She was off for a week, with their blessing. She didn't return the day after her husband left, when I'm assuming they were expecting her back.
Maybe she was still not back in town and could not return the day after he left, but it sounds like she didn't communicate her intentions very well and left them in the lurch.
I am supportive of our troops and supportive and sympathetic to their families left at home. But this wasn't a lack of support by the company issue. She was given a full week off and then didn't return on time.
Could be she pushed her luck a little too far.
Some of the excerpted part suggests that it is a he said/she said situation. She admits that she got back in town the night before she was expected to show up.
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"She usually worked Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays....Boler recalled being asked, not ordered, to start back at her job Oct. 17, the day after her husband left. She told her bosses that she would try to return that day but if she could not, she would definitely be back Oct. 18, she said.
When Boler returned home from Indiana on the night of Oct. 16, a few hours after leaving her husband at the airfield, she said she felt drained by the emotional ordeal and decided to return to work Oct. 18.
But on the afternoon of Oct. 17, she received a call from work telling her to come in the following day and get her things because she was being fired."
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So apparently she didn't call in Monday telling them that she wouldn't be coming in.