I was front row to this sh** 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.

They should be sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress. This was deliberate.

Probation period or not, having asked if she intended to have children and then firing her is a cast iron discrimination claim. Get a lawyer.

I had an employer try to cancel my already approved time off. Wedding is planned, guests from ovwrseas from have RSVP'd. She knew all this and still told me to be in for the time I had requested for my wedding and honeymoon. I stared at her in preys disbelief and answered with 2 simple words: I QUIT!

The only thing that surprises me about bosses is that they find new ways to make us lose hope in humanity

Firing her on her wedding day is the most petty thing I have heard yet.

I got made redundant on my Husband's 50th birthday. I had worked for that company for 8 years, I had taken annual leave for that day to do something special, and she knew I had plans for his birthday. I made the mistake of answering the phone that morning to receive the news that I was redundant effective immediately and placed on garden leave. Ironically, my official last day was My Birthday in August. Then 3 months later I was offered my dream job out of the blue with a start up with my dream job and I've never looked back and have gone on to do way better things; almost 5 years later, I've more than doubled my salary and with an industry that I love and a fantastic team that I work with. In hindsight, she did me a favour!

If she was given good reviews during her probationary period then her reason for dismissal was poor performance then she has the grounds for an employment tribunal.

Boss was jealous that she was getting married. Passive aggressive revenge...

This company needs to get blacklisted

The fact that she sent you a message as well as an email just shows she wanted to ruin your wedding day…

The fact they did it on her wedding day after having asked about her intention to have children, and have otherwise hired all young, single, childless people, shows me it was intentional and illegal. I hope she is able to get compensation. Don't let them get away with it. Best of luck.

Sounds like discrimination, plain and simple. Having "the right to let you go for any reason" does *not* include discrimination. It's illegal. Get a solicitor.

Really shady company and boss. What a coward to fire via text, not to mention the timing.

The circumstances are basically irrelevant. Firing someone via email or WhatsApp is just cowardly. And then adding insult to injury by doing it on her wedding day? That is just despicable

This is literally unbelievable. One of the most despicable ways I can think of to fire someone.

As a childfree by choice, unmarried woman I think this was a dirty trick and it sounds like an immature bunch of mean girls regardless of gender that quite frankly haven't grown up to run a coffee machine let alone a company. Such a dick move but I think later on down this lady's career path she's going to see she got out at the right time.

A friend of mine got a branch award and regional "excellence" awards in the same week as he was let go for lack of work.

If they asked about children that’s against the law

Wow!! And I thought it was bad when I was messaged on my wedding day by my boss asking me to do invoicing 🙄 (because most brides carry a laptop on their wedding day).

I really hope this company gets revealed, and that they face some serious consequences for this!

Even ignoring the fact that it's illegal, that timing is absolutely despicable.

When I was 25 I got hired as a leasing consultant for an apartment management company. I worked my notice and on the last day of the notice, I was at home on my lunch hour and they called me and told me corporate had eliminated the position. I was to get a discounted apartment as part of the salary, and they had the nerve to ask me if I still wanted the apartment (at full price). I was packed to move and the truck was coming the next day to relocate me three hours away, and I lived paycheck to paycheck in those days. I didn't know what to do. I bit the bullet and moved anyway, put my stuff in storage and lived in a friend's guest room for a month while I pounded the pavement every day until I found another job. To this day I wonder if the boss from my previous job (same industry) badmouthed me to them and that my new job had not been eliminated at all. Guess I'll never know.

I worked for a wall st.type company and we were having struggles. We had about 500 employees and we cut almost 100. We did take a lot of time making the best strategies to become profitable.. Cutting 100 people was terrible. But the day it happens is awful..once the phone rings at the desk security walks you over and takes you to HR and you never come back. We'll we go thru it all and we realize that "Scott" isn't in...we fired his team lead so we go to the next guy up and say where isnScott? He is getting married tomorrow.. we struggled for an hour..do we tell him or let him know when he gets back. I will say after seeing this video I am proud of what we did. We didn't tell him.. he went to Hawaii or somewhere for 2 weeks. Many of his friends were fired and he knew at the wedding that we let a lot of people go... He came back to work 2 weeks later. We added 5k to his severance (a wedding gift) and let him go.

This is abhorrent. It’s also why most women keep their personal lives a secret, especially pregnancy. Most don’t tell until they can’t hide in any more for reasons just like this. Glassdoor: “Sacked during my wedding…”

This termination felt very toxic and personal. Probably someone who was mad because they can’t keep a man themselves.

Sex discrimination on a massive scale.

It's the 'x' that lets you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that this person is a psychopath.

That is absolutely disgusting. Definitely need to go court

I’m so glad she is following this up and fighting against this companies behaviour.

Low wage churn, basically keep hiring and firing to avoid payrises and redundancy payouts for those at the bottom of the ladder.

The x at the end 🤦🏻‍♀️ absolutely insufferable

You don't end a text like that with "kiss" without pure malice in your heart.

In the 1950’s, 60’s and even 70’s a single woman might be fired if she got married, or take a major pay cut, because it was assumed that her husband would be supporting them. This whole thing makes me wonder what century those people are living in 🤯🤬

The gaslighting is incredibly disgusting! Without all the facts but absolutely believing your caller, this screams of sex discrimination. As for the circumstances - no words (that are printable anyway)!

NAME & SHAME THE COMPANY!!

God, that's worse than the time I was fired the week of my birthday

A friend of mine was fired on the last day of her probation period in Germany. She was only a substitute for an employee who was on maternity leave but apparently she was never informed about that. I feel like as an employer you can be honest about stuff like that and just come to a mutual agreement that the employment is only temporary.

I am absolutely appalled! I'm so sorry this happened to you, Amanda. Thanks for offering her help Ben. I know exactly what it's like to get fired completely unfairly and I worked with my previous company for a decade and trained staff and was constantly pushed back from promotion. It's been getting close to a year and after plenty of applications and several interviews, I still have not found a role. It just sucks, especially knowing your work brought in thousands upon thousands of dollars for a company over the long run and they still haven't picked up their gear from my house!🤦🏼‍♀️ Some companies need to be named and shamed. I hope Amanda finds something soon!

Deleted emails CAN be resurrected.

Idea for the Hook Line of her Glassdoor Review: Would you like to have chaos in your life? Well, this is the company for you! Make sure you're single and ready to mingle, or you'll be replaced very quickly during your probationary period. The company is your family, so stop what you're doing and don't go off getting a family of your own.

a company like that, deserve to get so many bad reviews that they have to shut down.

What kind of boss is this ,what a witch. Performance my butt, they wanted a single person they could control. 4 people fired in less than a year. Sounds like a scam by this employer

"Kiss!!" What kind of boss sends a KISS? THAT IS WEIRD!😮😮 I do think you dodged a bullet!! BTW, Congratulations!!!

I started working at a company in April 2017. I had some major health issues and I got called on my personal cell phone, in the hospital, right before another surgery, to be told that I missed too many days during the probationary period, and I was terminated. That stay in the hospital was 29 days, and five surgeries. By the end of the year, I had a total of 9 surgeries, and had spent an aggregate over 2 months in the hospital. And that's still not the worst treatment I've received from an employer. Best wishes to the caller/bride. Hope we get an update.

I had this happen to me too. During my wedding my phone is going bonkers. I don't look until next day. Then a few months later, my friend who also worked there was also terminated and she sued. I was called as a witness for her in court and the owner called me by the name of a victim of a murder who was in the headlines at the time, MULTIPLE times during the hearing. Needless to say they are long since out of business.

This needs maximum publicity and media coverage. Name and shame.

The timing of the message was deliberate to cause maximum upset. It's sociopathic behaviour. The bride is much better off out of there. It sounds like working for Regina and her Mean Girls more than a proper company.

It sounds to me that they fired her because she got married and wanted to have kids and they didn't want to deal with maternity leave or her having a family to take care of that might divert her attention from work. I know in the US they aren't allowed to ask someone if they are planning to have kids or stuff about their personal lives. Not sure about the rules in UK but I would think it's not any of their business. I hope she sues and wins.

Disability discrimination should never be tolerated. Sexual descrimination is also a concern with this. I would definitely report them to applicable agencies.

I worked for my cousin for 11 years. He sold his business with the provision that his employees would be kept on for 3 months. Fine. I provided my cousin with a list of everything in the office that belonged to me and not the company so there would be no misunderstandings...which turned out to be prophetic. A week after the company sale was finalized my cousin died of a heart attack; a few days earlier one of my aunts had died, and I asked the new owner permission to go to her memorial, which was the same week as my cousin's death. When I returned to the office after the memorial, the new owner told my associate and I we were fired, and we had the afternoon to remove our things from the office while he watched. So much for the 3 months of continued employment; it was a lot of loss to suffer in just one week.

I left a terrible workplace recently after they'd fired staff before their probation ended for flimsy reasons, and as I was only casual, I strongly suspected I was next on the chopping board

They don't see employees as human.

This company runs an inhumane staff policy that does not provide staff assessment during probation and knowingly fires new staff during their wedding day by using WhatsApp messaging. I would seriously warn and advise job seekers not to apply for employment with this company .

Name and shame this company! We need to start holding them accountable publicly!

I was fired once during probation because my performance was not up to standards (they forced me and lured me into taking the position that I did not want), and it happened right after I came back from holidays. They knew it was gonna happen but at least they waited for me to be back to tell me. It's literally the minimum level of humanity, respect and professionalism.

I actually would like to know the company for once. I don’t want to fall into the same trap.

this company needs to be named and shamed to protect other people

My sister worked (low end packing job) at a well know chemist in the UK. Most of the ladies there were temporary shift workers, no matter how many hours or years they had put in. While she was there many men (who started after her) were given full time positions and one young lady who was openly lesbian and her mum. Everyone knew they didn’t often give younger women permanent positions because they didn’t want to pay for maternity leave (this was long before men got any paid maternity leave). The perks were good, she got us a lot of heavily discounted toiletries and No.7 products, but she eventually got sick of not knowing how many hours she would be getting from week to week and left for a better job.

4:05 In the U.S., the question about having kids would court legal action.

Fired by text while you're on vacation.... That's disgraceful. We had someone who they had to call and let them know they were fired on vacation, but that's because someone disabled their accounts early, and he had called in to find out why he couldn't check email. They had intended to wait till he got back to let him know

Companies are just getting lower. Why on her wedding day. That will always stay with her 😒😔

Straight to the information commissioner for the SAR refusal

It had nothing to do with her performance. It seems that they are in the habit of paying less to their employees who are at a starting wage and then getting rid of them before they would get a raise in pay. If she decides to pursue a discrimination claim, she may want to check into exactly how many people were let go just before their probationary period was over along with how many of them had kids or were recently pregnant or engaged.

Ben, you seem like a genuinely nice guy, and i imagine you are a great boss, your staff are lucky to work for someone like you.

It bothers me to no end that people treat people like this. Forget the boss/company versus employee relationship, how can you justify in your brain treating people that way. I see it and deal with it everyday and I will never understand it. Ben, thank you for shedding the light on this. I hope your voice continues to grow exponentially!

Could have easily waited a few days, seems purposeful.

You need to start giving names of these companies so people looking for work can avoid

Name and shame is the ONLY remedy!

I agree that she's better off not being part of that company long term.

If asked her about having children, big red flag.... That alone could constitute be a violation of employment law. Very suspicious timing.

I hope the company sees this and faces the backlash for its horrible behavior.

Companies should be fined for texting or emailing employees after hours or during employees vacation time period.

Publish the name of the company that fired you, they can't sue you for telling the truth. If you do that, at least everyone will then know to avoid these scum bags like the plague. Also, who knows, perhaps you can even loose them enough business to bankrupt them.

Name and shame companies like that!

Wow!! That's heartless! That poor woman, especially getting fired on her wedding day.

If a boss has this type of evaluation, then there should be a paper trail and interventions provided to support the employee to meet expectations.

I have no knowledge of the UK laws, but here in the US any employment attorney would be foaming at the mouth to get their claws into This Woman's case! I would love an update as to where she ended up landing in employment, and I would love to have a gander of that glass door review! Congratulations on your wedding and good luck at your new company wherever that may be you deserve it! Her old company deserves the garbage dump!

In my first job i had PTO booked off for the back half of a week in november, I had started working there in July and booked the time off immediately as my graduation ceremony was on the thursday so i'd travel on the Wednesday, stay in bournemouth overnight, graduate and head back the next day. That week was one of the worst weeks of my life. My dog passed away on the monday and he'd been part of my family since I was 7 (14 years) and then the day after my graduation on the friday I got a call saying I was being let go due to redundancy. It should have been the best week of my life, I officially got my degree and I had a job but that was taken away. Glad to say i'm much happier with my current job which i've been at for just over a year, but it did take 6 months to get

I disclosed to my employer during the probationary period that I was autistic and the father of two autistic children. Two days later, I was let go from the company, and when I asked my supervisor while I was in tears (considering I pushed myself so hard to work there to support my family) why I was let go, he said, "Normally it's our policy not to disclose why, but some people just weren't born to work in the industry."

wow, i was waiting for the glassdoor review plan, definitely deserve to have people warned, I honestly only heard of one other company doing that to someone and it was made a big deal their too but it was also in a time where this company was known for being a bit controversial and they did i think issue an apology but my memory is a bit hazy, they definitely need a reprimand for that and your request for an explanation was so well put, the discrimination on family life is so disgusting for me

That lady's boss needs to have the sign on his office door replaced with the word ... well, it rhymes with punt. If they were even minimally justified in those multiple firings, that wouldn't say much for their hiring process... As it is, that's a vicious and unforgivable way for any business to terminate people.

Looking for a job is the hardest and worst job a person can have. Coming from a horrible company that let her go knowing it was her wedding makes it hard to believe there are decent people and companies out there

This is so toxic (especially the details of the case). Congratulations to the caller on the marriage. Best wishes moving forwards in life with a worthy employer.

Needing to have her chair be adjusted & asked “who do you think you are, Stephen Hawking?” My God, what an awful company!

I got fired 2 weeks after the company went to a new health plan that was paid by the company. I found out I was pregnant and within 3 days I was fired. They expected me to stay for two weeks to train my replacement. I told them they don’t get that advantage when you fire somebody.

I worked for a company that had a bad habit of suddenly finding multiple issues with long-term employees conveniently after FMLA requests. Nothing to see... 😡

It’s only heart breaking when you put high expectations into a job that requires you to miss your children events or work on your days off, to be more than who they are when it comes to your wedding. These bosses don’t care about what you have going on in your personal life, just don’t let it affect their company.

Also, failure to respond to the SAR is another compensation claim.

Unfortunately there are a lot of these about at “many” levels. And really terrible bosses who let good people go for some really silly reasons! Good luck to you and I’m sure you’ll find somewhere good to work in the near future!

So many companies in Australia that operate here like this! Churn through employees like a wood chipper!

Anyone who doesn't know they are going to be removed by having had some warnings, counseling, serious talks, performance ratings has worked for people who have no idea what they are doing.

Former government worker here (payroll/hr): this actually more common than you think, letting people go during their probationary period for made up reasons. My former employer (state entity) would often layoff staff just before their probationary period (six months) was up, because once the period was up, you had to offer medical/dental benefits. So it was cheaper to lay people off and hire a new batch.

"..quickly growing company...." not for much longer hopefully!

Sit on the footpath at their front door with a hat and a sign, 'please help, these ..... sacked me on my wedding day'.

That bit about her chair was reprehensible. We had some people in our office that had specialized needs for various reasons. They each received one of the newer, more expensive ergonomic chairs. They were assigned to the individual. They had signage that nobody else could use them. It was considered a matter of respect that you keep out of them. They had each been individually fitted. Please note, this was in an organization with hundreds of employees on the shifts and everyone was assigned to a team area, but not individual desks. We were all hot-desking, with afternoon and evening shifts taking over the spots from the earlier shifts. Of course, we would laugh at each other as we swiped our favorite chairs, etc. Yet, we all respected our fellow employees and pulled over one of the regular chairs instead of messing with the claimed chairs. For that other employee to deliberately alter her settings is reprehensible. They used her chair, they changed her settings, there were rudely discriminatory comments made, then they were liars and gaslighting that she made it up? Ugh! So toxic.

One of my previous employers "set up" a situation to end 3 peoples trial period so they could terminate the contract with the staff. They also gave no legitimate reasoning to the dismissal.

So the rest of the women there were single women, you were off getting married (and planned to eventually have children). It is pretty clear what their "performance" issues were, focused on your future probable uterus performance! They did not want to pay maternity leave, pure and simple. As a lesser aside, a couple of years ago I was fired on my actual birthday. Classy!

I would be whistle blowing the crap out of that place, if they have done this before and quite regularly they must be getting some kind of benefit from it, maybe a government payout or something, because the amount of time, effort and money it takes to hire someone and to then fire them has to be offset some how. Something seriously dodgy is happening.

That is so scummy behavior. I was once fired two days before my planned vacation, and they ended the meeting by saying have a nice trip. What a bunch of A-holes some people can be.