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[quote=Anonymous]Ok, so this does suck all around.  But your niece sounds young, and naive.  (and you are not helping her).  I'm sure if I was 24 and loved my job and was fired I'd be exactly the same way.

But at this point, what's done is done.  Her crying the day she was fired probably led her supervisor (who probably, as other have said, didn't handle this with HR guidance to begin with) to bring in HR and decide she shouldn't stay the week.

She was treated as a professional, though.  A severance package is a good thing for a 24 year old with 2 years experience.  Was she also paid out any vacation?

If she had remained calm, she should have said, I need 24 hours to think about this and left immediately carrying a copy so that it could be legally reviewed.  What else is in it?  She agrees not to badmouth them, they are agree not to badmouth her?  Are they going to provide a reference?

Signing a letter like this also sometimes means you've agreed to resign, rather than be fired.  Is that in the letter?  If so, the good news is when asked on job applications she does not need to check that she has been fired.  The bad news is she won't be able to apply for unemployment (which does not apply if you have resigned your job).

I think you need to read up a bit on this (you're actually getting good advice on this board) and tell her buck up.  This is the way the corporate world works.  Better she learned this lesson now, while she is young, than naively give of herself to a company that would fire her just like that.

Look, it sucks.  I've been there.  I'm still (years later) upset at being fired.  But there's no going back.  The best she can do is pick herself up, learn from it, and move on, with a hard lesson learned.  She can feel sad, yes, and that they treated her unfairly.  But she can't let this define who she is professionally, or allow it to affect her so that she's not able o get additional work.

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