Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Employees Sues After Getting Fired 😬

26 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube conversation in which Mike Andes and another speaker discuss a recent employee termination and the employee’s threat to sue. The speakers state Amber carried out the firing, characterize the termination as for failing to follow directions, note there may be no written documentation, and treat the lawsuit threat as likely baseless in an at-will employment context.

Questions this video answers

Amber.

Failure to follow directions / repeatedly not completing requested tasks after a meeting.

No — the speaker says they "didn't necessarily do anything in writing."

We let a gentleman go this morning. Now he's threatening to sue us. He's saying he wrongly terminated and he's coming for our company.
So from a legal perspective, did you do anything wrong? Like, on the termination, who fired them?
Amber let him go.
And what'd she say when she fired him?
That, you know, hey, you know, we asked you to do something and then you didn't do it. We had a meeting. We said, you know, this is how we want things done. You know, and then the next day I asked you to do something else, and you didn't do it again.
So is. How is that wrongful termination?
I don't think it is at all.
Yeah. So it's just an empty threat, hopefully. And so, you know, let's say that they go make a claim on something like workers comp.
Sure.
Okay, great. They're going to send an investigator and you're going to show that, like, everything was done by what should be done.
I didn't necessarily do anything in writing, though.
It doesn't matter. Is it at will state? Right? Yeah. Yeah. You don't even need to give people a reason. We never give people reason.
I don't think you needed to.