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

[ohdearitshappeningtome]

The maximum time a iPhone will beep for a text is three times, they aren't really that loud beeps! And as a user of an iPhone and on my third and my family use them too never an issue with silent!

Anyway the noise of your games don't wake the baby no???

I have a twelve week old and sometimes forget to put it on sole the most it does if it happens to beneath him is make him jump.....

I conclude my mumsnet folks..... That this is bullshit of the highest order and the op u need to get a grip of reality !

[ohdearitshappeningtome]

Also if your sitting jn a dark room does that mean they text you in the middle of the night as where I liven the uk it's daylight from 545 ish until 930 ish !!!

Or do u have a blackout room which means u spend all day in bed ?

[Icimoi]

If you're collecting the texts to prove the problem to the manager, surely you had enough proof within around a month of starting your maternity leave. I just don't understand why you would let it go on this long.

[lougle]

Strange thread.

[EarthWindFire]

This thread is bonkers!

[Pimpf]

this just gets better.

Op. I have a problem, how do I solve it
Aibu board. Do this
Op. but I don't want to, surely this is harassment
Aibu. Annoying yes, but. Not harassment, do a b or c
Op. but I don't want to, I want to build a case
Aibu board. Ffs get a grip, this is easily solved and not harassment
Op. you're all being mean to me

Whilst I agree that it is very annoying, and I know how in the early days of trying to settle a baby can be difficult but from your own admission, the texts have only started in the last month, so it's not been going on for your whole mat leave. There have been simple steps you could take in the mean time. Phone on silent and off vibrate when you urgently need your phone near the baby. You could continue to contact them, get you mum to deliver a letter. But when you start talking about harassment and building a case people will automatically assume you are wanting to take them to court for some kind of compensation for the distress they have caused you.

People who try to make something out of nothing like this make it so much harder for anyone who does have a genuine case.

Now turn your bloody phone off, write a letter and deal with the issue rather than whinge about it and expect it to magically disappear

[HotDogJumpingFrogAlburquerque]

Wow. Seriously, block the number, resign, phone on silent, move on.

[ilovesooty]

Can I put in another vote against the term "little man"?

[adp73]

Just put your phone on silent? Not rocket science. Keep it in a room your baby isn't sleeping in? or do you sit on top of him all the time?

Write and ask to be taken off the list for now. By the way you can only request reduced hours at work your employer doesn't have to give them to you.

[echt]

I put my hands up as the ultimate MN coward because I clicked on this thread on about post 3 and backed off from saying YABU just for saying "little man", though the lack of the possessive pronoun pissed me off more.

[Joysmum]

I do not know why they send them. They do though

I suggest this is because you haven't resigned in writing!

Imagine you are the HR manager and a member of staff who resigned verbally disputed doing so. You'd have no proof and would lose a tribunal. Surely that isn't difficult to appreciate?

All you need to do is use the template letter so thoughtfully written by MrsHoff...and do it today.

[glasgowstevenagain]

Hey Hun xxxx

Hope the texts have not annoyed your little man and he is sleeping like a good bubz.

this will all get sorted....

Set a ticker..

Mwah...

Love you lots like jelly tots!

[EarthWindFire]

[MyFairyKing]

Lilannii On a serious note, this is a good learning experience. You should always formally resign in writing. Verbally is not good enough, even if it is to the manager. Send the letter first class today. This could be sorted by the end of the week,

[aurynne]

If you still want to receive calls, you just need to choose "silent" as an option for text alerts. Voila! I can do it with the cheapest dumb phone I bought for $19.90, somehow I am quite sure an iPhone will offer a similar option...

[glasgowstevenagain]

Her button is broken dontcha know!

and she wont block the number, its the principle

[ohdearitshappeningtome]

My 12 week old is currently sleeping through next doors renovations as all windows open as lovely weather and other side next door cleaning her car so music is blaring from her car! Yet your baby can't sleep through a simple text tone!

Op are u for real?

[glasgowstevenagain]

All joking aside she is for real, I suspect she is letting things get on top of her,

she needs to not sweat the small stuff and focus on what is good about her life :)

[HenI5]

If someone thinks they've resigned but they keep getting payslips and texts generated automatically then it should be blatantly obvious that the 'resignation' hadn't been effective.
Therefore anyone with the slightest bit of common sense would write to the company confirming said resignation and asking that further communications cease.

All the stuff about broken phone buttons, waking a baby and shouldn't have to get in touch with the former employer is unnecessary OP, that is all you had to do as soon as you realized you were still on the system.

This thread reminds me of Banzai
clip is safe viewing by the way despite the disclaimer.

[Fluffy40]

Never have a smartphone that is cleverer than you are

[HappyYoni]

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