#I was fired from my job because my kids were noisy during calls on lockdown

A mom who claims she was fired from her job over her noisy kids is now suing her former employer for discrimination.

Self-proclaimed mommy blogger Dris Wallace, who goes by her maiden name Rios, had been doing her finance job from home since mid-March due to the coronavirus outbreak while home-schooling and caring for her two children, ages 1 and 4.

Rios, who lives in San Diego, California, said she tried to keep her kids occupied during conference calls and meetings with clients, but sometimes, the youngsters could be heard talking or crying in the background.

“The first week we were assigned to work from home due to COVID in mid-March, the comments started coming in,” Rios, 35, told The Post. “He was setting expectations and didn’t want to hear children on calls. He wanted complete silence.”

In an essay on ScaryMommy.com, the Modern Cali Mom blogger claimed her supervisor’s expectations were unrealistic for a working mom without an exclusive caretaker during a pandemic. Yet, Rios claimed her boss continued to allegedly “harass” her and reprimanded her multiple times for allowing her children to interrupt her calls.

In response to the allegations, a spokesperson for her former company, Hub International, told The Post that while they can’t comment on pending litigation, “HUB is proud to have successfully transitioned 90% of its 12,000 employees to working remotely from home throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Rios maintained that clients never once raised an issue.

“I continued to be available throughout the whole day. There were late nights so I could meet deadlines. I was a team player, and I did it with two young kids.”

She tried to set boundaries by taking calls during her children’s nap time, between 1 and 4 p.m., but she claimed her boss continued to schedule appointments for her during lunchtime “when both of my kids were hungry and impatient,” she wrote.

She said she spent countless dollars on crafts, toys and anything else that might keep them busy — and appease her boss.

“I lost count of how much I spent. Every week I was spending money to keep them occupied. It was insane.”

By May, the situation was “escalating.”

“‘We can’t keep accommodating your work schedule,’” she recalled her boss saying. “‘No other account executive on the team has this issue. Your role as an account executive is to be present to our client, so you need to take care of your kid situation.’”

When she asked if he wanted her to lock her baby in a room, he allegedly responded, “Figure it out,” which she said reduced her to tears.

“It was so heartless. I felt degraded as a mother. Who says that? He is a father himself. That was a breaking moment for me,” said Rios.

Her employers, whom she said “have teenage children and stay-at-home wives,” took the liberty of enrolling Rios in time management training, which she considered an insult.

Finally, in late May, she raised her concerns with the company’s human resources department. Their representative said, “There are two sides to every story,” according to Rios, then abruptly ended the call.

On June 2, she had another meeting with HR — that she thought would lead to a resolution.

“I thought this would be good, and they are going to figure it out. I wanted to work there.” Instead, they reportedly told her they should part ways because she wasn’t happy. The decision was made due to financial cut-backs amid the pandemic, she said she was told.

She filed a lawsuit on June 5 and is currently looking for another job, but many companies are on hiring freezes.

Since she came out with her story, she said she’s heard of other families struggling to balance work and home life during the lockdown.

“There are other mothers out there who are afraid to speak out,” she said. “I just hope we can find justice for myself and any other mom who has been treated this way.”