Some companies have strict rules with employees and one mistake can cause them to lose their job. This is what happened to a young American who, due to a network interruption, which he said lasted 20 seconds, fired from your job.

Michelle He is 24 years old and hails from California, United States. I work as a product lead for a technology company from great Britain but he made a mistake his old boss deemed unforgivable. The woman shared on her TikTok account @brokeasshorsegirl what she experienced in 2022, which caused so much anger among her company executives.

On August 1, at 4:30 a.m., Michelle was in a virtual work meeting with colleagues from other countries when she got up to make herself coffee. Maybe because she was sleepy for an hour, the woman forgot to put her cup under the coffee pot and the coffee spilled all over the kitchen. Far from being annoyed, he took the situation with humor and decided to record the moment to share with his followers.

“I shot a quick film of coffee spilling everywhere, turning my face to the camera and screaming ‘damn. I stopped filming and uploaded it to social networks,” he said. However, he didn’t realize that as he naively pointed out the coffee sequence, a meeting was taking place and audio was popping up on the video.

“I didn’t use my big brain to think about the fact that, thanks to the sound of the video, you can hear my product manager talking… Because I’m in my weekly team meeting,” he explained to insider.

The young woman pointed out that it was a meeting moment in which she didn’t need to participate, so she used the time to make a video that would prove fatal to her corporate career.

“My colleagues had conversations that had absolutely nothing to do with me. So I went and shot a 20 second clip and shared it. When I uploaded the video, I didn’t notice it in the background sounds a work meeting. And I didn’t think about it until the next day,” he said.

The next day he received a call from Human Resources to tell him that someone from the company has seen the video. “They announced to me: ‘Hey, someone send us this clip and we will immediately fire you from the company for ‘gross negligence’“, said.

“I was fired from my remote IT job, with a six figure annual salary, because I posted TikTok clips on the internet,” the young woman wrote on her account. As the young woman immediately deleted the video of the altercation from her account, she later uploaded another one explaining what happened where she appeared to be calm regardless of what happened.

The company explained to him that recording his colleagues for private video during work hours is considered a serious offence, as well as publishing “secret” conversations without consent and for having “undermined the trust” the company has placed in them. he. . Reason enough for you to leave your job immediately.

“My colleagues did not speak (at the meeting) about anything highly confidential. To be honest, you can barely hear them in the background but sadly they took it as a valid reason to fire me and fired me. I have no choice but to accept it, I messed up. It was a mistake, I accept it one hundred percent. They kicked me out, I can’t do anything,” was Michelle’s defense after her irresponsible act.

the young he quickly deleted the video from his account. “I cried for about five minutes I think. In short, I’m beyond shocked that something so small led to them firing someone who just received a raise a few weeks ago,” he concluded.

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