ETOWAH, Tenn. – Two McMinn County nursing aides say they were fired for a social media post joking about the elderly.
WTVC-TV reports Cassie Moses and Symara Rakestraw say they were fired from Etowah Health Care Center after posting a photo saying, “Felt cute… might drop your grandma later.”
The photo was a recreation of the meme “Feeling cute, might delete later.” It shows Rakestraw sitting in a lift and Moses smiling in the front.
Kristine Blankenship wrote on Facebook that the photo was inappropriate and that she reported the women to Etowah. She told WTVC-TV her mother-in-law died in a nursing home from a “fall and failure to thrive.”
Both women say the photo wasn’t taken at Etowah and they intend to sue Blankenship for harassment .
Etowah hasn’t returned requests for comment.