*I don't eat cake, so I had to change the title a little to fit me.
Sometimes things can only best be described as kick-ass.
Like some of the shoes I have are kick-ass. Not only because they are cute, but also because they are comfortable and were purchased on clearance.
Some days I have are kick-ass. Like yesterday. Not only was I able to accomplish a lot around the house, but we ended the day with a barbecue over at some friends house. Good times, it was kick-ass.
And some situations are kick-ass, and that is what this whole post will be about.
I was a little nervous about telling my boss I was pregnant. For one, I wasn't sure how he would react because another girl in the office is pregnant too (only four weeks ahead of me). And also, there are no company-written rules about what I would get for maternity leave ... it's all up to the boss. When I told him, he took it ok. He just looked at me. No congratulations, no smile, no reaction at all. He just looked at me.
Ok, better than getting yelled at.
Another thing I've been a bit stressed over is what will happen once the baby is born. Quitting work is not an option. We need the money. My very last choice would be to put the child in day care. Full-time daycare is outrageously expensive and I'm sure once the baby comes I would have a very hard time letting him/her leave me every day for 8-9 hours to be taken care of by strangers. I was hoping to avoid this option totally.
Another option would be to work from home part time. I wouldn't mind putting the child in day-care part time. This would put my mind at ease so much more than having him/her in day-care full time.
The third option was almost not an option at all. I would take my baby with me to work. I knew it probably wasn't feasible at all considering my office situation and the fact that I wouldn't want my baby around my office environment every single day. And remembering how my boss reacted to finding out that I was pregnant didn't exactly push this option to the top of the list.
Here's the kick-ass part:
My boss doesn't want me to leave. He doesn't want me to find a new job. He knows he can't offer a lot in terms of child-care and maternity leave, but here's what he did offered me the other day:
A brand-stinking new office with adjoining room to turn into a nursery.
Yeah, that's right. Do I need to say it again just incase you didn't get it the first time? I get a brand-stinking new office with adjoining room to turn into a nursery.
This office is SO AWESOME. I am far away from everyone in the company (which is a good thing), I have my own bathroom, two closets (one for the baby, one for office supplies), I get to pick out all-new furniture for my office, and move over there before the baby comes. Can I tell you how awesome this is? Complete and total privacy so I can get my work done, and if the baby cries it won't disturb anyone else at all.
One less thing to stress about in my already stress-packed life. This is KICK-ASS!
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That's AWESOME!!!
Lori,
That is great! Amazing...wait, no, its kickass(like you said)!! I can't believe that. Is the other lady whose pregnant gonna get jealous? By the way, you were right, it is second. I thought first and felt dumb.
Absolutely spectacular, congratulations!!
I am so happy for you. Childcare is the hardest thing to figure out. And it will be fun to be able to have the baby there with you!
Oh my GAWD. As someone who considers the absolute most traumatic day of her life to be the one where she had to put her 10-week old baby in daycare (still remember it vividly - still makes me sob my guts out.. especially since I could have worked from home, but wasn't allowed to because I worked for the devil) I just had my jaw drop.
You just got the gift of a lifetime, Lori.. I'm so happy for you. A appreciate how astounding this is. This day beyond kicked ass - it took the heavy weight championship belt. Holy shit. YAY!!!!!
In defense of child care, the women who take care of my son are certainly not strangers to me. I made sure to get to know them before I placed him there. To dismiss them and other child care providers for women like me as 'strangers' is something of a disservice.
That said, your boss is amazing and I think that you have an ideal situation to return to when you go back to work. Congrats!
Mom told me about this. Just when you think the worst of your boss, he does something kickass like this! You really got lucky with that! :)
that is ridiculously kick-ass. this is the way all offices should be run. i heart your boss.
lucky!!!!
evey business needs to offer something for women in the work force . . . i hate that pregnancy has been medicalized to the point that people treat it like a disease and then expect you to return to life as normal after having a baby . . . they make no allowances for you to be a mother and a professional . . . you are expected to turn your little one over to be raised by strangers and then you work 40 hrs a week to pay for it . . .
may i say it again? you are VERY LUCKY.
i can only wish that something super will happen like this for me when the time comes.
lucky. (and congratulations!)
seriously... write editorials about this and send them to every paper and mother magazine.
i am violently (yes, violently) opposed to women being seperated from their babies, so this nearly made me cry. hooray hooray hooray.
but brag about it. make other companies feel like crap for feeling superior for putting a folding metal chair in the bathroom for moms to sit in while pumping.
two things: 1) i hate that i haven't had the internet to stay up on all this stuff. and 2)that is ABSOLUTELY kick-ass. like the coolest of all time. seriously.
and you totally deserve it too.
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