Not necessarily. I worked at a company where if you missed two days of work without calling in to let them know, you were fired. You could stretch that to about

Not necessarily. I worked at a company where if you missed two days of work without calling in to let them know, you were fired. You could stretch that to about 5 days if you always called in. I'm not making a judgement as to whether those are reasonable terms, only pointing out that such jobs exist, and could be similar where this individual worked there.