Recently found out I'm pregnant. I work at a preschool so a lot of my job entails being on my feet, chasing down three dozen toddlers/preschoolers, and going outside for a few hours a day. One of my pregnancy side effects now is that I'm always freezing. I'll have the heat on 80 and still be in a sweater and under a blanket shivering. We also have a steep hill that I've fallen down a few times. Just today I pushed back on going outside when it's cold for those reasons that I'm literally freezing shivering and I don't want to fall going outside. My immediate manager pushed back on that, to where I text vented to her about it. She then showed those texts to the director who then brought me into her office to scold me for not being flexible.
Before I got pregnant I literally would do everything asked of me to run the school and keep it functioning. I do the laundry, cleaning the center, go into any other classroom, cover breaks, cover people calling out, and still run my own classroom. Previously my boss acknowledged how much I do for the center, even said I was the “heart” of it. So the fact she told me I need to be more flexible honestly pissed me off because I am setting this one boundary for my health and safety.
I decided during my scolding that if they were being this ridiculous about this one boundary, my whole pregnancy would be a battle and I don't want to deal with that.
So when I leave tonight, I'm taking all my belongings and I won't be returning. I'm also just not telling anyone because I feel they don't even deserve the heads up now.
I'm slightly sad to be leaving the kids behind I've formed attachments with. But I'm also looking forward to finding a job that will be less on my mental load now.