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

Her funeral was Friday. I had sent three emails, left two voicemails, and texted my boss, Greg Whitman, directly.

He had replied with one sentence.

“We’ll discuss when you return.”

I came back Monday morning and found my desk already packed into boxes.

The office had fallen into that unnatural silence people create when they are witnessing something awful continue reading …