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One of my business friends had to fire someone last year.

The employees were all sent home to work, since the COVID mess. Her business is running background checks for other companies in the hiring process. Since most of the work is on the computer, it was fine to send the people to their houses. She paid for people to upgrade internet access, sent PCs home and paid for cellphone service.

One of the employee stopped returning calls and e-mails to her. She would respond to other employees, but not the boss. She finally had someone connect her and said she needed an in person meeting. At the in person meeting, the employee basically stated that since she was working out of the house, the phone and computer were now hers and that she didn't want to do work calls on the phone.

It was a WTF are you talking about moment. My friend explained that since she was paying for everything, it was company equipment. And that if she tried to contact her, that she should respond immediately during working hours unless on a company phone call. The response was something like: "I don't want to work like that.". OK, thanks for "quitting", since you just said you do not want to work in the approved manor.

I think this one was trying to get fired so that she could collect unemployment, which included the $600/wk Federal bonus at the time.