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This article has been floating around the parenting forums. Personally, I think her office should have accommodated her, but I also don't see how she couldn't find a better option than quitting her job, especially since it says in the article her husband was laid off. Couldn't her husband bring her baby to her for the 3 days until they had the room ready? Take vacation those 3 days? Use a manual pump perhaps? I just don't see how quitting was the only and the best option in this situation. Thoughts?
This article has been floating around the parenting forums. Personally, I think her office should have accommodated her, but I also don't see how she couldn't find a better option than quitting her job, especially since it says in the article her husband was laid off. Couldn't her husband bring her baby to her for the 3 days until they had the room ready? Take vacation those 3 days? Use a manual pump perhaps? I just don't see how quitting was the only and the best option in this situation. Thoughts?
In this case I think she's being a sue-happy drama queen, since she had other options. I'm betting there was an empty office she could have used, or a sympathetic co-worker who would have lent their office to the cause, or she could have gone out to her car to do it in private. Heck, I'm betting she could have even taken FMLA or something for it. Since it was only three days, I think she really jumped the gun by quitting and suing.
I think she was stressed, anxious and most importantly resentful over having to come back to work earlier than expected and then being hit with a mountain of work that needed to be done. The office did not accomodate her need immediately, so she can sue on a technicality. I'm willing to bet she is looking for a rapid settlement, which the company will most likely agree to.
She didn't want to go home for lunch because it would take too long so she quit? I agree that the company could have handled things better but quitting one's job on the first day back because things don't go smoothly seems a bit .... rash. Especially if your husband is also unemployed.
Last edited by maciesmom; 10-14-2010 at 03:04 PM..
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Stress and resentment are things that everyone-- kids or not-- feel on the job sometimes. Her husband is unemployed. You do what's best for your family, not quit in a hissy fit, sue, and figure you'll get a big payday. I'm voting drama queen too.
If she didn't want to expose herself in a bathroom with no electricity in the stalls, she could have simply asked a co-worker to stand outside the bathroom door and ask those who came along to wait. I'm sure they would have accommodated her.
I have no kids so I have no clue: how long would it take her to do this expression?
I see her options as going back and forth from home to pump or taking 3 more days off until they straightened things out. I don't see pumping in the bathroom as an option nor do we know if she worked in a place with private offices, I'm guessing cubicles so she may not have had the option to just use someone's office. I understand why she was upset. They should have just let her use the room to pump. There is absolutely no logical reason why they should have been able to deny her the right to use the room set up for pumping mothers.
I see her options as going back and forth from home to pump or taking 3 more days off until they straightened things out. I don't see pumping in the bathroom as an option nor do we know if she worked in a place with private offices, I'm guessing cubicles so she may not have had the option to just use someone's office. I understand why she was upset. They should have just let her use the room to pump. There is absolutely no logical reason why they should have been able to deny her the right to use the room set up for pumping mothers.
But she QUIT over it! In this economy, with an unemployed husband. Sorry that is what there is "no logical reason" for....Things are sometimes badly communcated and things don't always go as smoothly as they should have...I don't think that is being disputed...but you don't quit on the first day, because of that.
What puzzles me is that she had a month to plan going back to work. She knew she would need to pump. Why did she not find out what the procedure was to get on the list for the room? Why wait until she needed to actually pump?
Even though she did not plan ahead, I think the "nurse" acted like a dodo. How much "paperwork" could possibly be involved in scheduling a room? Why would it need "approval"? And why would it need to take 3 days? The place must be enormous if they have the facilities for nursing moms that the article describes and a nurse on the premises. How many nursing moms do they have pumping at any given time? Any "nurse" worthy of the title would have found a way to solve the problem on the spot. If there was a room available and the nurse just wouldn't let her use it, then the "nurse" is on the hot seat in my opinion.
But she QUIT over it! In this economy, with an unemployed husband. Sorry that is what there is "no logical reason" for....Things are sometimes badly communcated and things don't always go as smoothly as they should have...I don't think that is being disputed...but you don't quit on the first day, because of that.
Why are you quoting me and trying to argue? I know that she quit. I know about the economy. I know that she had other options (two of which I posted about) . I also can understand why she was upset. The company should have just let her use the pumping room. There was no reason for them to deny her access over some silly policy. Should she have quit over it? No, probably not the best decision but that's what happened, Apparently she has a case.
I think she was looking for an excuse to sue. Her husband was out of work. She quietly went along with everything, not raising any flags or protesting, but then suddenly resigned rather than let her employer know she would need to go home to express.
Sue-happy or just a jerk. Either way, it's a shame she's raising children.
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I know that she quit. I know about the economy. I know that she had other options (two of which I posted about) 
. I also can understand why she was upset. The company should have just let her use the pumping room. There was no reason for them to deny her access over some silly policy. Should she have quit over it? No, probably not the best decision but that's what happened, Apparently she has a case.
