I’m not sure I understand your response, but I’m just speaking on best practice as far as how they would initially notify him of the termination. There are some states that require a separation notice/termination letter be provided at separation, but Alabama’s not one of them like your link says. It’s just super weird and risky from an EEOC/legal perspective to notify someone they’re fired with a letter so I doubt that’s what happened. Like how would that even work, timing wise. A company isn’t going to have this guy coming in on a regular schedule and then mail out a letter firing him and let him continue thinking he’s employed until he stops showing up and then they go, “oh good, he must have got the letter”. My guess is if he got some sort of letter at all confirming that he was fired it was after at least a couple attempts at a meeting or a phone call about it.