Zott was fired because she was pregnant.#movie #film #shortvideo

[triloization]

These men are too emotional. Her arguments are logical.

[MusicloverLiz]

I live in the deep South. Each time a male coworker's wife was pregnant, he got a raise and a promotion. A pregnant female coworker got a hard time. Horrible.

[Hedge_witch]

Also, for context, the man she is referring to, Calvin, whom she had a relationship with and who worked there also, died in a freak accident.
So not only are they firing a pregnant woman for no reason other than her being pregnant, but also a grieving woman who is carrying her dead lover's child. She also didn't know she was pregnant for some time after he died.
It's a great book.

[Ernie]

Her explanation is completely reasonable and yet those idiots were still being imbeciles about it. She is bloody right! Absolutely right!

[jryland]

I was harassed & demoted in 1983 & 1986 for having planned pregnancies. After being employee of the month, employee of the quarter, employee of the year. And being promoted 3x’s in 3 yrs. Thankfully, in 1987 a job I have been waiting for opened up and I left.

[GothicMaximalist]

Years ago I lived temporarily with four other young women, we all took turns doing the shopping. I had the grocery list which included pregnancy tests for one of the women. It fell out of my pocket at work and my manager found it. He raced to the manager of the entire store and demanded I be fired because I was pregnant and therefore (in his tiny little mind) meant I could no longer be a driver (make it make sense lol). She of course came to me and told me what he did. I wish I had been wiser, I could have sued him for many things he did. He didn’t think women should be in the work place, much less auto parts, and did whatever he could to try to get me fired. Of course I wasn’t fired, and I wasn’t pregnant, the tests weren’t for me lol and he knew I lived with a bunch of women. He was too emotional, let his personal opinions get in the way of his job lol

[sharonr]

My mother was required to leave the Military when it was discovered that she was pregnant in 1950. Federal Legislation made it illegal to fire a woman for being pregnant. The Military discharged every woman that became pregnant until they were forced to stop doing so. I always found it stupid that so many women agreed with men, that a pregnant woman was incapable to working, yet she was very capable of taking care of children and maintaining a household, while pregnant. They never saw how illogical that thinking was.

[NiVi]

"You're the one who got knocked up!" ... The idea that this would ultimately release men from their responsibility is not only deeply unfair and discriminatory, but purely illogical, too. When a plane runs out of gas due to miscalculations (sorry for comparing pregnancy to a plane crash, I'm just trying to make a point), the department that fueled the machine is just as responsible as the control center that messed up the maintenance.

[margarethagerman]

This was standard operating procedure at many corporations in the US until the early/mid-70’s, and it took federal legislation to stop it.

[cookiekhoala]

This is Lessons in Chemistry, for anyone wondering.

[ValanraEden]

This still happens to this day, it's just more hidden. you can’t fire someone for being pregnant, but you CAN suddenly get SUPER nitpicky about her job and writing her up and then fire her while citing at will employment to cover your arse. And if she doesn't have the knowledge or resilience to drag a company to court they just get away with it.

[PenelopePeriwinkle]

I got fired for being pregnant. First it was a letter sent to my home on a Friday stating I was terminated for being “uncooperative”. Then when I filed for unemployment benefits, they told them it was because I was abusing sick time. Neither were true. Well which is it. I got my benefits.

[SEK-COJO_inmyheart]

About 8 years ago when interviewing for an internal position i was well qualified for, a senior manager on the interview panel, in front of other panel members that included HR, questioned me about my ability to be able to manage the expected overtime hours because i had young children at home! Not one other manager or the HR rep stepped in to indicate the question was inappropriate or discriminatory. I responded, well, assuming you're asking all your interviewees if they feel they can ensure meeting the obligations if the job, yes i can fo so. Told the guy, you know my husband is a stay-at-home dad. Plus, im already on salary and already work well over a standard work week consistently. It was the pointed stare while saying this that gave him the deserved uncomfortable feeling. Didnt get the job, gave it to another woman who they asked to "interview" for the job. Best part was she and her husband had a baby within the year and she was off for 2 months!

[Tyger-Lee]

Men have no business telling women what to do with their own bodies. I completely agree with her. The men who refuse to be responsible for their own part in creating a baby should be held responsible as well.

[cici]

It is sad to say that so many women still have the fear of being fired or treated differently when pregnant lingering over them.

[kevin-tui]

What's worse is that women still experience this. Sometimes shit happens, condoms break, birth control pills can fail to work, one might have been assaulted. It's not always someone's 'fault' they get pregnant. It shouldn't be used against them even if it was 100% planned either.

Edit: You commenters that are aware of how patriarchal society still oppresses women in modern society, _including_ the west, give me hope that we may be able to fight this crap.

[JustMe-oims]

This still happens today. I worked for an OB/GYN. When they found out I was pregnant they assumed my boss (a man) would be my doctor. I felt uncomfortable with my boss looking at my nether regions. When I told my office manager (the doctor’s wife) that I already had another Dr. They fired me on the grounds that I “did not fit their office”. The stress of losing my job as my husband and I were just starting out in our marriage and renting and school loans etc., I almost miscarried and ended up on strict bed rest for 6 weeks. Everyone told me to sue, but I chose not to. What goes around comes around. Found out later that doctor was fooling around with the nurses at the hospital. I’m glad I didn’t fit in, intheir office.

[kimibowen]

In 1984 my boss tried to get me to quit my job because I was pregnant. My doctor even told him I was perfectly able to work, but he wasn't having it. He devised a plan to have a "lay-off due to slow business... However after the lay off announcement, where several were laid off, he told the others it was really only me that was laid off and the others could stay. It took until my baby was 6 months old, but I received 14 checks all in the same day for 14 weeks of unemployment.. He had told me "We don't participate in unemployment " I said well you do now..😏

[Dbb-]

If anyone thinks that this is in the past let me help you. Dave Ramsey fired one of his workers for being pregnant out of wedlock. At the same time one of his podcast speakers was having an affair at work. For a while they looked the other way but long enough for the girl to wage an unlawful termination suit against his company. This was in 2021 I believe.

[patriciamcgarr]

Great series adaptation of the book Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmas. The author’s male colleague took credit for her work so she went home and vented by writing this story. Submitted it to a publisher it a bidding war started. The author also knew how to row. She used chemistry books from that time period too.