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.