Hey ladies,

So my partner and I worked for the same company for about 10 years. He was a manager in another department to me, he left earlier this year. So he knows that everyone is required to be flexible. I was offered a promotion whilst on maternity leave. I was over the moon as it was perfect timing. We're having childcare issues, we both wanted to be able to look after our daughter on our days off and have her go to a childminder for 2/3 days. This isn't realistic and I think she'll be at the childminder for possibly 5 days a week.

He said he was looking for night work initially and found a job working 1pm-11pm four days a week. I was under the impression he would be working just nights when I returned to work, well this isn't the case. He's been putting alot of pressure on me to get my manager to give me official days off, I already told him I am required to be flexible (he knows this). He thinks my company should accommodate me since I have a child. I agree to an extent, they said they would help me whenever they can, but of course they will have draw the line somewhere. I asked my manager if he could give me official days off and he said no.

My contract can be terminated whenever they want and then I'll go back to my old position working anything between 9-20 hours a week and that wouldn't be enough money. Today my manager said he will see if he get me weekends off, my boyfriend has an issue with this because apparently he doesn't really work weekends. I would totally be happy with this, if I work 4 days a week and know I have the weekend off I'm happy. Hes complaining that I'm asking too much by asking his managers for official days off when he only just started the job. I feel like he should be more understanding of the fact he knew how my job operated way before he had this job. He knows I could finish at 10pm and if there's ever a day we both finish late, who picks up our daughter? Also my job is possibly on the line, all he is doing is simply asking a question. If they say no then it won't affect his job.