I wanted to share my husban's story with you. He worked for a company but wasn't satisfied because he made very little money and worked a lot more hours than me (I work les hours and have more payment because I am a teacher with a degree whereas he was a senior IT something). So when I was 7 months pregnant, he decided to change companies, after 7 years in that position. At first everything went fine, he was making 150% of what he made at his previous job and was being trained for this new one. The people seemed nice, they seemed to care for their enployees wellbeing. In that line they mantained the health care we used to have at the previous job so we could keep the same doctors during my pregnancy. Everything seemed fine.
After almost three months of trainning he was introduced to his boss, who was american. He demanded his employees to have rotating schedules, something that is very uncommon in my country in this kind of job. Since they already had signed contracts with fixed schedules my husband and his team refused. And were fired, in the spot. Just before the three months “trial time”, so they could execute inmediatly without severance pay. We were flabbergasted, and our daughter was just 1 month old. But it had a bittersweet ending at least: they mispelled my husband's name in the dismissal telegram, and since it arrived after the three months, they had to pay severance (not much but almost a month's worth wage). And my husband decided to switch careers and study teaching. So at least, now he is happier than ever, even when we have some economic struggles because he is studying now.