MIAMI – A Walmart employee who missed 37 shifts and blamed her interpreter has lost her lawsuit, with a federal judge calling her argument unreasonable.

Judge Robin Rosenberg on Aug. 27 ruled against Sindy Jean, a Creole woman whose interpreter provided his own email address as the best way to contact her. This wasn’t Walmart’s fault, Rosenberg ruled in granting the company summary judgment.

Jean had suffered a workplace injury but when her Workers’ Comp leave was denied, she was supposed to send her medical records in to justify Family and Medical Leave Act time off.