Ok 411, are you REALLY saying that maternity leave is 'gaming'?
No one is allowed to take more than what the law says or what the company policy allows, so if you are within the law and only given what those laws/policies say you are entitled to, then please, please, please explain how that is gaming?
Perhaps calling in and saying one is pregnant when one is not and trying to take advanatage of what a pregnant lady is allowed could be gaming, but otherwise surely it is following procedures?
When I knoced at the HR door (as you put it), yes I accepted their job for a fair salary, and they accepted me as a woman knowing full well what the law and their own company policy on pregnancy and maternity leave is and that I am a woman and one day may well request it.
Don't blame the people for following the rules, either change the rules or accept them.
Your shallow and hurtful allegation that I am a 'gamer' is poor and unjustified, you dont know me or my work ethic nor my relationship with my company, you I am afraid are sad, little man and I am shocked to hear how you agree and condone such ethics as to fail someone before they have stepped in to a check of some nature because you dont agree with some other point of view of theirs.
I think that is disgraceful and on top of being a sad little man you are a man of poor moral standing to agree with such a method of dismissal.