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Boss avoided me all afternoon, I assume because he thought I was quitting

I’m pregnant and parts of my job will need to change to accommodate that, as well as the obvious I may have appointments I need to go to thing, so I wanted to chat to my boss about it this afternoon. However earlier in the day a situation occurred, and I think he thought I wanted to quit. I work on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and I work by myself. My department should always have three people but currently it’s just me. There’s also someone that works Tuesday and Thursday. Next week a full timer was supposed to start but overnight last night she withdrew. On Monday, Tuesday girl messaged me saying she can’t work next Tuesday and asked if I could swap. I can’t, I already have appointments and my daughter isn’t in daycare that day. So I told her that, but with the new girl it should be fine.…


I’m pregnant and parts of my job will need to change to accommodate that, as well as the obvious I may have appointments I need to go to thing, so I wanted to chat to my boss about it this afternoon. However earlier in the day a situation occurred, and I think he thought I wanted to quit. I work on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and I work by myself. My department should always have three people but currently it’s just me. There’s also someone that works Tuesday and Thursday.

Next week a full timer was supposed to start but overnight last night she withdrew. On Monday, Tuesday girl messaged me saying she can’t work next Tuesday and asked if I could swap. I can’t, I already have appointments and my daughter isn’t in daycare that day. So I told her that, but with the new girl it should be fine. Suddenly new girl isn’t coming so here’s what happened today.

Boss – so you chatted with Tuesday girl about next Tuesday right?

Me – yes I did

Boss – okay so you’ll work that day

Me – I can’t, I have my car booked in for servicing and appointments and have to watch my daughter

Boss – just tell the servicing people to drop you here

Boss says that Tuesday girl confirmed I could work so I can’t retract that then left the room. Uhh.

Anyway I did want to talk about it again this afternoon to confirm I’m not showing up that day, but mostly to tell him I’m pregnant. So I could see he had a 2 hour gap at one stage, I went in and asked if he’d have a few minutes to chat and he said he would come grab me when he did. Then he started avoiding me. At one stage he came over to the area that I work in, went into a completely different and empty room, looked at something, then came and asked me if that thing was working properly, and to make sure it works properly, then left. I didn’t see him before I left for the day.

Maybe I do want to quit now.

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