An assistant director of residential services of a nonprofit social services agency has lost a claim for hostile work environment and retaliation after she was fired for taking two days of unauthorized leave. The employee was advised in the employee handbook that she did not read thoroughly that she was not entitled to vacation days until she had been employed for more than four months. About three months after she started work, she requested a Friday and Monday vacation leave, which was authorized by the secretary to the Director of Human Services because the Director was personally unavailable. When she returned to work on Tuesday, she was fired for abandoning her job. According to the...