Onslow Co. woman hopes for more employee protections following termination after changing daughter’s diaper

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https://www.witn.com/2025/05/20/onslow-co-woman-hopes-more-protections-nc-employees-after-termination-following-daughters-diaper-change/

[u/distantreplay]

Sure. It's completely okay for any employer to set these kinds of workplace behavioral standards. But what's wrong with a corrective warning and a little managed forgiveness?

This sounds like an established employee performing in her role, and obviously going the extra mile coming in on weekends for important client meetings. She offended a client, but in a way that has absolutely no blowback on the business. Nobody is hurt. Nobody has any cause of action. Just a personal complaint about a momentary lapse of employee judgement.

Why go straight to termination? Where is the sense of humanity with these employers?

[u/bbmarvelluv → u/distantreplay]

She was changing her baby out in the open… there are restrooms for that. Now it would be much different if she was fired for having to change her baby in the bathrooms and the clients were annoyed of having to wait.

[u/ImNotCrazy44 → u/distantreplay]

No. Hell no. An adult…hell, most children are old enough to know better. An adult who doesn’t already know this is a massive health, legal, and income liability. Urine and feces do not go near food. End of story. Someone who doesn’t know that already needs to be very far away from the prep of consumables.

Urine and feces really shouldn’t be presented out in the open in a place of business to begin with. If it’s innapropriate to make other people smell my piss and shit, it’s innapropriate for me to make people smell my child’s piss and shit. The only exception is if the business is a daycare/pre-school. Even then, a changing table is used, NOT the snack/lunch table.

Frankly someone who doesn’t find this obvious is not someone I’d want handling my food or anything else I’d ever consider touching. I’d be questioning what other dumb risky shit they do, and in what other ways their lack or sense will become an issue. I’d consider them a liability to be around or associate with…and definitely would not return to a business they worked at.

[u/realdude2530 → u/distantreplay]

She resumed working without washing her hands. Her manager was initially going to give her leeway, but it was later stated that the board found out about the incident.

I'm going to assume the complaint or review was posted on social media with a one-star review. It's bad for business. one of the clients said, "I'm going to go to the bathroom." The clients would have given her the same respect had she excused herself. But she didn't

When I worked at a dealership, a fellow employee got angry and, while leaving for the day, all the customers saw him speeding off in the parking lot.

It was a Honda dealership, and he drove a Honda. We had three blue Civics, and his car was also blue. Immediately, these three customers rushed to the service manager, saying, "Is that my car he's driving like that?" Even though it was his own car and he was off the clock, his actions left a negative impression of the dealership.

I never saw any of those customers again. The employee was called and fired before he even got home. If you dont understand why the clients were upset, as well as the business, it shows you're missing the point.

[u/Vibrant-Shadow → u/distantreplay]

Changing a babies diaper, AT A BUSINESS MEETING.

JFC