Time off work for Appointments

Can your place of work make you work a day that you have a baby doctor appointment? An appointment that absolutely can’t be rescheduled. *****kinda long story!!

Alright so I had switched doctors after a bad experience with my first doctor around 8-9 weeks pregnant. This doctor is in a different town than the first so my suppose to be second appointment at 12 weeks was technically my first for this doctor. So he had me schedule another appointment for two weeks later. That was this past Monday. I haven’t had any issues with getting them off of work because I made sure I had the day off for my appointments. My second appointment I originally had off but my boss made me work because she was going on vacation. It was fine because I opened so I got off at 9am (work at a gas station) and my appointment was at 1:30. At that appointment, my doctor told me I needed to go to the hospital to get my blood drawn to test for Down syndrome and whatnot. So the next day I did that.

Well I have two brothers with a rare skin disorder that’s genetic. My twin brother and his wife were tested for it before they had a baby to see what the chances were for them to have a baby with this skin disorder. She didn’t have the gene so they were safe. My fiancé and I are suppose to get tested for it this Friday in the city which is 1.5 hours away. I was scheduled to work but my doctor said the doctor who does those tests will only be available Friday and then won’t be available for three months because he’s going on a mission somewhere in another country.

My boss went on vacation last Monday and got back yesterday. She texted me late afternoon yesterday asking if I could work for her today so she could get caught up and everything she couldn’t do at the store while she was gone. I said yes because there wasn’t a reason why I couldn’t. Well I had also texted her and asked if she would be willing to switch me shifts Friday so that I would open and she would work my shift that started at 9 so i could go to this appointment. She said she didn’t know because she had a lot of stuff to get done at the store and she would ask this other guy if he could do it. (She was literally the only person who could. This other guy had drill this weekend so i already knew he couldn’t).

So today after I got off work I let her know my appointment for next month was at home so I would run home to get the date to let her know so she didn’t schedule me. Well after I told her the date and told her I could open but couldn’t work any of shift that day, she told me she didn’t know if she could schedule me for opening that day so she would see. She told me to ask my doctor if we could change the date of this testing. I said ok. I honestly didn’t even ask. I already knew this was the only day because it was so hard to get the appointment to begin with and since I knew he was leaving too. So she calls me this late afternoon and tells me that she’s going to make me work Thursday at 9 instead of opening because she needed to change the schedule because she just has all this stuff to do and goes on to tell me that I have to work my shift Friday because she can’t because again, she has all this stuff to do. Well I 100% can’t change shifts Thursday because I have some personal stuff going on Thursday after lunch. So I let her know that and she said ok. But I still have to work my shift Friday.