Woman Defends Herself After Being Fired for Being Late on Her First and Second Day at New Job

A woman is going viral after posting a video in which she says she was fired from a new job after being late on her first and second day for what she insists were good reasons.

TikTok user bigisrayy shared a video from the driver’s seat of her car on Tuesday, July 21, in which she explained in the caption that she lost her job on her second day due to “a patten [sic] of ‘absence ‘ that they thought was unprofessional and disrespectful.”

In the video, she explained that she wanted to be “transparent” with her followers and revealed that she told her new employers that she’d have to be late on her first day because she had to go to the DMV to take care of a suspended license. She claimed, in a follow-up video shared a day later, that her uncle worked at the DMV, so she’d hoped it would be a speedy process, but her uncle was on vacation.

As a result, she showed up 30 minutes late on her first day, but claims she warned her employers she would be late and communicated with them on the day.

Things got tense the following shift when she showed up five minutes late. Rather than call ahead and warn them that she’d be late, she hoped she could simply apologize in person.

“It’s not their business, but I was literally in pain on my period. I was in pain,” she explained. “It took me a long time to get out of bed. I was in pain, whatever, I still came with a smile on my face. I got there, I looked great, I had all my stuff.”

After she clocked in, her employer told her to clock out, saying she was “done.”

In the caption of the original post, the woman asked her followers for their thoughts on the matter. However, she has since turned off responses on the post and shared the follow-up video, noting some commenters were “rude about it.”

She did address some critics who said she could have taken an Uber to work or had a friend drive her to work to avoid being late by saying she cannot afford an Uber and didn’t have anyone in her life who was available to help her. Instead, she opted to ride out the DMV situation and then charge her Tesla, which is what caused her 30-minute delay.

She concluded her second video on the subject by firing back at more negative commenters.

“You cannot look at a 60-second video and assume someone’s character. I didn’t appreciate comments saying I’m irresponsible or I don’t deserve a next job,” she said. “Laughing at me, I don’t think that’s productive by any means. I think that speaks more to your character than mine, because I was open and honest.”