Tennessee nursing aides fired after Facebook post

ETOWAH, Tenn. (AP) — Two Tennessee 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.