A San Diego woman says she was fired after a supervisor complained that her children were too noisy during work calls
Drisana Rios. Photo: @moderncalimom/Instagram When coronavirus ground life to a halt earlier this year, many working mothers found themselves facing a crushing predicament: either put their careers on hold to supervise, feed, and entertain their children around the clock or fully exhaust themselves attempting to effectively juggle two full-time jobs. Drisana Rios, a 35-year-old mother of two young children, picked the latter option — apparently to the disapproval of her employer.
According to the complaint, as reported by the New York Times, Rios experienced the most workplace friction with her supervisor, who she says was “motivated by a clear bias against mothers.” In the suit, Rios claims her supervisor repeatedly assigned her tasks with unnecessarily short deadlines and frequently scheduled meetings during lunchtime, when they knew Rios “was feeding her children, nursing, or putting her child down for a nap.
Eventually, Rios says, she was instructed to address her “time-management issues” with another supervisor, though that only made matters worse. Per the Times, this supervisor told Rios he was “tired of accommodating” her and called her “defensive.” Meanwhile, Rios hired a nanny to help her around the house, but her efforts came too late. “By the time the nanny started, Ms.
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