Good thing you are keeping a close eye on her comings and goings. :rolleyes:
Are you her supervisor? Are you working extra hours because of her or something? I just don’t see why you give a shit about what this other lady is doing. You come across jealous that she is getting away with more than you did when you were pregnant.
Well, I work for the state, so we have all kinds of protections. And fuck them anyway, if they knew that the week before delivery was going to be their last week, they could tell us. Instead of leaving projects in the air for 4 months, coming back for 4 weeks part-time, and then just walking out the fucking door.
This makes no sense at all. You’re an idiot if you tell your boss you aren’t coming back after the baby is born. Unless you don’t need that paycheck for the 6 weeks or whatever paid maternity leave you have.
Well actually yes at this moment in time I am her supervisor. I do have the authority to give her projects and routinely oversee her work. We share an office so I can’t help but notice when she is gone. And finally yes I do have to do extra work because of this. Happy now?
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I had a list of things it way okay to eat before two in the afternoon, because they were less awful to throw up. Water, cranberry juice, sugared tea. Milk is awful. I don’t recommend Hakka
either- at least not on its trip back up.
Don’t worry about it; she’ll quit the week after returning from her 3-month maternity leave.
Hopefully you guys have a no-call no-show policy. She could be out on her arse already and just not know it.
You’re being dense so let me ask this another way. Do you rate this person? As in do you write her performance appraisal? If not you aren’t her supervisor and from the sounds of it you aren’t.
I didn’t ask if you have extra work because of this. I asked if you are required work extra hours to make up for her lack of availability? If not then who cares. You get paid the same for an 8 hr day no matter what you do right? Yeah extra work sucks but it seems like you have a bunch of free time anyway because you are (it appears) posting hourly updates on her attendance from work.
Ludy, I think you should send the extra work to Cubsfan since s/he doesn’t seem to think being expected to more in the same amount of time is a big deal.
She posted at 11am, 6:45, and 8:20. That’s hardly hourly updates, and really only 1 would have been at work.
Aside from that, I find it hard to believe that you’d argue that having one person who is constantly slacking in their job responsibilities is “no big deal” to the other people in the work place. Even if she doesn’t work more hours, she’s said herself that she has to pick up the extra work. So more work in the same amount of time is not really an improvement on more work in a greater amount of time. She’s still picking up slack. What does her being able to write her up have anything to do with it?
12 months in Canada (where I think Ludy is).
Yep. I peed on him too, and not in a sexy ‘Oooo-let’s play watersports!*’ kind of way but in a ‘Oh my god I’m coughing so hard and there’s a baby sitting on my bladder and oh nice rub my back and OH NO!!!’ kind of way.
Nooooooooobody was sad when I stayed home from work.
watersports are not sexy
People are entitled to use their leave, including FMLA, when they have their babies. They can use this leave and give an end date for when it is over. We can backfill the position and get work done.
We have several staff who have done this, versus the staff who have left us high and dry. So fuck the ones who leave us high and dry. And if you don’t like it…well, I imagine there’s a warning in store for me, then. :rolleyes:
That’s nice for employees of companies that are big enough to be subject to FMLA.
If you are her supervisor, talk to HR about it. Put her on a performance plan, tell her if she does not call in when she is ill that it will be assumed she has quit. See what HR can do about “suspicious medical excuses.” - I’m not HR, but I’d think that suggesting if her pregnancy is difficult, she’ll need to go on short or long term disability leave and then work on arranging someone to cover for her. You are management, you get to fix it.
Yeah, you can’t have it both ways - either your pregnancy is so bad that you can’t work, in which case you go on short-term disability, or you get your ass in to work and you do your full shifts and you do your job.
As a single male with no kids who always has to pick up the slack when coworkers leave to take care of their families…I stand up and applaud this pit!
May I add the “since I’m pregnant I’ll take ‘doctor days’ every week even though I’m not even having morning sickness, the bun is baking just fine and my subordinates can hear me making appointments with possible purchasers for my flat” boss? She’s now (finally) on maternity leave; at one point she got hit with the fact that calls from work’s phone lines are recorded (yes, this is legal so long as certain conditions are fulfilled; in her case, someone had noticed strange patterns about the numbers and 3h lunches).
Oh, and of course if we leave so much as half an hour early we must take a half-day and she does not allow telecommuting under any circumstances (the boss who’s taken over her duties is ok with it if you justify it), but it’s exactly what she’s planning to do for the first year after she comes back. Wishing colic on her innocent baby seems unnecessary cruelty, but I sure won’t cry if Mommy Dear gets the worst case of hemorroids in recorded history.
Eh, a pregnant woman might be able to work half days or something, but she needs to do her job while she’s at work. And if she can’t do her job, then she shouldn’t be at work (and drawing wages/salary).
Maybe that would work; put her on half days (at half pay) and see if that fixes her up.