The past three weeks at my new job I have been in training at one location. I liked the people, I liked the place, I settled into a kind of comfort level with it.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I stopped in to visit where I am going to be working as of next week. It was mostly good, the people do seem nice, and as a bonus the manager seems very flexible with scheduling and she even said that scheduling around doctors appointments and such (she used doctors appointments as an example) was not a problem and that she tries hard to make things work for her employees. This will be very helpful, come IVF. Plus she said they’ll certainly offer me more hours if I want them and they are available, allowing me to make a little extra and make up for any time off. This is all very good.<\/p>\n
The bad part: babies. One is pregnant, one just had a baby, one just had a grandbaby. “All boys!” someone said with a sigh. “We need more girls!” Of course it’s all boys… I would expect nothing less. But the worst part didn’t really dawn on me until I left. They mentioned the full-timers have an assigned station. The part-timers, like me, float wherever they are needed that day. Which means I will be working all day long at stations covered in someone’s photos of a newborn baby boy.<\/i> I saw them. A handful of baby photos, taped up around the work station.<\/p>\n
I had known previously that there was going to be talk of babies, and I was preparing myself for that. But photos? All day long, plastered around the computer monitor that I am using? Oh no. No no no.<\/p>\n
They, of course, do not yet know about my situation. I wasn’t planning to bring it up right away, but it appears I will have to mention it sooner rather than later. Maybe they will be able to take care to schedule me at stations without photos. It’s not like I want people to take down their photos. I don’t want to be that girl who walks in and everyone feels uncomfortable and needs to talk in hushed tones and put away photos – that’s not what I want. I just don’t want to be stuck staring at them all day long. That’s all. Just give me my own baby-free computer and I’m totally fine.<\/p>\n
I just hate having to start that conversation. “I just wanted to let you know, my baby died.” Not how I really wanted to start my employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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