Resentful employee turns on pregnant coworker for being hired during her first trimester, he creates a hostile work environment: “She’s barely contributing to work”

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    AITA For resenting the fact that a pregnant woman got a job with us?

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    So just writing that headline makes me think I am but please hear me out. I will try an put this as clearly as possible. So a woman was recently employed at my workplace. Seems she was already 3 months pregnant. As it stands at the moment it looks like we will just about complete her training and get a couple of months work
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    from her before she goes on maternity leave. It is quite possible, depending on how long she stays off, she will need refresher training when she gets back. Her current circumstances are she already has two children under 2 and a husband in the military. (I know shame on me she must be some kind of saint). Her current
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    circumstances mean she rarely manages to work a whole week. So here we are with a staff member who is barely contributing to the work. She will be going on leave and then either not come back or come back to be a drain once more. Meanwhile she is getting paid and we don't have a vacancy
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    so can't employ someone else who could contribute. I don't have any reason to think that she is deliberately gaming the system or that she won't be able to do the job. I just can't help wishing someone else had got it. EDIt: Want to make it clear I do not blame the woman. Also, "frustrated " might be a more accurate description of how I feel than "resentful".
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    99dalmatianpups You're allowed to be upset that you will end up with more work due to her being hired. You're right that it's not fair. You can't let that affect the way your treat her though, and you're directing your anger at the wrong party. The
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    fact that your boss hired someone who is pregnant isn't the real problem, the real problem is that the owner of your company isn't hiring enough people for the amount of work that y'all do.
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    If it's a struggle for two people to do the work and only manageable with three people, then there should be four people hired to do that role to ensure y'all never run into this type of predicament.
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    IHaveAChairWawaw... Sounds like your boss' problem, not yours. Stop being a bootlicker and let him cop the loss.
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    Legal Nebula4797 You're blaming a pregnant woman for the fact your company is run terribly. Are you kidding? YTA.
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    DaraScot YTA. Pregnant women still have the right to work. Your comments are why so many women are apprehensive about telling their employers they are pregnant.
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    Mad_Props_ This entire thought process is the reason employers are no longer allowed to ask women about pregnancy/marriage/reproduc tion and so many other things during the hiring process. You are TA, luckily your opinion here just doesn't matter.
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    [deleted] YTA Employers can't ask about pregnancy and shouldn't (edit: in many countries). Pregnant people have every right to seek employment and get every benefit offered.
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    If a company hasn't staffed enough to cover all those benefits, that is a company/manager failure that is not the woman's fault.
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    Your company absolutely should hire additional staff or temp to make sure everything is covered but that is on them to do.
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    All of these exact same issues could have occurred with someone who didn't find out they were pregnant until after hired. It is on the company to add staff
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    CommonEarly4706 so would you look at it the same way if it was a dad who had a pregnant wife who was in the military and two kids at home. Are you in a management position or just a worker who hates training?
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    Isn't maternity leave. 6 weeks there? She wants to work, got the job it happens
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    CorrosiveAlkonost YTA. The up here ain't on your colleague for being pregnant. It's on your company for not hiring more people so as to not overload their workers while someone's out of commission on natural business.
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    daphreak1 YTA. Its perfectly fine to be annoyed that a co-worker is not pulling their weight, but man does your post reek of misogyny and anti- pregnancy/mothers. I would say you werent the a hole if
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    every other word wasnt an insult towards working mothers. Also, if you are understaffed, etc. because a co-worker has to go on family leave thats an employer- problem, not a co-worker- problem.

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