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YEP! You do not EVER disrespect another workers Wife or ask a female if she is pregnant. Guy I used to work with did this years ago. Gal had been gone for a while. She comes back having put on some weight. She gets in elevator with him, he looks and says, "oh you are pregnant". To which she says no, just got fat. VERY uncomfortable ride in elevator. Guy was telling me she still gave him trouble about it years later. I told him he could expect it would never go away. He asked me haven't you ever asked a woman if she was pregnant? I said NO. Unless she told me first I NEVER would ask that. I don't care if she is on the floor in labor you do not ask.I understand about people being too sensitive nowadays but he possibly took it as an insult to his wife rather than a joke about Arkansas (ie personal insult to his family not just general joke).
Disrespecting someone's wife may result in much worse than getting fired so I would tread lightly in that area. Once a contractor disrespected my wife and I fired him that second. It was a very big and expensive job too. He probably thought it was a joke also, I don't know. That's just an area you don't go to, like ever.