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We all thought that she'd get a temp vet, but she's making my coworker cover my schedule (which includes Saturdays) which did not go over well. I guess there is no budget, and the last time they had a temp vet in that vet had some personal issues that prevented her from working for more than a few days. So she just doesn't want to go down that road again.Jesus christ. If she's that worried about it, she could have hired someone temporarily to help while you're on maternity leave...I'm sure there are people who would jump at that opportunity.
I'm basically the guinea pig for my other coworker who just got married and may want to have kids. She's literally seeing how it goes for me. At least my job will be protected with my FMLA but with how difficult it's been on this team, I'm not sure what I'll be coming back to. I've had to fight tooth and nail to get primary on maybe 15% of the animals in this zoo, I'm assuming I'll have to start from scratch when I come back. So then I naturally feel pressured to take the shortest leave possible, but then the other half of me doesn't want to do that for obvious reasons. I just feel like I'm flying in the dark here and I'm finally understanding what I was told about this by a vet I externed under back in the day. I didn't hear it then because I was like...25 or whatever and never thought I was going to have a kid, but now I'm like damn, we really haven't made the progress in this field that people like to say we have.Yes because for whatever reason it's not uncommon for women in higher level positions to decide to be ****ty to other women. You're not the first person I've heard from that specifically had issues with a female boss (even one who has kids...) around being pregnant. It's extra awful.


But afaik the vet who was out on maternity leave was not made to feel guilty in any way. We redistributed her existing cases amongst ourselves and dealt with things being a bit hectic for a while. Everyone survived.