Working mom help! What did I do wrong??
Hi ladies, I’m beyond depressed tonight. 😭😭😭😭 It doesn’t help that I’m pregnant and can’t stop crying. 😭😭😭😭. What did I do wrong?????
I just got my dream job, one that will financially take care of me and my family. My husband is military and we can’t live on one salary, so working full time, I must do.
Anyway, I got the job two weeks ago. I started on Monday. It’s remote and the hours are awesome with M-F. I did explain to HR that I’m the designated parent to take my son (who’s 3 years old) to and from school. She said that should be fine and to let my manager know and mark it in my calendar. Well, today was his first day of preschool and I let me manager know I was taking him to school and would be picking him up at 11:30. She didn’t sound totally ok with it at first but said ok, and to just let her know and make it on my calendar. When her and I had our meeting today for training, I asked her if I can just take my lunch break at 11:30 to go get my son from school, feed him and put him down for a nap. She totally was not ok with that and said that we are salary and no other CSM has a designated lunch hour. She then said that she would get with HR and let me know later. I told her I’m in the process of trying to find a nanny since there aren’t many daycares in the area and the two we do have, have child neglect issues by the state. So that’s a heck no! We continued our training and I moved on to my next meetings. Well, at 3pm today I get a Google meet with my manager and HR and they told me since I don’t have child care that they will terminate my employment immediately.
What did I do wrong? I’m embarrassed and emotionally hurt over this. I qualified for the position but because I have a kiddo and can’t find a nanny right away they let me go. I’m devastated and needed this job!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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