The sick leave vertigo backfired
An English woman gambled heavily in the European Championship semi-finals! She called in sick to celebrate in the stadium. But her boss spotted her on TV.
The 37-year-old Nina Farooqi had won last-minute tickets for the game against Denmark and cheated her way to Wembley. Because she called her boss sick to drive from Leeds to London.
Just stupid that it had very prominent seats and was clearly visible in the audience when the camera pans.
The day after the euphoric jubilation about the promotion to the final came the sobering phone call from your employer: “They said they saw that I had been to the game. I was honest why I did it. But I was not shown any understanding and they were said that's it! “
Farooqi thought her dizziness would not be noticed by 60,000 fans in the stadium, but: “We were all over the news, my face was on every TV screen around the world.”
She takes her dismissal calmly: “There is a bit of regret, nobody wants to be fired. But I would also have hated to have missed it. I would do it again. Football is my life.”
