Hi, in hoping someone can give me some advice. I changed jobs just before finding out i was pregnant, told my manager as soon as i could and she seemed great, really supportive etc but im now 13 weeks (had my scan on monday ??) and im having problems with them.
I work part time for them (donicillary care) which includeds alternate weekends and also work from home for myself (pet portrait artist) which they knew at my interview. I think ive sorted them giving me too many hours but the weekends are now my problem, they are putting me on double shifts both days so working 7-2 then back out 5-10. Theyve also recently started putting extra calls on me and making ne work till 2.30 and start earlier which leaves me with less time to drink and eat (end up hardly drinking as the only toilets i could use are theclients and without being horrible i really wouldnt want to, and only really eating 1 meal) ive done this line of work for over 5 years and im used to double shifts on my weekends but with my sickness and getting so tierd so easily i just cant cope. I told my boss it was too much as the last one i did i slept through my break in the day (so didnt eat anything) both days and come the sunday i felt so poorly, luckily they gave me no work on the monday as i slept all day, then i phoned in sick on the tues as again i was still quite ill and slept all day again. Went to the dr on weds for advice and all she said is she couldn't help only i know what i can do. After talking to my boss about that weekend (and having a back to work interview fir my day off and being told not to make it a habbit, pregnant or not they will disapline/fire me for being off sick) they gave me 1/2 day on my next sat on then all day on the sunday. I emailed my boss to check this was a set thing now and she said that yes i would have atleast one evening off on my weekend and they would give me a lighter workload as best as they possibly could. But then i got my rota for this week and im back to double shifts both days with extra calls again, my boss now wont answer me and the ones doing the rotas have just said we gave u less work in the week so its alright for u to do all weekend, i said no thats not what id sorted out with the boss (she had forwarded the email to the ones doing the rota too so they have seen it) but theyve basically said theyre too short staffed to be able to cover it now so they cant do anything about it. I just had a week off, but now im back to work this week and ive been dreading it, my sickness has got worse again and ive been stressing out. I wish i hadnt changed jobs now (if i knew at the time i was pregnant i wouldnt have done it). Any ideas/tips on what i can do to wort this out? This office it awful they just hide their head in the sand and ignore things even if they have promosed it. Im normally such a laid back person but now im stressed and keep bursting into tears over it. I dont know whether to try and see another dr and see if they will back me up or to look for another job, but then i dont know if that could mess up maternity pay