'Totally unacceptable' | Boss threatened to sack worker after taking 'mental health day'

Indy100 has reported on a Reddit post in which an unnamed business owner revealed they offered their store manager a choice between “demotion or termination” after failing to open the store one morning, having taken the day off for mental health reasons.

In the Reddit post, which attracted more than 30,000 ‘upvotes’, the boss explained that the employee in question, identified only as ‘Peggy’, had recently been promoted to manager after two “solid years of good work as a cashier” and that “I really thought she could handle the responsibility.”

However, the shop owner woke to several notifications one morning that Peggy had not opened up as planned three hours earlier, leaving customers and employees locked outside.

After unsuccessfully trying to contact Peggy several times throughout the day, the boss received a call back an hour before Peggy’s shift was due to end, in which she explained she needed to take a mental health day.