r/nothingeverhappens • u/Dullea619 • 8d ago

I don't know how this is unbelievable

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u/HistoricalMeat 8d ago

I worked for a company that tried to fire people for getting pregnant. How is this unbelievable?

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u/baby_hippo97 8d ago

Same. I worked for a place that would immediately begin cutting the pregnant women's hours down or place them in increasingly dangerous situations to try to get them to quit. (It was veterinary, think force them to care for aggressive horses or large aggressive dogs)

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u/HistoricalMeat 8d ago

Our CEO/Founder/General Douche bag said in all staff meeting when a woman got pregnant “Yeah, put her on maternity leave so I can pay her to not work? Not happening.”

His HR rep/gf (who fired me after I was able to prove she was stealing from the company) “straightened” him out.

Many businesses are a shit show. You can legislate anything, but you can’t make a person a decent human being through law.

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u/Snoo_87531 8d ago

In some countries, it's really unbelievable, but only if you don't spend time on media where people from USA talk about their lives

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u/HistoricalMeat 8d ago

Just go on LinkedIn. Many of those people are too stupid to know life is more than work.

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u/Snoo_87531 8d ago

Again, in some countries, laws really protect workers so this doesn't happen. Everyone have LinkedIn lunatics, but they don't have the same power in all countries.

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u/HistoricalMeat 8d ago

Protecting workers is communism! USA! USA! USA!