It’s extremely rare that the working conditions of a freight company makes the national news outside of the usual industry media outlets, but that changed recently with an investigative podcast by the New York Times about XPO Logistics.

“The Human Toll of Instant Delivery” featured an extended interview with Memphis XPO warehouse worker Tasha Murrell. She described sweltering working conditions where warehouse temperatures frequently surpassed one hundred degrees, and shifts that regularly lasted fourteen to fifteen hours with few, if any, breaks. She and her coworkers spent their grueling shifts packing the products for many Fortune 500 companies, including Verizon, Nike, and Disney. XPO has ten such facilities in Memphis.

As someone who writes regularly about America’s brutal workplace, Murrell’s description of what came next was shocking. When Tasha told her supervisor that she was pregnant and needed a job accommodation from the heavy lifting she was currently doing, a request supported by her doctor, she was told that she didn’t need any more children and to get a “fucking abortion.” Soon afterwards Tasha had a miscarriage at home and returned to work within a week.