I just took over the sales accounts for a woman that went on Maternity Leave. (Don’t know what that is? THEN LOOK IT UP!)
I had her emails forwarded to me and there was one email from a dealer of ours. The dealer that was working with this woman to get product brought back to us.
I replied to the email with the following:
I got this response from him this morning.
(Bold and italics mine)
A week or so? A FUCKING WEEK OR SO???
First off, my name is not Randy! If you had read the sig on my email, you would have noticed that!
Second, I said she’s on MAT-LEAVE! Do you not know what Mat-Leave is??? Giving birth! Spewing Life! Squeezing a watermelon through a lemon hole!
She’s gone for a year!
You talked to her at the beginning of October, for Christs sakes! If she is on Mat-Leave now, then there is not chance that she will be back in a week!
Damn it man! Read the email!!!
Oh, and if this situation has “the potential to be really confusing”, then you’d better pass it on over right now! Obviously a simple email is too much for you!
:shudder:
I couldn’t imagine my wife being in labour for a week.
[sub]Oh, I know what you meant… [/sub]
But if he seriously thinks that a woman gives birth and only takes a week of, then someone need to ‘liquidate’ him.
[sub]In fact, I think I’ll add him to my “List of Things To Take Care of When I Rule the World” list. Maybe one day I’ll post that list along with other laws I will have put in place.[/sub]
I have another situation that involes people not reading email, but it contains to much internal information, but the point of it all is, “Damn it lady! Read the damned thing!”
I would await her customer’s response when you tell him you think it might take more than a couple of weeks:
“But back in pioneer days women would give birth and go back right to pulling a plow right alongside the Oxen. Office work can’t be as hard as pioneer days, so what is her problem?”
My daughter was born on a Thursday afternoon. I taught my Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday night classes the following week. I went back to my full-time job when the kid was not-quite 4 weeks old. No choice - I wasn’t getting paid leave as I’d just been on the job for 6 months and hubby wasn’t working at the time. One does what one must. Six weeks would have been heavenly.
My god, Fairy Chat Mom. 5 days after my kid was born I was still trying to figure out which end of my breast had the nipple on it. I can’t imagine teaching something at that stage.
I do remember bawling hysterically in hormonal dementia when my husband suggested I eat some fudge instead of the chocolate cake I wanted him to go buy. Imagine how I would have been in a classroom if a student asked if they could hand in an assignment a day late.
The teaching was the easy part… the tough part was convincing my husband he wasn’t an evil daddy just because the kid screamed non-stop when left alone with him. And as I said, there was no choice - I had a crappy $7/hr job and I made $15/classroom hour teaching. This was 3 months before I landed my engineering job - life got easier then.
Of course, after the hysterectomy, I took 30 days off. I had sick leave accumulated by then…
Frankly, I’ve never heard maternity leave referred to as “Mat-leave.” When I saw the thread title, I thought Mat meant Material as in HazMat (Hazardous Material).
True enough, but I’m sure it wouldn’t have taken you too long to figure out what it meant just by using simple logic.
Points to consider when trying to figure out what the term "Mat-Leave"is:
This is a work environment
The person in question is a woman
This woman is taking ‘leave’ from work. (The fact that <So and So> said “when she gets back” tells me that he knows that she is away on ‘leave’.
Now, seeing that it was described as “Mat-Leave” and not just plain old ‘leave’ or a “Leave of Absence”, one would then try to determine what “Mat” means using the 3 given points.
Everything should click at this point. Unless of course, as I had posted in the OP, he didn’t read the email and just skimmed.
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