‘She’s having a baby’: HR turns disciplinary action on manager after he fired pregnant employee for missing two consecutive shifts

Strict workplace policies are often designed to keep businesses running smoothly. But when personal emergencies and medical situations become involved, managers are sometimes forced to make difficult decisions with limited information. That tension became the focus of a viral X thread after a manager was reportedly written up by HR for terminating an employee who missed two shifts while dealing with a pregnancy-related medical situation.

According to the X post shared by career coach Simon Ingari, the issue began after a manager processed a termination for an employee marked as a “no-call, no-show” after she allegedly missed two consecutive shifts without contacting the workplace.

During a conversation with HR, the manager defended the decision by saying he believed he was simply following company policy.



However, the HR representative reportedly argued that the situation involved a medical and maternity-related emergency, saying the employee had been terminated “without any warning and without anyone notifying her.”

The manager was then informed that an official write-up would be placed on his record.

The exchange became tense when the manager questioned why disciplinary action was necessary if the employee was ultimately keeping her job.

The conversation ended with the manager saying he felt he was being punished for simply following company policy. But HR reportedly argued that ‘policy still requires managers to use judgment, especially in medical and maternity-related situations.’

When the manager said he had never been trained for situations like this, HR responded that this was exactly why the company was now addressing the issue through an official write-up and additional training “before something even worse happens in the future.”