Terminated for attending my mother’s funeral.” After five years of loyalty, I was fired by email while still grieving.

I buried her.

I opened a new email draft to my attorney, Dana Moretti, a labor lawyer my mother had once known through church. I attached the termination email, the funeral notice, screenshots of my leave requests, Greg’s text, and the employee handbook section showing the bereavement leave policy.

Then I created a second encrypted folder.

That one went continue reading …