So we hired this individual in a professional sales role and she started on Monday. This is not a remote job at all. She was already planning on moving to Utah but had to complete that process before coming to work for us. She actually wanted to start here 10 days earlier but we wanted to give her time to make that transition.

Second day (yesterday) on the job she had to leave early because there was some flooding at the home she is selling. Today we find out from her in a 3 sentence email that she has flown back to her prior home without talking to anyone about it and will be gone for a week. Senior leadership has asked me to let her go for lack of professional communication. Company policy allows it.

Not excited to make this call even though I agree she didn't handle it well. Really nice lady. The issue for her is further compounded by the fact that we, very recently, had another employee do something almost exactly like this right after he was hired and we tried to overlook it and he became the problem employee. No one is willing to go through that again and it is too fresh.