FUCK.
Seriously. Why must you constantly blame your shortcomings on me? All of our clients think that I am a fucking retard because you throw me under the bus every. Single. Day. I mean, I don’t mind taking one for the team every now and then, but I have been trying for over a year to make sure this business doesn’t fall apart because of your stupid mistakes and this is how you thank me. I will not be returning when my maternity leave is over, you can count on that!
—Starting my own business.
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2009.
Be forewarned that if you don’t return to your job when your maternity leave is over, you can be penalized. It happened to a friend of mine a few years ago. She took her maternity leave from her work and was offered a better job towards the end of it. So in what she thought was her and her babies best interest, she took the job. She ended up having to pay back almost half of her benefits from her maternity leave and now she has to wait an extra six months to get her tax return back every year. I’m not saying I agree with the policy, far from it, but it can happen.
What!? That’s retarded.
Was her place of employment paying some of the maternity leave?
I had a boss that used to use ME as her excuse when she fucked things up. I remember once she even blamed me for losing something she had put in her desk. She told whomever she was speaking to on the phone that her “assistant *insert PK’s name here*” lost it (I wasn’t even her assistant!).
I lasted REALLY long in that position.
FA: Yes, they were paying for a percentage of her maternity leave, which a lot of companies do now. They were paying 40% and the Gov the other 60%, which is why she had to pay back the 40% to her former employer. Now she gets her GST cheque once a year in a lump sum and doesn’t get her taxes back until October. It has also screwed up her credit rating as well.
Wonder if the OP worked for a Federal Minister.
come on guys its leotarded
Stand up for yourself. Your boss might actually think you have a backbone and then give you more responsibilities.
Never Wrong, I’m curious about one thing. A person is going to be eligible for a given amount of money, from the government, for maternity and parental leave. Just as a person would be for regular EI. I have never heard of an employer taking over a chunk of what the government is obligated to pay.
Now an employer top-up program I can understand. That’s reasonably common. And it’s also fairly common that if an employee on leave quits (taking another job fits that bill) then the *top-up* has to be paid back. Stands to reason really. So if I understand the figures correctly, the 40% and 60% are percentages of your friend’s *salary*. However, the government is in fact paying 100% of maternity leave.
You can tell me if I’m wrong. If I am, and the employer was actually paying a portion of what the government was supposed to, then all I can say is that is an unusual arrangement.