Woman Left Jobless After Hiring Manager Rescinds Job Offer When Discovering She Is Pregnant, She Gets Accused of Intentionally Withholding Information

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 7, 2024 11:00 PM EST

As women, we want to prove to the rest of the world that we are just as capable as men and can be just as successful, especially when it comes to our careers. We constantly need to fight to show our worth, and I am sorry, but stories like this one prove that in some ways, we can never be truly equal to men.

It is no secret that motherhood and successful careers sometimes do not go hand in hand. Even starting with the very first step of motherhood–the pregnancy. Being pregnant, then later having to take time off to care for your newborn, is the first obstacle to maintaining your path in the work life. But having to look for a job while you're pregnant? Sounds like a mission impossible to me.

That is why, even though it is clear that the woman in this Reddit story was definitely trying to hide her pregnancy when she was interviewing for a job, I simply cannot blame her. I feel for anyone whose simple biology gets in the way of everything else in their lives, and I fear for the day that might happen to me too.

Keep scrolling to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of a woman who refused to cook for Thanksgiving because of a dog.

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  • 01
    But when I got the offer today, I told them I was pregnant. I asked if they could tell (genuinely did my best to make it obvious. Wore an open jacket, pants were hiked up mid stomach, even fitted blouse, even tried walking so my stomach would stand out).
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    I guess I messed up by not telling a company I interviewed with I was pregnant in an interview. Now they might rescind the offer.
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    It's really what the title says. I'm exactly 35 weeks pregnant today but I have the misfortune of not looking like it. No one can tell I'm even carrying a kid, and I had the same experience with my first kid last summer 2023.
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  • 04
    Interview went fine. I actually got offered the job. But they asked me a question that I didn't really know how to answer. They asked me if I could start the first week of December.
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  • 05
    The answer is yes. I literally can start and probably finish training before I have my kid (December 19th). So, I said yes. But when I got the offer today, I told them I was pregnant. I asked
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  • 06
    if they could tell (genuinely did my best to make it obvious. Wore an open jacket, pants were hiked up mid stomach, even fitted blouse, even tried walking so my stomach would stand out). I was
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  • 07
    hoping she would say yes because then it would mean they had an inkling I was pregnant before offering the job but she said...no. And I'm not even sure if she can say yes to that question
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  • 08
    for legal reasons. But I already knew the answer. I told them the only reason I said I could start on December 1st (still can) is because it's not a lie. I
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  • 09
    literally can. There's nothing preventing me from walking through the door on December 1st and doing onboarding. So now I'm waiting to see if I still have the offer. She said she'd call
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  • 10
    me back at the end of the day because while the start date isn't the issue, not the main one | think, but that they need someone to start right away and I guess it's the leave that's the problem. Money isn't an issue.
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  • 11
    My husband makes enough to cover our bills and I'm on his insurance, so I wouldn't even be taking their benefits. I don't need them.
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  • 12
    So now I probably lost out on a job after 6 months of looking. I hate my life. Edit for more context: I applied to this particular job October 2nd. Listed start date was November
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    4th. I don't know why they delayed hiring for this position. I did not ask. So I forgot about this job anyway until they called me last week for an interview. I apply for 2 jobs a week and will continue to do so through mid
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  • 14
    December when my unemployment runs out. It's part of the requirements to get unemployment. I was applying. for 10+ a day until the start of October. I was laid off back in May, found out I was pregnant in
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  • 15
    April and was told 2 weeks after I found I was pregnant I'd be laid off. So I do have to apply, accept interviews offered, and if offered a job, try to take it, or I risk losing unemployment until then.
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    That's why I said I don't need a job during maternity leave, and we can get by on my husband's salary and his benefits and my savings and my parents are
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  • 17
    willing to help. But if I stop applying to jobs, I lose unemployment. A risk to applying to jobs is...getting an interview.
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    Paolaheldmyhand Top 1% Commenter Most likely illegal for them to revoke the offer, but you will not have worked enough hours to qualify for FMLA. Your job won't be protected while you're out.
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    bored_ryan2 For everyone saying that what the company is doing is illegal because it's discrimination for OP being pregnant, it's nowhere near that cut and dry.
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    This employer is going to say they're rescinding the offer because they have a position they need filled immediately, and OP will be needing several weeks of leave in their first month, and this puts an undue burden on the company to have that role unfilled.
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  • 21
    OP likely will not have any vacation or sick days available, won't qualify for FMLA, and probably wouldn't qualify for parental leave if the company offers it.
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  • 22
    The reason why the employer probably didn't immediately rescind the offer is because they're considering if they would be legally at risk if they rescind the offer (which they may not be at legal risk at all). If they don't
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  • 23
    rescind the offer, it's very possible they will just fire OP when she has to go on leave, because OP has no accrued time off.
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    jejsjhabdjf I have no sympathy for companies but you're kind of acting like you didn't intentionally leave out that important information so I don't think you're a victim either
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    belooga_whael I don't understand why you would be trying to get a job so close to your due date? It would be a different story earlier in the pregnancy, I think, but barely a month before a due date that could easily be less than said month? Just doesn't really make sense.
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