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Little League

Mom Fired After Skipping Work To Go See Son Play In Little League World Series

by Dan Fogarty | 1:14 pm, August 27th, 2012

In possibly the most un-American story we’ve come across today, the mother of a Little Leaguer was fired from her job as an office manager for a CPA when she chose to take off from work and cheer on her son’s team in the West Regional.

Billie Ann Tomei is the mother of Cole and wife of Trevor Tomei, who’s an assistant coach for the Petaluma National Little Leaguers. She had sick days, but her boss was out of the office and needed her to cover.

Mrs. Tomei essentially told her boss to go screw himself.

“(My boss) wouldn’t let me take time off,” Tomei told the Press Democrat. “He told me, ‘If you go, write yourself your last check.’ So I wrote myself my last check.”

Do not mess with a dedicated Little League mom. They will cut you, or, at the very least, leave your office without a manager to go cheer on their kid in a national tournament.

Petaluma National lost to Tennessee in the U.S. championship game, but at least Cole Tomei knows that his mom is awesome. (Fiscally responsible? Maybe not. She did kind of quit her job to see a little kids’ baseball tournament. But, yes, she’s definitely attained “awesome mom” status, which is more important than having a job anyway.)



  • Serena Joy

    She had sick days? Really? Her boss was out, she was told she had to work, and because she had sick days and was not sick it’s okay to act as if she were being persecuted?

  • Anonymous

    Sick days is irrelevant. Any employer with a pulse and any inkling of an understanding how big a deal this event is would insist the mother take the time off, even if she didn’t have vacation time. It’s not just a “little kids baseball tournament”. It’s a worldwide tourney with 8,000 teams and 100,000 participants that every kids dreams about from the time they are 8 till they are 12. 16 of those 8,000 teams reach Williamsport and this team came in 3rd place. You only get one chance (your 12-year-old year) and you get no warning. You win States one day and you leave for Regionals two days later. You win Regionals and you leave for Williamsport the next morning. Whatever business this jackhole was conducting was NO WAY more important than this.

  • LJM_Fairport

    Not enough info to judge. She was given the ultimatum at Regionals. Did she already take time off for states and sectionals, which both require travel and several days. From the time they win districts to the time they finish in Williamsport is about a month. No employer can be expected to let an office manager for that long. My guess is, if she was a great employee, the boss would have found a way to make it work.


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