[vondur]

Generally, if you email your boss and just say I'm not coming in for two weeks without discussing it with anyone before hand, you are probably going to get fired. But if what this person says is true, and they are working in cramped conditions with people who are testing positive for Covid, then something is definitely out of whack with Samsung and needs to be dealt with.

[romwell]

Not only that, but Samsung also informed them of covid cases on their floor via an email they could only read at work.

"By the way, your office is infected, and we didn't want to tell you this before you arrived here. Sorry not sorry."

This is criminal, and should not be excused.

[bluntfang]

Sure you can get fire, but they are framing is as voluntary resignation, meaning they are going to deny unemployment claims, which is really fucked.

[jonas21]

Many employment agreements have a clause that says that if you fail to report to work for X days without an approved leave you're considered to have voluntarily resigned. Based on the language, I assume that's what happened here.