letting go

this week the weirdest thing happened at work. someone was fired. i work at a job where no one gets fired. in fact the management even prides themselves in this. well , this tuesday they broke their record. they fired someone . and unfortunately, they will be getting away with it. my co-worker had been in a car accident and injured her back. she finally came back to work last week, and as of this tuesday , she was let go. fortunately or unfortunately for me i had no warning that this was going to occur. perhaps i could have stopped it had i known. or perhaps not. my supervisor told my co-worker that since she was injured it didnt seem like she would be able to do the work and that she didnt think that she ever would be able to . my co-worker did try to fight back , but my supervisor being the clod that she is didnt listen. the thing is even if this woman would not have been able to fully uphold her duties she could have helped out otherwise in the office . im not sure whether my supervisor just fired her on a whim or if it was coming from the higher ups. i will investigate further on a day my supervisor isnt at work. the worst of it is that the woman who was fired was the only person in years who actually got together with my supervisor socially after work. no one else had the stomach to. so much for tl. but this doesnt surprise me . i just really feel bad for my co-worker because she doesnt have family to lean on. her mom is older and she cant live with her. her father is deceased. she is single. and she is injured. it will be very hard to find a new job in her condition. i know that the way she was fired is illegal ,and i told my friend this. she doesnt want to fight it because if she would be able to come back to work my supervisor would make her life miserable. i couldnt refute her,because i know it would be true. my supervisor could make someones life miserable.