I can see the benefit of telling my manager fairly early on about pregnancy. I feel really crap and having her support or at least understanding would be useful. She manages our team but doesn’t have any involvement with salaries.
Her boss however will be deciding on our annual pre-Christmas pay increase. There’s no set performance criteria for the pay rise though I’m due a decent one as my role has expended substantially since my salary was last set. I’d rather the person setting this wage increase didn’t know I was pregnant until this is all sorted (worried about being fobbed off with less than I’m due).
I also work in a job where long hours are fairly normal, there’s a general attitude around just cracking on with unpaid overtime to achieve difficult deadlines. Often late into the night.
My manager however has been trying to change this for us and I think she would respect that I really need my sleep at the minute and so will need more help in achieving hard deadlines as I’m knackered at the best of times atm!
Thoughts? Do you think she’d tell her boss anyway?