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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Rude-Rise-7728 on 2025-02-23 19:42:09+00:00.

The company is called Elevation Connect. It’s a BPO that offers call center services for several different clients.

To address the elephant in the room, the company had a training assistant who formerly worked as an elementary school teacher. This person was fired from that job due to very serious allegations involving a camera being placed in a bathroom, and multiple children being spied on. The person was also charged with multiple felonies. Two weeks before my firing, this person was promoted from a training assistant to full trainer.

I have a condition that can cause intense vertigo. The vertigo is particularly bad in moments when I am stressed out. Due to this condition, I would typically miss work once or twice per month. They warned me about my absences and threatened me with termination, which only made my stress levels worse, and subsequently led to an uptick in the vertigo. On November 1, I was terminated due to my absences.

My termination didn’t even make sense from a business perspective. I was at the company for about a year. To give you a sense of how many people leave the company, I was one of the most seasoned workers there when I left after just one year. Turnover at the client I worked for was so high that they ran training classes, one after the next, nonstop throughout the year. If I had to guess, the average agent lasts less than three months in production.

On the day that I was fired (they were nice enough to let me work through my lunch break) it was me and one other person on the phone, with several calls waiting in queue. This was not “clearing the dead weight.” This was just an act of cruelty that they took simply because they had the power to do so.

I am actually someone who is sympathetic to those caught in the criminal justice system.I think felons should be able to hold jobs, provided the job is appropriate in relation to the crime they were convicted of.

From my research, it appears that the charges against the trainer are still pending and that they haven’t been convicted of the charges against them. And since it is a WFH job that doesn’t put the person around kids, I can see the argument that they should be allowed to continue working there until the case is resolved.

However, any sympathy in that direction goes out the window when the same company is firing chronically ill employees.