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My coworker was fired on Wednesday after our lunch shift. She has been here since end of December and sticked around in January when there was a mass quit, and she was the only server and there was only one cook and temporary manager for like 2 months. I work at a retirement center. This place is now just starting to get back up on its feet. There was just a permanent manager hired on Thursday, a permanent floor manager hired about a month ago and 4 full time servers, 2 part time ,4 cooks, and 2 dishwashers. My coworker is constantly late. Every. single. day. Like 10-15 minutes late. They have been harping on her about being late since January. She also calls off a lot but works like 9-10 sometimes 11 days in a row. She’s even worked on her days off because we were short staffed. I’ll admit she can be quite mouthy and bitchy and gives death stares/dirty looks a lot and bitches about how tired she is, but she works hard. She has had problems with other coworkers that was taken to HR. HR doesn’t seem to really like her and even told her mom one more mess up and she’s gone. They were looking for a reason to fire her. It came out of nowhere. Our shift is 11a-7pm. This was around 3 after our lunch shift and break, we were doing side work and HR lady asks to talk to her and asks me to watch the cafe. Coworker storms out and mouths I just got fired and I’m in shock. Manager follows shortly after with her key to the building back to HR. I go to the kitchen to talk to her and she’s already clocked out and left. Everyone was so confused, even her boyfriend who came in later that shift. Her boyfriend said he was gonna quit. Another coworker said she’s gonna quit because she shouldn’t have gotten fired and a few coworkers are glad they don’t have to deal with her drama and smartmouth anymore. Her number is still hanging in my bosses office and I wanna reach out and text her but is that weird?