I've worked at a company for several years now and recently wrapped up my unpaid maternity leave. During my time at home, my husband and I decided we would be better off if I became a SAHM and resigned from my job. Problem was, I had to hit my next anniversary or I would lose a lot of money in retirement- so I went back and submitted my notice.
She took it badly and it has been a week from hell. My baby didn't eat all of Tuesday so I had to run home and feed her. My boss was in a conference so I sent her a message letting her know that it was an emergency and outlining what was completed for the day. She left me on read and ignored me most of the next day, until she decided to inform me that she contacted HR and I would not be allowed to do any sort of flex work or use PTO these last two weeks (and my time at home after going to feed baby would be unpaid). Mind you- we did WFH 50% of the time pre-leave, and while this is no longer typical it is up to manager discretion and before submitting my notice she had been all smiles and promises for flexibility.
She said if my baby continued to have a hard time with the transition, I would need to resign effective immediately since they would not work with me.
I'm being assigned tasks to wrap up and organize my work and being mostly ignored- except to heavily criticize everything I do and tack on more work.
I'm honestly floored. I've worked with this woman for years. I came into the office and did all of the in-person work while she worked from home during the pandemic, even while pregnant, without complaining, understanding that she had young kids at home. I drove her laptop to her house for her, met her husband and kids, and listened to her vent about family issues.. and now she's so upset at me for quitting that she tattled on me to HR for feeding my hungry baby and will not even consider letting me leave even 1 hour early to work from home and see her.
It's just so callous and i'm having such a hard time. I'm sleep deprived, I miss my baby, I'm having my ear chewed off for something minor every minute of the day, and every morning I find myself wondering what fresh hell is in store. It almost feels like she hates me. All I feel is resentment and venom.
My coworkers think she's being ridiculous, so that helps. I try to keep reminding myself that there is an end date but it's so hard to deal with this right now.