A man was allegedly fired for arriving 20 minutes late to work for the first time in more than seven years. One of the sacked employee’s coworkers posted about the incident.

Reddit user @No_StopItStepbro in a post wrote, “Co-worker who has never been late in 7+ years, gets fired for the first time being late.”

“This happened last week and today Monday we just found out he was fired for being 20 minutes late FOR HIS FIRST TIME EVER… tomorrow me and ALL my coworkers will be late and will continue to come in late until they rehire him.”

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The post added that as a mark of protest, all the employees of the company have decided to come late to the office until the person is rehired by the company.

The post has generated at least 4.1k comments with several people sharing their stories of coming late to work.