I have previously posted on here with various questions regarding my job that I started a year ago. I work for a fabulous organisation but have an awful, awful boss. I am utterly miserable. I am now 4 months pregnant and have told my boss. She was fairly courteous about it, but clearly unimpressed. She insisuted I tell her 3 days later when I would be going on mat leave and how long I would take off. I am a lawyer so I know she can?t ask these things, but I gave her a rough indiciation for a quiet life (on the basis I know I can change my mind if I want to). I am finding my job increasingly stressful but I feel like it is a silly thing to feel as others might look at my job and think I shouldn?t be stressed. I get constant emails from her, I am totally overloaded with work, she is demanding and rude, and I now feel like she is picking on my performance and everything I do ? sending snippy, chasing emails when I was off sick for 2 days with tonsillitis (I am never ill), adding things to group meeting agendas that clearly relate to things she feels I did wrong. She is a very aggressive, fearsome, domineering woman. I feel totally overloaded with work and never have enough time to do things, but she doesn?t care as she thinks we should work all the hours god sends (I took this job for better work life balance, and less pay!). Our team atmosphere is absolutely awful as a result ? we never get any positive feedback or encouragement, she never says thank you. We never do anything as a team. I categorically hate it and I am more stressed out that I was in my old 15-hours-a-day-on-average job. I don?t know what to do. I have no one to talk to, but this is stressing me out so much I feel sick at night and at weekends. I feel silly for feeling like this. I may take my maternity leave at the 7 month mark, despite having told her I would take it a month later, but I am not sure how I can even get through the next 3 months!
Sorry I sound so silly. I have never hated my job before, and find it incredibly stressful. I know for a fact I am a good lawyer and was considered a ?star? in my old role ? I am not afraid of hard work!
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Pregnant, horrible boss, stressed at work but feel like an idiot. Don't know what to do.
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MtnBikeChick · 03/05/2013 14:38
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