How Immoral Have Mingy Corporate Bosses Become?
Mingy CEOs have been refusing to accommodate their pregnant employees.
“Mingy” is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well summing up the prevailing ethic of today’s corporate bosses.
Take mingy CEOs of multibillion-dollar powerhouses like Amazon and 7-Eleven. They’ve been refusing to accommodate even the simplest needs of — get this — their pregnant employees.
As The New York Times reports, women who are heavy with child can suffer acute health crises if they’re on their feet too long. For example, a pregnant Amazon warehouse worker in upstate New York became breathless and lightheaded, so her doctor told her to work sitting down periodically. She got a chair and felt better. But uh-uh, an Amazon manager took her chair away and insisted she stand! This caused her to be hospitalized several times. Then, Amazon fired her for having too many medical absences.
Or take the 27-year-old pregnant check-out clerk at Speedway, the gas........
