> I am the single mother who closed 17K in month one and 19K in month two.

This needs more context. Is this amount of sales considered incredible, very good, average, below average or significantly below average in Yelp world?

It's one thing if the author was a top-notch performer terminated for family circumstances beyond her control, it would be a different story if she was under-performing, perhaps on internal probation, and termination coincided with a series of tragic family events.

Some companies are known to stack-rank and trim their sales force en masse.