When are you leaving work?

[titania]

HI Everyone,

I have been sooooo tired again lately, it is driving me batty. Not only that, my memory has suddenly got a LOT worse so the two combined have led to an increasing frustrating couple of weeks.

I work part time and also run my own business, so I have been very reliable and good about my part time job, but it is leaving me drained when it comes to my own work. I always intended to keep working at my part time work till early may, but now I am not so sure.

It is all exacerbated by the fact that my part time work is in retail where I am on my feet on a hard ceramic tile floor all day and can only sit down during my breaks, of which I get a 20 min break and a 1 hour break.

What is everyone's planned finish date approx and why have you chosen that date?

:)
Sarah

[bekkyboo]

Hey sarah...
Ive been off since week 5 ... i had planned to work till aprilish - but since my heart wasnt coping... it was best for me and bub to stay at home.

So yeah - im already off, and i dont plan on going back for a long time.

[SweetDreams]

Well I had plans of working until the beginning of May which I thought would be hard but manageable but my boss took me outside my work the other day (the day before my exam no less!!!) and (to cut a long story short) basically said I had been taking advantage of a situation that he agreed to!!! Which I haven't.

It has to do with my studies and my needing time off every month (1 day) to go and have classes - we set up a time in lieu system which I thought was working well. Only he says I owe him a day (but because he's sooooooo magnanimous he's willing to let that go). Bully for him.

Well I am quitting - he has been driving me insane for the last few weeks with his pettiness. Not to mention that for the 2nd time there hasn't been enough money in the bank account to pay wages (1st time he had one of the part timers wait until after the weekend to get paid - agreed to by the part timer of course!) and this time instead of d/d we were paid cash because there wasn't enough doh re mi in the bank the day before pay to direct deposit.

I am not very friendly when people attack my integrity which is something I am diligent in maintaining (being honesty and trustworthy). I cannot in all conscience continue working for someone who I know is going to whinge about me when I leave anyway (he has bad mouthed every employee who has left to date ranging from calling them idiots to accusing them of stealing). I can quite easily get a job elsewhere and I was staying to convenience him not myself as we can get by on DH's wage.

Can't wait to see his face when I hand in my notice. How dya like them apples?????? :mad: I'm only giving him the required 1 week.

Sorry to hijack - this is a trigger topic right now although I am very happy with the decision as it means I have more time to devote to more important things.

[kiwibird27]

Well done sweet dreams - why do some boses have it in for pregnant women???? I know at australia post they give 15 weeks paid maternity leave and welcome u back when the babies all settled!!!!!

I'm a nanny and am lucky cause my boss is great - am working up until April 28th - with the option to drop days if needed!!!! Starting the 2 yr old toddler in an occasional care place before i go - it's going to b hard to let go - What do u do if your not working???? I think that terrify's me the most cause we're moving to penrith from Lower North Shore (Sydney) to a whole new area where I won't know anybody!!!!

Am due 6/6/06

Guess I'll become addicted to the bub hub - hang on I already am!!!!

[littlepickle]

Sweetdreams, I dont blame you, I would be leaving too !!!
Titania, I have planned to finish work on the 30th June. My EDD is 01 August. It seems like such a long way off though, and some days I am really struggling to concentrate and stay awake. I just want to go home to bed! I am looking forward to having some more energy in the next few weeks (I heard that you get an energy burst in the 2nd Trimester) Still waiting though.
I have spoken to dh and we both agree that due to the stress and flying involved in my work that if it gets too much I will leave earlier, But I really hope to stay on until June if I can

[titania]

SweetDreams - not surprised you are going - what an idiot!

BekkyBoo - are you enjoying your time at home? or finding it a bit blah?

LittlePickle - you do get more energy in 2nd trimester (or at least I did) but body iis still doing a lot more than it's used to, so I don't know that I would call it a burst at all!

Kiwibird - that must be hard to be letting go of your charge, I always think nannies must have it tough as they form strong bonds with children that they have to walk away from sooner or later, but someone's got to do it - good for you :D

my feet are still sore from working yesterday, roll on maternity leave!!!

[bekkyboo]

Titania - Im finding it REALLY blah :p... Im just glad that its starting the wind down soon. As chances of me having a c-section at 34-36 weeks is getting higher - that means i only have 11-13 weeks left :eek: So not much left.. Im over the hump now.. well and truely...

today i killed sometime by sorting out some more of bubs stuff, but if i think of something really time consuming - i leave it for a weekday - so that time flys by when DB is at work.

[TillieAndBug]

Hi all
Sounds like you have a real 'merchant banker' of a boss - sweet dreams - but having said that mine did say to me the other day couldn't you have these appointments in the evenings or the weekend...I am like unfortunately I don't have a choice as I am public patient and the only a-n clinics i could get are in week...he was like oh...(his wife had both private and never worked.)
We have said Easter as the cut off by that time it will only be 7 weeks or so until d day and I think I will be knackered - although my job is just sitting in front of computer and sorting out problems I do get reeeeeely tired...prob cos hubby away all the time and I have to do everything for myself. ;)
Don't know how we gonna go for money as we struggle now...and we just taken outa mortgage...I don't have access to Centrelink as not a permanent resident until some time in the next year...the only help we will get is maternity payment (which I heard can take months!) and after bub is born my hubby can apply for family assistance...we also get my husbands csa payments reasssesed as I will be dependent on him for 2 months prior and 3 months after birth at least...so that'll help...but I am sure if you are an Aussie that Centrelink will help out...think of all the people that are on it for years and no real good reason...
I worry about going ga ga being at home alone I always had a job or been at Uni...but I am sure once the baby comes I will have my hands very full!! Still think may have to do something as I hate daytime TV and eat when I bored! SO might look at a correspondence course or somethink...

[littlepickle]

I wish that my company paid "maternnity pay" :( Unfortunately they dont. My DH is from the UK, I met him while I was working over in the UK and bought him back with me:D I was looking through my terms of employment for the job I had in the UK, and it said that as I had been there for over a year, I would have got 6months full pay or 12 months on half pay for maternity!!! How depressing that I wont get that now:( I hate to say anything bad about Australia being as I am an aussie BUT we are seriously lagging behind europe in the maternity leave/payments/childcare area! The best most of us can hope for is that our jobs will be left open for 12 months! Yes we get a baby bonus from the government, but I dont think it is very fair that mothers get penalised for staying home for a while after bubs is born! It sucks!!
Sorry, I guess I am really going off the thread here a bit, but it is horrible how people have to struggle, especially as they have in many cases put in years of hard work before having bubs. On one hand the government is giving baby bonuses - which are supposed to encourage us to "populate" australie, but then you are pretty much left high and dry!!

oopps sorry about the rant there girls:o

[TillieAndBug]

I so agree!!! so I don't think you ranting :)
feel we get a raw deal here as govtin UK ives you statutory maternity pay plus like you had I been at home in my old job I would have same deal as you would have...when we came over here in July I had all hopes and dreams of landing a similar marketing role as in UK only to be told as all my qualifications UK and experience UK and I geting on (29!!!) would be difficult to place me! (that was Hudson TMP)so I ended up getting a inbetweeny job as customer service - on casual basis with a labour hire company as I just got rejection after rejection from perm jobs I applied for ...then 3 months later was up the duff and so kept job...but yeh I get no pay if off for doctors/appoints/sick or maternity (I don't even take a lunch break but they deduct 30 mins every day for 1)...so we screwed at mo cos i had 1/12 days off last week cos of car crash and monday off cos follow up and ante natal clinic...it sucks. If you temp in UK you get holiday pay and sick after I think 6-12 months...Australia seriously behind...
Yeh the bonus cool but in UK you get weekly amounts for children up to 16 and its not means tested like family assistance and all your dental care free during pregnancy and up to I think 6 months after...plus no paying for prescriptions for children, pregnant mummies etc...It ok out here if your husband doesn't earn much or you on dole but if you just normal middle of road people you get hit really hard I think...
sorry hormonal today! and home sick - I love being here ;) but little things do niggle me...like no shops open on Sunday's in Perth to relieve my hormonal swings with a bit of retail therapy!

[Carmel Jane]

I'm going to finish 1st week of May I think, but will see how I feel, my employer is being great to me (a woman boss!!). I'm currently work FIFO, 10hr days, 9 days straight with 5 at home, and that is starting to takes its toll on me at this 'early' stage. But will be going to Perth office soon and go back to 5 days a week, which I think will be much easier.

If I leave early May that gives me about 5 weeks at home (if she comes on EDD, ha!), time to set up AJ's room and get as much rest as I can - although my books say you hardly sleep in the last weeks, I hardly sleep now :(

DF works fifo so he won't be home much until the birth, which is kinda good, I can live in slobsville for 10 days and clean up the day before he comes home ;)

I'm planning (at this stage) to be off work for 12 months after she's born and then see, I'm lucky I will be able to pick up where I left with the Mining boom at the moment, but from what I've read on bubhub about Mums parting with their little ones, I'm not sure I'll be able to let go!!

[SweetDreams]

Well, we're only meant to be where we're currently residing until early next year anyway so I'm going to work as I feel like it/when I can. When I have left my job I will have to post some of the doozies boss has come out with. He is making everyone insane.

I want to set up home based business (in new area) at any rate which will make it possible to work with a baby so I'm not feeling too stressed. Although the idea of not working is very alien to me and I sort of feel a bit of "what now" about it even though I have plenty of other things to keep me occupied!

I agree about the maternity leave though. I'm not entitled to it and wouldn't want it because of the above circumstances (leaving area within the next year) but it would be nice to get a little bit of pay at least. Although I think some larger companies do have this offer on the table with their salary packages.

Bekkyboo - I know what you mean about leaving things until partner's at work! My DH shift works so I usually leave the time consuming things for when he's working nights so I can keep occupied!!

[KiLLaKaZ]

littlepickle - i'm STILL waiting on that 2nd trimester burst of energy, but i seriously doubt it's going to come to me! :(


according to the rumours at work, i'm only planning on staying for another month!! :o i wish i had have told MYSELF this before i told everyone else! hehe

but seriously, ignoring stupid rumours (they go around my workplace soooooo fast!) i plan to stay until i can no longer handle doing nightfill. besides filling, i also change the special tickets on a sunday night, so i might keep that shift for a while if i can - it's nice & easy work (& i love being able to see what's coming up on special!)

at the moment my belly isn't poking out too far, so it's not getting in the way. i actually asked my boss for EXTRA hours the other day, & he agreed (i already do 30 hours/ week). i figured that i'm only JUST surviving on what i have now, but if i have to stop working, then i won't have any money to survive! i don't think centrelink pays out because you are PREGNANT, i think they only pay out AFTER you've given birth... but i want to call them today & find out if they offer anything at all...