{"id":1638,"date":"2025-04-04T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:14:55","slug":"i-fired-a-single-mom-for-being-late-then-found-out-why-and-begged-for-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"I Fired a Single Mom for Being Late\u2014then Found Out Why and Begged for Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been a manager for almost six years, and I always thought I was fair. Strict, maybe, but fair. Rules are rules, and if I make exceptions for one person, then where does it stop? That\u2019s what I told myself when I fired Celia last week.<\/p>\n<p>She was late again\u2014third time this month. Our policy is clear: three strikes, you\u2019re out. She barely said a word when I called her into my office. Just nodded, grabbed her bag, and left without arguing. That should\u2019ve been the first sign something was off.<\/p>\n<p>Later that afternoon, I overheard two coworkers whispering. \u201cDid you hear about Celia\u2019s son?\u201d one asked. \u201cYeah,\u201d the other sighed. \u201cPoor kid. She\u2019s been sleeping in her car with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been a manager for almost six years, and I always thought I was fair. Strict, maybe, but fair. Rules are rules, and if I make exceptions&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}