Her partner is having a baby, and she is on the phone listening to rumors and then following up on them? Let's pretend for a moment that this was a man, not a woman. How would we be reacting? I suspect we would be less than sympathetic to a man who was talking business on a cell phone while his wife was in labor.

So, a person hears a rumor they are about to be fired, while their partner is in labor they call their boss and demand to know.

The boss "begs her to talk face to face" but the person refuses and demands to know right then.

The boss then say, yep, we're letting you go.

And the Schmendrick is the Boss?

Clearly, they were waiting for after the delivery to give the bad news. Now if you want to say she's being fired for being a woman, or being a lesbian, that might be something for Broadsheet, but "Bitchy Studio Head, Demands answer on Firing rumor as spouse bears down and wonder's why they got married in the first place" is not.

Do some research and get back to us with something other than petty gossip.

According to other Los Angeles Times coverage, Jacobson called her boss, studio chairman Dick Cook, from the hospital looking for reassurance that the rumors she'd heard about her pending axing weren't true. Was her job safe?

This is just whining, just like that awful Prada book. Excuse me, but who asked her to call the office while she was in the hospital with her partner? Why would it have been better for her boss to lie to her over the phone, or to wait for a face to face meeting to say, yes, you are fired when the person called him directly. So it's not like Disney called her up while she was in the middle of supporting her belabored partner, or cooing over the baby in the ward when her boss called to say congrats on the new little tyke, by the way, clean out your desk, you're fired. It's not Disney's fault that the people who knew let the info get out, every company I've ever worked for there were always rumors when people at the top were about to be canned. She could have ignored the rumors and waited, but she didn't. Don't paint this like evil Disney just waited till she was in the hospital awaiting a new child and said aha, now we can fire her, she is gonna be a mom! Don't paint the picture that she was fired because she had the audacity to attend the birth of her child.

She heard rumors, she called for confirmation. It is not the job of any corporation to make their employment decisions based on that particular employee's domestic events, unless those domestic events are the reason they are being fired, which in this case I do not know because I haven't read anywhere why she was let go and I'm not going to assume it's because they were wary of a mother in their ranks.

I'm not sure I follow why Disney acted so abominably. It seems to me if we should be questioning anyone's behavior, it should be Jacobson's -- she was the one who picked up the phone from the maternity ward to ask about her job while she was in labor. How, precisely, is Broadsheet laying the blame at Disney's door for this one? Would it have been better for her boss to lie to her about it, only to drop the axe a few days later after giving her false reassurances? I don't suspect that Broadsheet would be any happier with that outcome. Or perhaps the point of the story is to advance the notion that a preganant women is in too delicate a condition to handle bad news, and any failure to treat her with exquisite TLC, even when she asks you not to, is sexist behavior?

If women are going to demand equal treatment as high-level executives, we'd better be prepared to act like high-level executives. You don't get to toss your curls and cry foul because your boss acts like your boss and not your daddy.

SHE called HIM. But it's his fault? Desperate for a story or what?

Jacobson wasn't the one who was pregnant. Did you read the piece?

As made clear by the Times article, the manner of firing had nothing to do with gender. This is how things go in Hollywood (or Burbank as the case may be). She called from the hospital; she forced the issue at the hospital. The boss's only alternative was to lie.

Like firing a 33-year employee two days before Christmas, not telling people they were fired until after it was printed in the newspapers, or just showing up to work and finding your chair gone. It was funny in *Office Space,* but apparently these hotshots can't be bothered to show enough decency to fire people face to face.

This headline is monstrously misleading. Stop spinning the story to make it look like she was a victim of an evil patriarchy. She was an executive w ho got fired, and it was HER choice to make the call from a maternity ward and insist on getting the news at that moment.

She is an executive that got fired, and if she was a victim of anyone's poor taste/timing, it was her own. This kind of fraudulent issue positioning gives feminism a bad name.

Jacobson is the one at fault, for calling while her wife was in labor. I hope that their health insurance wasn't cut off at the moment of the dismissal, or else that was one expensive phone call.

High-powered six+figure salaried exec is let go in less than respectful terms. Wait, I'll hold the presses while this first-ever executive to get fired in a shitty way makes its way to the front page.

Are we suddenly upset with the status quo of the executive world because she is a woman? Because she is a lesbian? Because she works for a company that also markets to children? WTF, Salon? Shall we take up a collection for her, or what? Do you stupid fucks have any idea how many thousands of low-income, poor, single mothers lost their jobs is even more degrading ways just last WEEK? Please, let us know when you give a fuck about non-rich, non-white women here in America. I won't hold my breath.