Hypocritical Boss Let’s His Wife Extend Her Maternity Leave, But No One Else

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Mayarey
Jan 17, 2022 4:00 PM EST

They say it's never good to mix pleasure and business but sometimes it's unavoidable. Sometimes you meet the love of your life at the office and you have to risk it all to see how it will pan out together.

It's not inherently wrong to work with a loved one, but it is when you give them special treatment over everyone else.

This man refused to give a coworker one extra week of maternity leave even after he extended his wife's. Who do you think is in the wrong here?

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  • 01
    Product - r/AmltheAsshole u/Throwawaypresoptc • 10h 1 9 8 2 & 1 1 1 û 1 1 e 2 A1 1 AITA for allowing my wife to extend her maternity leave at my company but not one of my other employees?
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    Font - I own a company, and my wife has an executive level position at it. 14 months ago, she gave birth to our son. We elected to have a C Section and she went on maternity leave a month before she was scheduled for it.
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    Font - My wife expected that 3 months would be more than enough. However, after giving birth, and having agreed that we would only be having one child together (I already had 3 daughters), my wife was exceptionally adamant about not missing a moment of our son's formative moments because she knew that he'd only be a baby for so long.
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  • 04
    Font - When the time came when she should have gone back to the office, I didn't have the heart to refuse her when she said she needed more time. After giving birth, she joined a mom specific life coaching program and still sees a life coach regularly. She also volunteered for underprivileged kids.
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  • 05
    Font - After a year had flown by people started asking my wife when she was coming back. Unbeknonst to them, my wife had discussed the fact that she had some light abdominal separation and wanted a tummy tuck, after which she was itching to get back to work. Around that time, another employee at the company, " Mary", had gone on maternity leave. Unfortunately because she has not worked for the company for more than a year, she was not entitled to FMLA and was given 6 weeks off for her birth, one
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  • 06
    Font - Around a month ago, we decided to go for it and the surgery went perfectly. My wife was advised to take at least two weeks off from work, but her doctor said to take 4. However, the other day, my wife asked me for around two more weeks before she officially went back to work because more rest after surgery couldn't hurt. I agreed and we announced that she would be resuming her duties February 1st.
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    Font - Mary spent 5 weeks after giving birth at home before returning to the office. Yesterday, after only a few days back at the office, she asked her manager if she could take more time off, begging for at least a week. The manager in question brought this up with me, and I told him to deny Mary her request.
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    Font - The reason is because while my wife's duties could be taken up by others, Mary's team was borderline understaffed and her customer service position required her to be there at work. One person leaving is tough on the rest.
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    Font - When I went to personally tell Mary this, she looked very upset. She angrily said that my wife has been gone for a year and that the nurse she sees blames the stress and body pains caused by coming back so early for her struggles in breastfeeding. I apologized but reiterated that it was a busy season for the customer service team and that perhaps we could discuss her getting more time off down the line.
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    Hair - When I told my sister about this encounter, she said I was being the asshole for giving my wife special treatment. AITA for denying Mary's request after having just allowed my wife an extra two weeks?
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    Font - OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the asshole: The fact I refused to extend maternity leave for my employee beyond her allotted five weeks after giving birth while allowing my wife to take another two weeks after her surgery may make me the asshole because to the employee " Mary" it was clearly favoritism towards my wife and making her life hard for the sake of her team being able to be productive. II
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    Font - rapt2right · 10h Colo-rectal Surgeon [44] 3 Awards YTA and potentially in violation of labor laws. You can't give your wife preferential treatment, especially when a cosmetic procedure is part of the equation. You are wrong in so many ways
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    Font - eternallnewbie • 10h Partassipant [3] 7 Awards YTA, good god, give Mary a freaking extra week off. Your wife gets 52 weeks+ for maternity leave but you won't give Mary 6 weeks?" You are basically the reason we all say rich people suck. "good for me, but not for thee" G Reply 1 14.2k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - Equal-Tie1801 · 10h Asshole Enthusiast [8] If your wife is a paid employee of your company, YTA. If Mary has her wits about her she'll report your business practices as unfair. And she'll win.
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    Font - CakeEatingRabbit · 10h Colo-rectal Surgeon [31] 2 Awards YTA She was pregnant for 9 month... someone could've hired. Someone could've been trained. Yes, you favor you wife by miles and thats kind of to be expected but to denie someone IN PAIN one god damn week off... I always wonder if there are kids who want to grow into the disney villian....
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    Rectangle - mausoleum_kg • 10h 2 Awards YTA, it is not the employee's fault that her team is understaffed, it is yours. You are making different rules for individuals based on their relationship to you. You may not be breaking any rules (since it is your company), but morally you are the asshole. If I'm reading correctly, before either extension request, your wife already took off more than double the amount of time as your other employee. If you have now 4 kids, you should understand both the t
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