Work harassing me while on maternity leave

[Lilannii]

I found out I was pregnant April last year and after asking the home I work in to put me down for shorter shifts was declined I took my maternity leave ASAP. Since then they have made a list of bank staff and text them with available shifts for the week, but it's every single day. My little one is 5 months old now and these bloody texts keep waking him up! I shouldn't have to silence my phone all day every day. I never opted to be on this list, I even told them late December I had quit. I get about 8 texts a day, I have called them twice last week, the first time the person in charge was supposed to call me back and never did and the second time the receptionist was supposed to pass a message on, I have called them this morning and am waiting again for the person in charge of the list to phone me back. Does this constitute harrassment?? What can I do about this? It's driving me nuts. Especially when little man has been ill and only just drifted off to sleep them to be woken by work texting

We disagree. This is AIBU.

She isn't employed though.

They obviously didn't accept the fact that I have quit hence the payslips coming through the post and texts. So in their eyes I am still on maternity leave surely. in which case they should be texted me asking if I can do shifts

Oh OP stop being such a bell end and block the number. Problem solved. Build a case ? Wtf for what ??

Oh and pleeeaaseee stop saying little man. Bleurgh.

Squiggly squid, there is nothing wrong with my mentality. The whole point of this post was to find out how I can take the next step as contacting them myself clearly is not effective. I am a bloody good mother to my son, and not a toxic mother. I have the advice I was after so why bring my parenting skills into question too?

You know... You can write them a letter AND silence your phone or block their number? You can even set that number to have silent non-vibrating messages so they don't wake the baby. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. If your baby is waking up, it's because you WANT your baby to be woken up. If you want a sleep deprived baby, fine. But don't call it good parenting.

You know the text messages wake the baby. You do NOTHING to stop them from waking the baby. You have zero reason to complain about your baby being woken up. Text messages wake my baby too. You know what I do? I silence my phone while she's sleeping so she's not jarred awake. You don't need your phone on loud to stay awake. If you need volume, then you need to accept that text messages happen, and waking the baby is on you not the company. Personal responsibility.

You're only sleep depriving yourself when you sleep deprive the baby. Turn off the phone and sleep while the baby sleeps.

I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT MY NEXT STEP SHOULD BE

Block the number, silence your cell phone.

Problem solved.

Jesus.

If you really need to be spoon fed: Do not disturb mode for iPhone

Why wouldn't they accept it? And to be fair, you should have resigned in writing so there was no ambiguity.

Can't you just go in and see someone face to face. Explain you've quit, can they remove you etc. Admin mistakes do happen. Its really not the end of the world you know.

I really am failing to understand why little man is such a horrible expression?

the head of HR who I handed my stuff to said I do not need to do it in writing. ffs I am just re-typing what I have already written.

They obviously didn't accept the fact that I have quit hence the payslips coming through the post and texts. So in their eyes I am still on maternity leave surely. in which case they should be texted me asking if I can do shifts

Erm there not just asking you though are they. It is a blanket text to all staff you just happen to be still on the damn list.

Jesus why oh why can you not except that it is not a personal vendetta against you. It is an oversight. An error.

Maybe try quitting properly with a written resignation. It may help.

Well obviously you do need to put it in writing if they think you are still employed by them! Do you always make life so difficult for yourself?

Did you ask them to not text you?

What would you hope to achieve by building a case and taking it further?

So am I

the head of HR who I handed my stuff to said I do not need to do it in writing

Always put things in writing. Always. That way there's no "he said, she said" later.

the head of HR who I handed my stuff to said I do not need to do it in writing

Yes and if she told you the moon was made of cheese you would believe her then too.

How old are you?

When you enter in to a job you sign a contract to say you except it and all that comes with it. It is only natural that when you leave that job you sign again to state that you are choosing to opt out of the first contract.

I have texted the list number back but obviously its automated so it didn't recognise message. the first time I called I said I was calling to be taken off the list and the receptionist said she would get a call bac. The second time I called I explained the whole situation to receptionist as yet again she couldn't get through so she said she would pass it on. And this morning when I called I explained it all again, receptionist couldn't get through so emailed her while I was on the phone asking her to take me off the list. The case I wanted to build, was I want to go in to the manager and show them all of the texts despite asking them to stop. That way I can show how annoying it is and then I will have more texts if they carry on afterwards. The company is a joke. They didn't even train half their staff on how to use a hoist with people and let the carers do it without training which I believe is illegal for 4 weeks!

I am 21, not that that should affect anything. I did not sign my bank staff contract when I switched from full time to bank. I will put it in writing, thanks to this post I know what I need to do. im not debating that it should be in writing.

So if you were available, how would you communicate what shifts you wanted to do?

God I love threads like these :)
Am I the only one who wonders what the text alert sound is?
Big Ben?

Yes but your first moan was that the texts are waking your baby. So it was suggested you BLOCK the number.
It was then suggested that you write a letter, resigning in the proper way, expressing your unhappiness at the constant texts and asking to be removed from the list.

You ignored all this wonderful advice and instead stated you do not want to block the number as you want to build a case. The texts you have already received will be enough proof of the constant texts.

You my dear are one of the most unreasonable unreasonable's I have come across.

Phew, made it to the end of the thread. Three guesses what I am going to say.

Block the number, officially resign in writing and ask to be removed from the list in the letter.

Having a small baby is exhausting, don't make your life harder than it needs to be.

text the system back, it recognises yes and what number shift you want.

For Ice

I will write in my resignation, and about the list. I just don't want to block the number in case after I have spoken to the manager it continues.

But you won't know so why does that matter?