What were they thinking? 'Leave your evidence after the beep'

It’s bad enough for a manager to make blatantly discriminatory comments to an employee — even worse when the comments are permanently recorded in the employee’s voice mail.
A woman working as a server at a restaurant learned she was pregnant. She mentioned the pregnancy to the owner’s daughter, who also worked there. The daughter recommended she not tell anyone.
However, the daughter told the owner. That’s when the owner called the employee and left a voice mail about his plans to discriminate: “The first time any sign of that pregnancy shows up, you’re through,” he said. According to him, she’d be able to keep her job “through the third month and then it’s time to go.”
Soon after that, the woman was fired.
Not surprisingly, she sued. She played the voice mail during her trial, and the court ruled in her favor.
Cite: EEOC v. J.H. Hein Corp.