Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I made this a throwaway for controversial. TL;DR at bottom.

Back in October 2018 an employee named ‘L’ became pregnant, she was about 2 months at this time. About 3 weeks later she said she couldn’t lift more than 10 lbs. After about a month of this the store director actually required her to get an HR form filled out and brought back, this was around the end of November.  Once she brought this paper in all of the problems began. She started weighing things, fryer baskets, the wedge bags and basically anything she is able to lift even with this note, she did her best to not do it. She wouldn’t use arm strength to lift a basket up, would turn oven timers off and fryer timers off essentially burning food and causing shrink. 

For almost a month(December) I was scheduled the days my manger had off, but with her. I did 98% of the work day by myself. Filled sales floor, salad case, hot food items(whole birds, fried chicken, and an 8 pan wing bar). She help customers and packaged cold protein, but I still had to do more than half of that also. I basically ran the dept twice a week, all myself. I finally had enough and started looking at other stores to transfer to since my Store Manager didn’t seem to care, then he decided to tell our manager she could only work 11-5 shifts. Everyone started to have their share of annoyances with her. L would leave the dept to talk to the floral supervisor(who subsequently is the babies grandmother) and started taking 12-20 minutes to even get behind the counter in our dept. She’s been taking phone calls on the clock, eating food in the dept and basically breaking all the rules that we all abide by. There probably more that I don’t remember and I’m typing this fast on my break, but basically myself and the dept head included have had enough. We called HR Saturday morning and made an investigation to have her removed.

I didn’t mention about her being on her phone or eating or any of that petty bullshit. I just simply stated company policy and the liability that she can cause. In the application it states you are required to lift more than 45-50 lbs several times an hour, be able to perform all tasks without any limitation, which includes lifting, cooking, etc. I also didn’t give out any personal information but made it clear the whole dept doesn’t run at optimal speed when she’s back here. I stated that when I have to drop the tasks I’m doing consecutively it just bogs my work flow down enormously. After calling and noticing my manager clearly upset, I’m starting to feel kind of bad. She won’t be fired because that’s discrimination, but she does know how to cashier since she did that for months before the removed her from that for “being to much drama.” 


TL;DR Pregnant employee got a doctors note for a lift limit of 10lbs so she didn’t have to work and has milked it for far too long. Requirement for the dept I work in is 45-50 minimum and being able to perform all work tasks laid out in the dept without issue.