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Source: ABC News
Kristi Rifkin had been working at T-Mobile Call Center in Nashville for four years when she got pregnant with her third child. She says she loved her job.
... According to Rifkin, the pregnancy-her second (she has one stepson)-was a difficult one, and she was going to the doctor twice a week, seeing both a regular obstetrician and a high-risk obstetrician. She was also required to drink "tons and tons" of water - which, in turn, resulted in frequent trips to the bathroom. This did not sit well with T-Mobile, she said.
... Finally, she said, her supervisor pulled her aside and told her to get a note from her doctor explaining that she needed to go the bathroom often. "At that point, I thought my head was going to launch off my shoulders," said Rifkin. "'Are you serious? I need to get a note from my doctor to go to the toilet?' This is a basic biological need.'"
... She finally went on the Family Medical Leave Act, which requires employers to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees, seven weeks before her son, Ian, was born, on May 14, 2010. A month and a half after she returned to work she was fired, she said.
Read more: http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/pregnant-t-mobile-employee-clocked-toilet-100119456.html
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)They will pay in lost revenue.
They'd better turn this around like right now.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Urinating is a human right that trumps any clock or schedule. Monsters. Where my company sucks on fair pay at least a pregant woman has a golden uterus and can just do what she needs to do.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)This is just absurd.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Alden Knisbacher
(1 post)Can't this be crowd-sourced and take on a twitter meme for example, change T-Mobile to "Mobile-T's" for mobile toilets, change their logo, etc. -- crowdsource your local T-Mobile store by renting a Porta-potty, etc. . . .
just because Tennessess is a right to (fuck your) work (ers) state does not mean that the internet can't shame T-Mobile on a global level. There is another level of irony herre -- in Germany -- T-Mobile's headquarters, they would never get away with this. . .
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)so its suck that they treat their agents so poorly
RudynJack
(1,044 posts)Nobody loves working at a T-mobile call-center.
never mind. read the article, dumbass
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)This will be my standard response to every story like this. Shit like this will only continue and get worse so long as people do not form labor unions and vote for pols that make it easier to do so.
The corporations that we work for hate our guts and look to replace us with cheaper workers every minute of the day. They are well organized and have a lot of money to fight you. The only way that we can get back at them is to form unions. Consumer boycotts don't work nearly as well.