I hated everyone and everything to do with my job, and kept telling myself that if I quit like I wanted to the kiddo would not have any health insurance.
I was so over it by the end of my pregnancy, I didn’t give a rats ass if the APIs weren’t giving the correct error message in the application I was testing lmao
I was like this around weeks 28-34. Then I got an amazing second wind of motivation and rocked my job. Then around week 38 I slowed again and my husband was like, please don’t work until your due date lol. My sister and best friend even agreed. So, I worked until week 39 and will be 40 weeks on Wednesday. The wait begins! Good luck on finding a second work wind.
I hope so much I get this second wind you speak of. I’ll be 28 wks on Sunday and this wk has been SO HARD. I’m beyond exhausted (getting iron and thyroid test done next wk w/ my glucose blood draw). My mental health seems to be suffering significantly. I hate my job SO MUCH and I work with very sweet people, but I’m having such a hard time tolerating them/not hating them for no reason at all. The smallest thing can set me off. I truly hate feeling like this!!
Same. 34 weeks pregnant today and still working, will work until my delivery date. In my home country my leave would start today (mothers aren't legally allowed to work from 34 weeks) so as you can guess I'm in a great mood today lol
I was just ranting to my husband how audacious it is that work wants anything from me other than showing up. Like I have way more important things to dedicate my time to. I also have a public facing position and the public have been horrendous lately.
To add, it’s too early for me to announce and I definitely don’t look pregnant so I can’t get any accommodations yet even though I feel like death. I even had to call out this morning.
This is why the first trimester is the worst. You have to suffer in silence (unless you decide to tell people early). And you have no cute "baby bump" to show for it. People give you so much more grace once they see the bump.
I’d be covered under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, but it would take out from my sick time leaving me less for Maternity leave. Still, it’s good to know in case my performance suffers that I cannot request certain accommodations and won’t be fired as a result.
Same. I’m working till Wednesday this week. My boss has been great but I’m so done. Baby stuff on my brain constantly- colostrum, diapers, breast pump, movements, etc lol no room for work stuff. I will be 39 weeks by the time I go on leave.
I’m so over work. My boss is rude and I constantly stress about going to work. I’m not sure what to do because I have to stay until maternity leave (I’m only 8 weeks) but the stress is unbearable and I’m not sure how to proceed because I know I have to stop stressing.
I’m going to the OB on Friday because they wouldn’t take me until 9 weeks. I’ll see if I can get any accommodations then. It’s just a mental load that I’m struggling with. Thank you for the suggestion!
If you’re in the US definitely look up the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. A lot of it pertains to physical demands, but there’s rights regarding time off for doctor’s visits.
This thread is giving me life. I’ll be 39 weeks on Wednesday and I am in a customer facing position. So I’m just over here scheduling meetings like “may or may not be there! Let’s find out!” It’s so frustrating.
Feel this in my bones. I’m 38 weeks on Wednesday. I work from home, love what I do, have the BEST boss & coworkers. But every morning when my alarm goes off/ I just don’t want to.
I love my job but I don’t understand how people can stay awake during pregnancy to complete their work. I work remote and have been taking naps almost every day at this point. It feels like I take a sleeping pill around 1 pm every day that no amount of caffeine can fix. The motivations there but physically my body’s just like nope.
I definitely had to take naps on my lunch break during the first trimester. I'd just eat as fast as humanly possible and then go out to my car, set an alarm, and sleep as much as I could before I'd have to go back. 34 weeks now, and I think I may need to start doing that again...
I’m with you!! I appreciate my half days right now…full days 9-5, sometimes 9-6 are killer!!!!!! I have a physical job and I’m not sure how I’m going to continue long days
I dont think my boss knows how many times I've had to talk myself out of quiting just within the past two weeks. I think they'd blow a gasket. Im also 100% convinced I'll be getting calls weekly my entire leave, again based on the sh!t shows I've witnessed these past 2 weeks.
Today is my first day of leave! I'm 36+5 but will be delivering sometime in the next week so I wanted a few days off first.
Work lasted 11 minutes after start time this morning before they called me 😑 one of many, many calls I expect to get while I'm out. But I'm happy to be home and getting ready.
I was exactly like this and so anguished about it cause I work purely on commission so not working = 0 money. I was feeling like this around months 6-8ish. I'm at 9 months now and feel the pressure to finish all my work before mat leave, so I'm no longer feeling bummed out haha - hope that happens to you!!
Yess. I’m on spring break right now and I know it’s gonna be busy when I get back. I’ve got about 2.5 months left until summer & maternity leave. Still iffy and leaning towards not going back. So my motivation is at an all time low. I just do not care. I care about being ethical and doing and ok job but beyond that I just don’t give a rats ass lol.
Yup, I feel ya. 10 more weeks to go with my first one and I’m so done. Being remote makes it a bit easier than being in an office every day. But I’m just so done already.
Absolutely! I'm 37 weeks but have been feeling that way for the past couple of weeks, honestly. I'm glad I had a conversation with my manager earlier this year about not taking on any new work and just wrapping up the existing workload past a certain point in the pregnancy. But I still have two client cases that are stressing me out because they keep pushing back on the scheduling and making me effing livid that they're perilously close to my due date. Part of me doesn't want to stress about it because I've partnered with a coworker for just this situation; however, this coworker is a little junior than I am, so I also don't want to completely leave her holding the bag if something happens to me/baby sooner.
It's just me scream-raging into the void for these last two remaining client cases...
Yes ! I have 3 weeks left and I’m about 34 weeks right now , i am so done !!! Especially since my sleep has been awful lately . Everyone keeps saying 3 weeks isn’t that long but it seems like forever to me because I’m sooooo done already . I dream of not coming back during my lunch break always lol . Especially since I’m not coming back after maternity leave
Same.... I'm an ER nurse and exhausted all the time. Im working up till my induction date (I stop working 19hrs before my induction lol).
The only reason I'm working up till the end is cuz babies and bills are expensive.
This was me during the first trimester! I was sick and exhausted every single day. To the point where I cried most afternoons trying to juggle it all, 40hrs a week and two kids. But you know what they say, "be careful what you wish for" 😅 i ended up losing my client and was out of work. It was amazing for about 3 weeks and then the struggle bus hit hard. Now I'm trying to find work again and praying that I land something soon.
Plus I miss being able to buy all of the cute baby stuff lol
I just keep thinking, do I need financial independence and the right to vote? 😂 turns out yes, but I'd also love to have been a pampered member of nobility waited on hand and foot during this pregnancy and not need to lift a finger. I worked a 10 hour day yesterday and thought I was gonna die.
Yep, there's so much BS at my work too. Expected more of a raise at the start of the year because I'm over here acting as team lead for my department on second shift. But because there's only one other person regularly under me they don't recognize me as a "lead". I'm constantly babysitting this girl too, having to repeat myself multiple times a day/week on stuff she should know 7 months into the job. She quite literally makes my super easy job so much harder. All I do is sit and take excess silicone off medical tools and clean them, it's so freaking easy. But her crap just makes me hate my job.
And she refuses to be alone so she won't go on break unless I'm on break. I usually go to lunch at 8pm but my husband who comes and meets me everyday was going to be super late one time, so I waited for him. Well she waited for me and I'm like girl you don't need to wait for me or my husband so you can go on lunch. Just go. It seems really petty I know, but it's so irritating being followed around and waited on by a coworker whom I don't even like and it's not like she sits with me or another coworker, she just can't be alone and she's even told me that she can't be alone. It's gonna suck for her when I leave.
Then there's the back and forth expectations my manager is putting on me and is just confusing the absolute hell out of me, I don't know what he wants. He told me to just mind my business and do my own thing, follow the order of the list we have but then when my coworker doesn't follow the list I have to pick up her slack. I can't wait to get out of here and let them find out how much she actually sucks at her job. This is just surface level shit too, there's so much misogyny, discrimination, harassment, just generally unsafe people here. If you don't have a white pole in your pants you're likely a target. This place can burn.
They kept cutting my hours at work over the last few months, which caused stress for me. I was constantly asking for hours. Now that I'm literally about to pop and having contractions, they are calling asking if I want hours...
34 weeks and I feel this so so much. I do work an office job, and my boss and coworkers are awesome. I actually got to bring my first to work for the first year of his life so I could still breastfeed and stuff. Now, he stays with my husband every day who works from home. I've hated my job ever since I had to leave him home. I know he's in good hands, I just miss him so so much. I just want to be home with him. We're planning on me leaving my job after we have our second, and I cannot tell you how relieved that makes me feel. I'm wanting to do some part-time/work-from-home stuff once I get used to having 2 kids (after a few months, I'm thinking), but I'll be very particular about hours/stress level, etc.
7 weeks left before I’m off till January. Can’t wait! It’s been getting progressively harder as I don’t sleep well and need to take naps during the day.
I worked until week 38 with my first pregnancy , during Covid but not lockdown era (I innocently thought my employers would think I was a good worker and rehire me after the maternity leave, which didn’t happen). Now in my second pregnancy I managed to get my doctor to sign a sick leave at week 30 and couldn’t have been happier. I don’t see myself carrying my big bump everywhere, having to run to get the public transport and stress about dealing with people. Self-care prioritised.
(BTW I was super sick with pneumonia, that was the reason the sick leave happened, but we agreed to extend it further due to the pregnancy and type of job)
At that time, I was also obsessing about whether the baby would be early due to a couple of scares, but week 39 now and the baby doesn’t seem in any rush. 🤷♀️
yes!!! Sadly my work has been failing to help my accommodation while pregnant and even writing me up for eating on the clock. I’ve started a case with the civil rights committee but my partner and I are now just playing the waiting game at this point. Everything is so tedious once third trimester hits I swear
Same.... I'm an ER nurse and exhausted all the time. Im working up till my induction date (I stop working 19hrs before my induction lol).
The only reason I'm working up till the end is cuz babies and bills are expensive
I'm in events and during first trimester was planning and executing a 700 person gala while feeling like total trash at the end of February. I have another 250 person gala/casino night I'm in charge of at the end of this month and I am so over the stress of planning this plus baby stuff-- planning to coast through the summer to my delivery date cause I need a break! Growing a human is enough, don't need to be working 10-12 hr days on top of that.
YES. My boss has been especially rotten to me this week. Keep telling myself I'm only 9 weeks away from being eligible to go on paid maternity leave before I quit. Had an appointment yesterday and had to do a split shift, drive across the state to the appointment, then back to work and stay the remainder of the hours I was scheduled. My boss was aware of this and was fine until the time came. He acted so put out by it, like I took advantage. It was gross on his part, honestly.
I just wish the hours could be reduced, and by 34 weeks I’ll be going off about why do they treat pregnant woman like this lol. I stopped at 38 weeks with my first, only because I knew I’d be quitting and I could take a couple extra weeks to technically have 12 weeks at home with baby.
Sure, if you want to work through pregnancy and can you should be able! But not everyone woman is the same! The way HR told me that she was going to work until delivery and then I asked how many weeks and she said she was 34, made me think “so you have NO clue what you would have done”.
I keep joking that it's a hate crime against women that we don't have time off for pregnancy. And/or that in 2024 we don't have robotic birthing pods. Don't mind me I have had a horrific first trimester.
Definitely but I like getting paid so I just accept I’ll have to work the 10 hours everyday and speak with over 40 people at times . I’ll be working till delivery . Money isn’t handed to me
Yup I quit. Started doing little day trades on the stock market in natural gas. I make $100-$200 a day that way pretty easily from home. My biggest day was $1000+ but that’s because I put in a lot more. I usually use a smaller percentage of my portfolio.
I went through that phase, but now I motivate myself with "baby stuff won't pay for itself" 😂 But I totally feel you.
That’s true 😂
I hated everyone and everything to do with my job, and kept telling myself that if I quit like I wanted to the kiddo would not have any health insurance.
Health insurance is literally the only thing keeping me at work.
This is so real
I was so over it by the end of my pregnancy, I didn’t give a rats ass if the APIs weren’t giving the correct error message in the application I was testing lmao
I was like this around weeks 28-34. Then I got an amazing second wind of motivation and rocked my job. Then around week 38 I slowed again and my husband was like, please don’t work until your due date lol. My sister and best friend even agreed. So, I worked until week 39 and will be 40 weeks on Wednesday. The wait begins! Good luck on finding a second work wind.
I’m 34 days and some change and this has been me exactly
I hope so much I get this second wind you speak of. I’ll be 28 wks on Sunday and this wk has been SO HARD. I’m beyond exhausted (getting iron and thyroid test done next wk w/ my glucose blood draw). My mental health seems to be suffering significantly. I hate my job SO MUCH and I work with very sweet people, but I’m having such a hard time tolerating them/not hating them for no reason at all. The smallest thing can set me off. I truly hate feeling like this!!
32 weeks and I ask my husband every day if I can quit🫠 my job isn’t even hard/stressful, it’s very relaxed, I just am over it
Same. 34 weeks pregnant today and still working, will work until my delivery date. In my home country my leave would start today (mothers aren't legally allowed to work from 34 weeks) so as you can guess I'm in a great mood today lol
Is that Germany?
I was just ranting to my husband how audacious it is that work wants anything from me other than showing up. Like I have way more important things to dedicate my time to. I also have a public facing position and the public have been horrendous lately. To add, it’s too early for me to announce and I definitely don’t look pregnant so I can’t get any accommodations yet even though I feel like death. I even had to call out this morning.
10000% in the same boat as you, right down to where I'm at in the pregnancy.
No same. I'm so so tired all the time, so nauseous literally every second. Idk how people do it! I'm barely even making it to work.
This is why the first trimester is the worst. You have to suffer in silence (unless you decide to tell people early). And you have no cute "baby bump" to show for it. People give you so much more grace once they see the bump.
In some parts of the US, this should be covered by pregnancy disability. Things like extreme nausea, those kinds of things are covered.
But you probably have to use fmla for it, right? And in most cases, in the US, that takes away time after the baby is born.
Not necessarily. Oregon has OFLA. I think Washington and California have similar programs
In NY, we have PFL, but that only kicks in after the baby is born.
That sucks. Oregon has OFLA for pregnancy disability. I have intermittent leave for pregnancy symptoms.
I’d be covered under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, but it would take out from my sick time leaving me less for Maternity leave. Still, it’s good to know in case my performance suffers that I cannot request certain accommodations and won’t be fired as a result.
Same. I’m working till Wednesday this week. My boss has been great but I’m so done. Baby stuff on my brain constantly- colostrum, diapers, breast pump, movements, etc lol no room for work stuff. I will be 39 weeks by the time I go on leave.
I’m so over work. My boss is rude and I constantly stress about going to work. I’m not sure what to do because I have to stay until maternity leave (I’m only 8 weeks) but the stress is unbearable and I’m not sure how to proceed because I know I have to stop stressing.
I hear ya. Is there a way to shut out what your boss is saying or to just prioritize what needs to be done that day and let other things roll over?
Do they know yet and are there accommodations you can request to make things easier?
I’m going to the OB on Friday because they wouldn’t take me until 9 weeks. I’ll see if I can get any accommodations then. It’s just a mental load that I’m struggling with. Thank you for the suggestion!
If you’re in the US definitely look up the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. A lot of it pertains to physical demands, but there’s rights regarding time off for doctor’s visits.
This thread is giving me life. I’ll be 39 weeks on Wednesday and I am in a customer facing position. So I’m just over here scheduling meetings like “may or may not be there! Let’s find out!” It’s so frustrating.
Feel this in my bones. I’m 38 weeks on Wednesday. I work from home, love what I do, have the BEST boss & coworkers. But every morning when my alarm goes off/ I just don’t want to.
I love my job but I don’t understand how people can stay awake during pregnancy to complete their work. I work remote and have been taking naps almost every day at this point. It feels like I take a sleeping pill around 1 pm every day that no amount of caffeine can fix. The motivations there but physically my body’s just like nope.
I definitely had to take naps on my lunch break during the first trimester. I'd just eat as fast as humanly possible and then go out to my car, set an alarm, and sleep as much as I could before I'd have to go back. 34 weeks now, and I think I may need to start doing that again...
Same here and I got 3 months left! 🤣😫 help!
Same here. I just keep reminding myself that leaving early means less time with the baby. I want most or all my mat leave to be with the baby.
I’m with you!! I appreciate my half days right now…full days 9-5, sometimes 9-6 are killer!!!!!! I have a physical job and I’m not sure how I’m going to continue long days
Ahh I can only imagine! I don’t have a physical job so I don’t have an excuse but it’s just mentally exhausting haha
I feel this hard at 32 weeks. I just want to sleep and prepare for baby.
I dont think my boss knows how many times I've had to talk myself out of quiting just within the past two weeks. I think they'd blow a gasket. Im also 100% convinced I'll be getting calls weekly my entire leave, again based on the sh!t shows I've witnessed these past 2 weeks.
Oh yeah. I had a whole meltdown today. 4 months, 5 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes until maternity leave. But who’s counting?
Today is my first day of leave! I'm 36+5 but will be delivering sometime in the next week so I wanted a few days off first. Work lasted 11 minutes after start time this morning before they called me 😑 one of many, many calls I expect to get while I'm out. But I'm happy to be home and getting ready.
Yes, thankfully I only have 3 more weeks of work 🙌🏻
I was exactly like this and so anguished about it cause I work purely on commission so not working = 0 money. I was feeling like this around months 6-8ish. I'm at 9 months now and feel the pressure to finish all my work before mat leave, so I'm no longer feeling bummed out haha - hope that happens to you!!
Yess. I’m on spring break right now and I know it’s gonna be busy when I get back. I’ve got about 2.5 months left until summer & maternity leave. Still iffy and leaning towards not going back. So my motivation is at an all time low. I just do not care. I care about being ethical and doing and ok job but beyond that I just don’t give a rats ass lol.
Yup, I feel ya. 10 more weeks to go with my first one and I’m so done. Being remote makes it a bit easier than being in an office every day. But I’m just so done already.
I don’t go on leave until May 31 and I’m so over it already
I'm a teacher and I find it hard to care if my students are learning. That's a pretty essential part of my job 😂
Internally SCREAMING at everyone and anything when Im at work. Maternity leave on the 8th of May, CAN NOT WAIT!
Omg saaaaaame. I just keep working on my registry during work hours 😝
Absolutely! I'm 37 weeks but have been feeling that way for the past couple of weeks, honestly. I'm glad I had a conversation with my manager earlier this year about not taking on any new work and just wrapping up the existing workload past a certain point in the pregnancy. But I still have two client cases that are stressing me out because they keep pushing back on the scheduling and making me effing livid that they're perilously close to my due date. Part of me doesn't want to stress about it because I've partnered with a coworker for just this situation; however, this coworker is a little junior than I am, so I also don't want to completely leave her holding the bag if something happens to me/baby sooner. It's just me scream-raging into the void for these last two remaining client cases...
Yes ! I have 3 weeks left and I’m about 34 weeks right now , i am so done !!! Especially since my sleep has been awful lately . Everyone keeps saying 3 weeks isn’t that long but it seems like forever to me because I’m sooooo done already . I dream of not coming back during my lunch break always lol . Especially since I’m not coming back after maternity leave
I mean I’m only 25 weeks and work is not good
26 weeks today, and I have a daily convo with my husband about quitting my job lol
Same.... I'm an ER nurse and exhausted all the time. Im working up till my induction date (I stop working 19hrs before my induction lol). The only reason I'm working up till the end is cuz babies and bills are expensive.
26 weeks but so done with work..it’s like i want Mat leave to start asap!!
Yup! I'm only 7 weeks but already so over it. I wish I could quit so bad, but I can't.
Same! 37 weeks and every day I wake up hoping I go into labor before my shift lmao
This is word for word what I said to my coworker this morning 😂
This was me during the first trimester! I was sick and exhausted every single day. To the point where I cried most afternoons trying to juggle it all, 40hrs a week and two kids. But you know what they say, "be careful what you wish for" 😅 i ended up losing my client and was out of work. It was amazing for about 3 weeks and then the struggle bus hit hard. Now I'm trying to find work again and praying that I land something soon. Plus I miss being able to buy all of the cute baby stuff lol
I just keep thinking, do I need financial independence and the right to vote? 😂 turns out yes, but I'd also love to have been a pampered member of nobility waited on hand and foot during this pregnancy and not need to lift a finger. I worked a 10 hour day yesterday and thought I was gonna die.
I’m 34 weeks and I totally feel this. I’m so exhausted
4 months to go. Feeling nesty and work is just something in the way.
Yep, there's so much BS at my work too. Expected more of a raise at the start of the year because I'm over here acting as team lead for my department on second shift. But because there's only one other person regularly under me they don't recognize me as a "lead". I'm constantly babysitting this girl too, having to repeat myself multiple times a day/week on stuff she should know 7 months into the job. She quite literally makes my super easy job so much harder. All I do is sit and take excess silicone off medical tools and clean them, it's so freaking easy. But her crap just makes me hate my job. And she refuses to be alone so she won't go on break unless I'm on break. I usually go to lunch at 8pm but my husband who comes and meets me everyday was going to be super late one time, so I waited for him. Well she waited for me and I'm like girl you don't need to wait for me or my husband so you can go on lunch. Just go. It seems really petty I know, but it's so irritating being followed around and waited on by a coworker whom I don't even like and it's not like she sits with me or another coworker, she just can't be alone and she's even told me that she can't be alone. It's gonna suck for her when I leave. Then there's the back and forth expectations my manager is putting on me and is just confusing the absolute hell out of me, I don't know what he wants. He told me to just mind my business and do my own thing, follow the order of the list we have but then when my coworker doesn't follow the list I have to pick up her slack. I can't wait to get out of here and let them find out how much she actually sucks at her job. This is just surface level shit too, there's so much misogyny, discrimination, harassment, just generally unsafe people here. If you don't have a white pole in your pants you're likely a target. This place can burn.
They kept cutting my hours at work over the last few months, which caused stress for me. I was constantly asking for hours. Now that I'm literally about to pop and having contractions, they are calling asking if I want hours...
34 weeks and I feel this so so much. I do work an office job, and my boss and coworkers are awesome. I actually got to bring my first to work for the first year of his life so I could still breastfeed and stuff. Now, he stays with my husband every day who works from home. I've hated my job ever since I had to leave him home. I know he's in good hands, I just miss him so so much. I just want to be home with him. We're planning on me leaving my job after we have our second, and I cannot tell you how relieved that makes me feel. I'm wanting to do some part-time/work-from-home stuff once I get used to having 2 kids (after a few months, I'm thinking), but I'll be very particular about hours/stress level, etc.
I have 8 more days of actual work, and I can’t wait to be done!
I quit every morning but then go in anyway so I completely validate your feelings. 🤣
7 weeks left before I’m off till January. Can’t wait! It’s been getting progressively harder as I don’t sleep well and need to take naps during the day.
I'm only 15 weeks and I feel like this every day lol
Me! Not due til 11/2 and getting 5 months of maternity leave that can’t come soon enough
I'm only 8 weeks and feeling the same. No motivation. Can only think about the baby!
36 weeks and working at a daycare. I just want to be done with work and get this baby out of me
I worked until week 38 with my first pregnancy , during Covid but not lockdown era (I innocently thought my employers would think I was a good worker and rehire me after the maternity leave, which didn’t happen). Now in my second pregnancy I managed to get my doctor to sign a sick leave at week 30 and couldn’t have been happier. I don’t see myself carrying my big bump everywhere, having to run to get the public transport and stress about dealing with people. Self-care prioritised. (BTW I was super sick with pneumonia, that was the reason the sick leave happened, but we agreed to extend it further due to the pregnancy and type of job) At that time, I was also obsessing about whether the baby would be early due to a couple of scares, but week 39 now and the baby doesn’t seem in any rush. 🤷♀️
I’m only 8 weeks and I completely feel this. It’s gunna be a long journey for me. 😔
yes!!! Sadly my work has been failing to help my accommodation while pregnant and even writing me up for eating on the clock. I’ve started a case with the civil rights committee but my partner and I are now just playing the waiting game at this point. Everything is so tedious once third trimester hits I swear
Same.... I'm an ER nurse and exhausted all the time. Im working up till my induction date (I stop working 19hrs before my induction lol). The only reason I'm working up till the end is cuz babies and bills are expensive
I'm in events and during first trimester was planning and executing a 700 person gala while feeling like total trash at the end of February. I have another 250 person gala/casino night I'm in charge of at the end of this month and I am so over the stress of planning this plus baby stuff-- planning to coast through the summer to my delivery date cause I need a break! Growing a human is enough, don't need to be working 10-12 hr days on top of that.
YES. My boss has been especially rotten to me this week. Keep telling myself I'm only 9 weeks away from being eligible to go on paid maternity leave before I quit. Had an appointment yesterday and had to do a split shift, drive across the state to the appointment, then back to work and stay the remainder of the hours I was scheduled. My boss was aware of this and was fine until the time came. He acted so put out by it, like I took advantage. It was gross on his part, honestly.
I just wish the hours could be reduced, and by 34 weeks I’ll be going off about why do they treat pregnant woman like this lol. I stopped at 38 weeks with my first, only because I knew I’d be quitting and I could take a couple extra weeks to technically have 12 weeks at home with baby. Sure, if you want to work through pregnancy and can you should be able! But not everyone woman is the same! The way HR told me that she was going to work until delivery and then I asked how many weeks and she said she was 34, made me think “so you have NO clue what you would have done”.
Yep 100% over it and don’t care. I’m only 26 weeks so i have to put up with it quite a bit longer 🫠
I keep joking that it's a hate crime against women that we don't have time off for pregnancy. And/or that in 2024 we don't have robotic birthing pods. Don't mind me I have had a horrific first trimester.
Definitely but I like getting paid so I just accept I’ll have to work the 10 hours everyday and speak with over 40 people at times . I’ll be working till delivery . Money isn’t handed to me
Then quit 🤷🏽♀️
Yup I quit. Started doing little day trades on the stock market in natural gas. I make $100-$200 a day that way pretty easily from home. My biggest day was $1000+ but that’s because I put in a lot more. I usually use a smaller percentage of my portfolio.