Overview

• The employee suffered a broken leg in a bike accident just two weeks into his new role and informed his manager that doctors advised bed rest.
• Instead of granting sick leave, the manager urged him to return and offered to provide a chair so he could sit while working.
• Faced with persistent guilt-tripping over his brief tenure and pressure to commit before medical clearance, the employee responded, “Then let me make it even easier for you. I quit.”
• Ben Askins’s Instagram post of the WhatsApp conversation quickly went viral, drawing widespread attention to the incident.
• Users across social media shared their own stories of employers denying sick leave or demanding injured workers return before they were medically fit.