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December 2010 Moms
When to tell work
So, I am trying to get a feel for when others are telling work about the big news. Also, maybe what type of environment you work in. Thanks!
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Re: When to tell work
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I work in research and I am the only employee in my new start up lab that just began in february) (we didnt plan this so well... it was sort of an OMG your Kidding...)
I am telling my boss the week before our appointment. I do not see him except for 1/week and figured it would be safer to tell him before our appointment vs after since my mom is just dying to let the cat out of the bag... I know family will post etc on FB and one of the other folks who is on my advisory committee for the lab will see stuff. So I figure to tell the boss and the two on my committee just before...
I can't say I am looking forward to it... but figure the timing might work out well as we are due 2 weeks before christmas and most folks wont want to be doing stuff over christmas... and if I can get a student worker to do some stuff the two weeks after we should be ready to start up when I come back in 6 weeks. Just 2 more weeks... (freaking out)
My annual review and goal-setting for the year is coming up in June. I think I will meet privately with my boss after my review is finalized but before we set my new year's goals. The other position in our two-person department is vacant right now and we're on hiring freeze so I want to give my boss a good bit of notice.
I may wait a little later to tell the rest of my CWs...maybe till July or August, depending on how much I'm showing. I'd like to hold off the annoying comments as long as possible, plus I'd like my boss and I to figure out how we'll handle my leave before people start grilling us about it.
I work in a small office (about 20 people max, all of them men too!). I have a great relationship with my local manager so I ended up telling him right away. He was really good about letting me work from home when I was tired, etc.
I told other people in my office around 7w b/c I couldn't keep it in anymore and we're like family. And now that the u/s is done and everything looks good, I don't care who knows here.
My technical boss is in another state and I won't tell her until after my 1st Trimester.
No, I'm totally lying! well, not entirely lying. I'm saying things like, "no, we're trying to sell the house first (which was technically the plan, this just happened faster than we thought!)" and "this (pointing to belly) is from eating too much." I've also said that I'm not wearing my spanx today!
It pisses me off--if they were calling me out on m/s or something it would be one thing, but since I"ve only gained 1-3 pounds (depending on the day), they're basically calling me fat!
I would do this, but my boss can't keep her mouth shut.
I work at a very small non-profit. (4 people on the payroll, only 2 of us are in the office, other two work on grant projects elsewhere in the state)
My boss (only other person in the office) is pregnant and due on May 15th. I think he last day is going to be May 7th. And she's only going to take like a month off. And then she's going to be slowly easing back into work (only like 10-20 hours a week, down from her normal 60) and mainly working from home. Her husband is a teacher and has the summer off, so that helps them a lot.
I'm not going to tell her until she gets back into the office (probably end of June?). I'm going to miss our big annual conference that we put on every year. I do a lot of the planning and the week of the conference involves working 14 hour days and this year it's 400 miles away. Not going to happen when I'm 37 weeks along!
I have some suggestions on how to cover my work while I"m gone. But I want to take time to come up with a more concrete plan so I can present it to her when she gets back. I don't want her to worry about anything while she's gone since she isn't taking that much time off to begin with.
It's going to be interesting to say the least!
I told my boss at week 5 when she heard me registering for my hospitals parenting program (its an insurance thing, so I wanted to know what I had to do right away). She thought I was going back to school and started to panic that I'd leave.
I told my nearly full term co-worker about a week later, because I was fishing for info on her prenatal yoga class and how the company is handling her maternity leave. If I hadn't spilled the beans I'd have looked like a crazy pg-lady stalker.
I told the other 3 people I work with last week at my Admin proffessionals lunch. It seemed like a good time, plus, with such a small office, it could have caused some hard feelings for some to know and others not.
As for the rest of the company, I don't plan on telling them until after my 1st real OB appt. (not the nurse interview) which is in 2 weeks.
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I manage a legal program within HR for a global biotech. I am 9w and just told my boss because I need to figure out my maternity leave coverage, train someone, and I also asked for extended leave. I wanted to give her time to think about it and come up with a decision.
The other VPs will be told (by her) after I hit 13 weeks (the week I fly back up for an on site visit). Everyone else in the dept will just figure it out.
I won't tell until I start to show. Maybe July sometime. I work alone in a private office for a huge hospital, I don't really have coworkers since I'm the only person who performs my job function for my dept, and I don't give a flying fvck what they do to cover me on my leave. I probably won't be coming back, either, unless they can meet my 99% work remote on a PT schedule wish list. If they're not keen on that, I'll SAH and do contract work, which I already get a ton of on the side.
Can you tell I love my job? lol
I work in IT for a University.
I haven't told anyone yet. I'm not planning on doing so until I can't hide it anymore. They're going to freak cause we're short-staffed, overworked, and one person will be out in August and two people out in October. Every weekly meeting is filled with panic about what we're going to do for those two months and ZOMG the place is going to fall apart.
And there I sit knowing I'm going to be out from December thru February. It's a little uncomfortable, since I do like my co-workers and don't want to make this worse for them than it'll be, but I'm sticking to my guns.
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I have to tell my boss now and I'm not looking forward to it. I work in agricultural research with a lot of manual labor and pesticide exposure.
I had my U/S bumped up to confirm because I just found out this week that my boss wants me to spray herbicide next week. I wanted to be sure when I tell him because I'm pretty sure that he's going to be ticked
We aren't saying anything to anyone until we reach the second tri. Basically because we have reason to make sure that we are in for the long haul.
We were both entirely surprised by getting pregnant, especially after having been told it might not be possible for both of us individually and especially together. I was actually being examined for a viral or bacterial infection before I thought - whoa, could I be pregnant?
And what do ya know.....