‘She's going [to] the hospital to be induced 12 hours from now’: Woman gets fired the day before she has a baby, internet reacts

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Jan 21, 2024 4:00 PM EST

Does anyone else smell a lawsuit coming? It's pretty hard to imagine sillier circumstances to fire someone than to fire a pregnant employee mere hours before they are going to give birth. Perhaps this boss has some extremely backward sense of right and wrong, but you would think someone else at this company would inform him that pregnant women are a protected class.

What's even crazier is that this woman's husband also works at the same company, so now there is just bad blood all around that toxic work environment. I guess you could say in the long run, they are lucky to get out of there. However, when their employer inevitably loses a lawsuit, they will be extra lucky because now their kid will have the beginnings of a college fund.

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about an employee who was curiously fired for doing everything correctly.