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Boss is mad that we won’t babysit her kid for free

I work at a chiropractic clinic with another girl. Our boss had a secret baby (as in she went on “personal leave” for a few months saying “she was having family issues” and then came back to work with a 3 month old baby). She now is wanting to come back to work full time, but expects me and my coworker to watch her baby while we’re working. We’re both receptionists, so this is pretty much impossible. We expressed this to her, and her response was “so decide which of you wants to sit in the back with her for the shift and which of you wants to be at the front”. We then flat out told her that we weren’t comfortable with that because it wasn’t part of our job requirements when we were hired. Her response was to then edit our training manual and write (and I’m quoting)…


I work at a chiropractic clinic with another girl. Our boss had a secret baby (as in she went on “personal leave” for a few months saying “she was having family issues” and then came back to work with a 3 month old baby). She now is wanting to come back to work full time, but expects me and my coworker to watch her baby while we’re working. We’re both receptionists, so this is pretty much impossible. We expressed this to her, and her response was “so decide which of you wants to sit in the back with her for the shift and which of you wants to be at the front”. We then flat out told her that we weren’t comfortable with that because it wasn’t part of our job requirements when we were hired. Her response was to then edit our training manual and write (and I’m quoting) “The staff purpose is to do whatever needs to be done to free the doctor to see as many people as possible and educate the patient so that they may tell others” (I wish I was kidding). She then screenshot a picture of it and sent it in our group chat saying “this is from our training manual”. My coworker and I both agree that the only reason she’s doing this much is because she has no attachment to the child (the minute she walks in the door she passes the baby off to someone and then pretty much ignores her for the rest of the shift). Today, she got very upset with us because we weren’t absolutely thrilled to play Nannies. And she wonders why everyone takes turns calling out.

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