her because she was a problem employee. She may have had a long history of unreliability, inexcusable absences, attitude. etc. Good employees are hard to find and I doubt the employer would have fired her over something like this if it was a first-time occurance for an otherwise good employee.