"Three absences and I fire them, right?". I heard it exactly like that in a conversation with the owner of a gastronomic SME who had an employee missing work often. I had to stop him in his tracks: in Argentina that rule does not exist. There is no article in the LCT (Labor Contract Law) that says that upon the third absence, dismissal proceeds automatically. What there is, is something much more demanding, and if you ignore it, you end up paying an indemnity you thought you had dodged. Here I explain where the myth comes from, what the law really says, and how to dismiss for absences without it backfiring.