India, Dec. 5 -- A Reddit post has gone viral after an employee claimed a salary deduction for missing a meeting during a family emergency.

The employee who works as an accountant claimed that grandmother was admitted to the ICU and required urgent attention, even while working from home.

"Director asked HR to deduct a day's salary because I was not available for a meeting," the caption of the post reads.

According to the post, because of the grandmother's hospitalisation, the employee missed a late-night regular meeting at 9 pm with the client.

"Just a regular check up how-you-doing kinda call. Though I had informed one of my colleagues, he was forgot to mention it to the management and then later in the night" the post adds.

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