Boss issues formal warning to employee during her approved vacation in Cabo for missing a meeting added to her work calendar while she was out of the country – FAIL Blog

What makes a written warning such a specific kind of workplace move is the paperwork. It is not just a conversation or a complaint. It is a document, filed somewhere, attached to a person’s record, making the case that they did something wrong. In this situation, something wrong was not attending a meeting they had no reason to know existed, on a day they were not supposed to be working, in a country they were visiting on a trip their manager had approved.