India, Dec. 15 -- A woman, in a Reddit post, alleged workplace insensitivity, claiming that the director of a mental health NGO in Mumbai brutally rejected her request to skip a Sunday workshop due to "unbearable" period pain.

"We have online workshops every Sunday (smh) with another NGO, despite only having Monday to Friday 8-4pm working days. This time, we held a training program for staff at a college which lasted for two days, fri and sat 9am to 4.30pm. I had no choice but to attend, despite dying from the pain because of my period but I still finished my responsibilities," the woman wrote.

She added, "I requested for someone in our team to take the Sunday 1-hr weekly workshop and this is what the director told me. No 'take care' or...