Apparently the guy in my department who got fired the other day had a bout of depression 🙁

I guess that explains why he missed the two days he did without calling in and wasn't answering our attempts to contact him. He was in this past Monday and I noticed that he was very weirdly quiet when he's usually more upbeat and talkative. Like I said in an earlier post, it was all very out of character of him. Another guy who's friends with him outside of work was telling us he recently had a bad breakup with his girlfriend, who's also the mother of his kid, and that combined with the stress of the increased workload we've been getting in our department just got to him that bad. That really is a shame and I know what it's like having a depression slump all too well. I just wish he handled it differently and at the very least let us know he was going to be out those days so he could've put in for PTO. But as per our company policy, you no-show two days without a word, it's considered job abandonment, so it's out of our hands. He can apply for unemployment, so there's that, and just, all the best to him. Hopefully we can see him back in another department in our workplace someday.