Hi ladies, I’m upset and stressed. I am the executive director of a small team in a small company which I joined in May. I am pregnant which I declared to them in early November.
my probation review was meant to be two weeks ago, but they postponed it because the boss was too busy. It’s a small architect practice.
My issue is the workload has been piling on since my pregnancy announcement. I don’t think it’s malicious. I think it’s because it’s close to year end. I’ve tried to raise it three times with the studio manager (who is trying to do an HR role.) each time I’m given platitudes that they will try and help and they don’t want me to be feeling like this and it’s important to help… But then they don’t actually do anything.
In addition, my boss told me in a clumsy way that the person who was in the job before me worked her ass off, was always happy to pick it up. He told me this during my pregnancy meeting. And I’m already working two hours of unpaid overtime most days. I’m exhausted and scared. I can’t get a GP appointment until Thursday next week. I’ve just looked at my diary next week and my heart is in my mouth. Even blocks of deep working time have been booked over with meetings. Our project managers keep booking me for work in 1 to 2 hour slots which is just crazy – we usually need four hours to get ahead into anything, and they know this.
They haven’t done a pregnancy assessment risk. Funnily enough I’ve just seen that risk assessment gone in on Tuesday over my only time to do any client work. I actually do not know what to do. Can anyone help advise?