Olive Garden manager fired after time-off tirade: "If your dog died ... prove it"

An Olive Garden restaurant manager is out of a job for threatening workers for taking time off, saying those with illnesses or whose pets have died would "need to come prove it to us."

Staff at the Olive Garden in Overland Park, Kansas, were recently reprimanded by their manager for calling off work at "a staggering rate," and warned that no excuses of any sort would be tolerated in the future. 

"From now on, if you call off, you might as well go out and look for another job," the unidentified manager wrote in a message to all team members, according to a local CBS affiliate, KCTV5. "If you're sick, you need to come prove it to us. If your dog died, you need to bring him in and prove it to us."