Since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, many employees have lost their job. For those working for the microblogging site, this was a huge shock. Stories of sudden layoffs have been haunting readers across the globe. While some employees were spotted celebrating their lost jobs, some others were heading out to take a legal action.
Hearing that some of those who are being laid off from Twitter are pregnant. And they don’t know what severance or insurance coverage they’ll have moving forward. Just so much uncertainty right now on top of losing your job…
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) November 4, 2022
And amongst this list was a visible percentage of pregnant employees. Sharing her story on Twitter was Rachel Bonn, an eight-months pregnant woman, talking about her sudden exit from the team, hours after Musk took over Twitter. Amongst the list of employees who were handed over their exit notice, Rachel said her access to her work laptop was suddenly cut off. Bonn who worked at Twitter as a content marketing manager in the San Francisco branch spoke candidly about her sudden exit from the team through a tweet.
https://twitter.com/RachBonn/status/1588405980655558656?s=20&t=7081yRouvX-Rw0WE24sLVQ
Accompanying the tweet was a picture of Bonn with her nine-month-old son, posing at the Halloween party organised by Twitter. Rachel also took a dig at Musk and said, “Really the last day Twitter was Twitter.” Another amongst the list of pregnant employees, who were laid off from Twitter was–Malabika Das, who bid her team adieu, and mentioned, “Bummer that this happened while 8 months pregnant.”
Proud to 've been part of the #Tweeps community! Built valuable relationships, learned from extremely talented engineers and got to know some amazing people in the 3 yrs I spent here. Bummer that this happened while 8 months pregnant. Still, #LoveWhereYouWorked! ♥️
— Malabika Das (@das_malabika) November 4, 2022
https://twitter.com/cryptolinguale/status/1588801633021964288?s=20&t=DlwdhBob6L9P48lW5L4gvQ
Not just Das, but a part of those 3,700 employees who lost their jobs was six months pregnant–Shennan Lu. The ex-employee remembered her amazing experience of working at the organisation. Further talking about the alarming discrimination. She talked about how her performance since the last quarter was way better than her male contemporaries, but still, she was laid off instead of them.
https://twitter.com/lu_shennan/status/1588414419155161090?s=20&t=DlwdhBob6L9P48lW5L4gvQ
Reacting to these stories, tweeple seemed concerned about the complications that many of these pregnant employees would be facing, in terms of financial security, and work during this crucial phase in their lives.
#LoveWhereYouWorked #LoveWhereYouWork solidarity to all of you folks. Reading some of you tweeting about losing jobs while being pregnant and losing access to health care and life-saving medicines.
Hope the below threads are useful.
Also Elon – get in the bin https://t.co/hB2E9ffRdj— Shobnom Haque (@Shobnom_Haque) November 4, 2022
https://twitter.com/NockFourSix/status/1588498676829556737?s=20&t=DlwdhBob6L9P48lW5L4gvQ
Warning, some of the stories might make you cry. People being cut off abruptly, some pregnant, some sick, some at stages of their life where stability is critical, some not sure what will become of their health insurance, etc. Sad day for the blue. #LoveWhereYouWorked
— Chidi Okereke (@Chydee) November 4, 2022
We think this is an inhumane move by the new team under Musk. This sudden firing of employees has also led to a lot of chaos in the internal working system of the microblogging site, with some deserving employees on higher designations, shown the way out. According to reports, Musk fired 50% of his global workforce, yesterday. The reason behind this move is apparently his vision to cut costs and generate more revenue from advertisements, which drastically dropped on Twitter.
