What's worse than having a miscarriage? Getting fired for it!
Which is exactly what happened to this attorney at the San Francisco law firm Paul Hastings. Here are the opening lines of her depature email
(which she won't get sued for writing since she passed up three months
severance pay in order to not have to agree to stay quiet).
The circumstances surrounding my departure from Paul Hastings have been
deeply disappointing. It is one thing to ignore an email sent as a
colleague is waiting to have her uterus scraped after a miscarriage,
but it is wholly another level of heartlessness to lay her off six days
after that. [Partner X] is the only one who expressed any sympathy
after my miscarriage, and I am grateful to him for that.
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