re: Employee trying to make me fire them on Christmas

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Doesn’t know her name, the year, ect.

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No need to fire her, tell her you don't have room for her on the schedule. Tell her it's Christmas time and everyone is asking for hours to cover gift buying. Tell her, when she is ready to come back, write down the days she can work. Then just say that doesn't work for you.

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will also want workmans comp

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I had one in mind already for no call, no showing several times since being hired 5 weeks ago. She also gets sick extremely often, especially when she doesn’t agree with the daily tasks.

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One of my strongest memories of my father's life in football begins in December 1968, when he was abruptly fired from his first head coaching job with the Los Angeles Rams. Back then, playing pro ball was a part-time job, and a player who devoted six months of the year wearing a numbered, nameless jersey was sacrificing body and bones for the common good of the team. Football was divided between two tribes -- the N.F.L. and the American Football League -- and a 50-yard-line seat at the Los Angeles Coliseum cost $5.50. The average player earned $25,000 a year, and even star players held down off-season jobs to subsidize their paychecks: Roman Gabriel, the Rams quarterback, worked in sales for Sportabs, a vitamin company, and Deacon Jones, a defensive end, worked in sales and promotion for Schlitz.

On the morning after Christmas, when Dan Reeves, the Rams' owner, telephoned my father and told him: "Merry Christmas, George. You're fired," my father was so shaken by the news that he could not bring himself to share it with my three older brothers and me. That night, while watching the dinnertime sports on TV, we kids learned that Dad had been fired. It was hard to believe. The year before, he had shared the title of N.F.L. Coach of the Year with Don Shula of the Baltimore Colts; now Dad was out of a job.

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