Well, sort of. This has been a crazy crazy week for me. Alex doesn't have pneumonia, TG, he "only" has a bad bronchitis and is on antibiotics. Monday evening I got a call from my ex husband (who is one of my good friends btw) saying that the hearing for our divorce was the next day. Seems that our lawyer forgot to tell us. Whatever. So I was just flipping out what with Alex being sick and the hearing and having to get off work early to go to that and to take Alex to his ped, so I was just running on adrenilin. In the end my SO (Alex's daddy) took him to the ped's office and I did my divorce (yippie, finally!!!!). So yesterday I came back to work and find out that I will be moved back to the reception in two weeks because they are not renewing my replacement's contract and so I will be doing two entire jobs for what they think is for the price of one! Hello! I just hate working in the reception with that -itch of the other secretary always looking over my shoulder and never answering the phone herself. I just hate her! Then I had a "talk" with my dumb-*** boss who wants me to work more hours! Now how am I going to work more hours and be able to go get Alex from his daycare? He is already there from 7:30am to 5:00pm and I just do not get what advantage there is of me working one hour more a day for the office! I just feel like I'm going crazy here!
Sorry for the vent but I am sooooooo upset about all this s--t!

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Susan

Wow that is one heck of a week. At least Alex doesn't have pneumonia.

When the heck does you boss want you to fit in more hours?? Geez. It's hard to be a working mom really it is.

Yay! for your divorce finally!!!

Yay! For Alex not having pneumonia... not so yay because he is still sick... but he should be better soon!

And that sucks about work... I'd try and sit down with your boss... try to find a compromise... maybe get a part-time help???

Yeah.. I know how those days can feel like.. Just vent away Yay that your son isnt sick no more

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Happily In love with my soldier

Im sorry... if it makes you feel better I've had a **itty week too. All my three boys are sick. I've been having to takes turns giving them meds with a nubulizer ( do any of you know what that is like). Plus my hubby almost broke his finger at work, so he is home with that and he finally got a chance to go to the doc for his hacking cough, he has an infection in his tonsils, swollen from all the coughing (antibiotics) and he was sent a device that sends med to his lungs through quick puffs. He also got meds for his cough (codiene) and the painful finger,(more codiene), so even if he is home, I won't be getting much help! needless to say my house is looking more and more like a hospital, not to mention what we spent on meds. (ouch) Well atleast i don't have to get up to work in the mourning, but hey i'm working my *ss off. Thank You.

Thanks for all the support ladies! I was home Friday because my MIL decided that she was too tired to look after Alex one more day (no comment) so I stayed home, without pay, with him. At least I got to try out my Pilates dvd while he was still sleeping.

Renée, my boss is not the type you can discuss anything with, I used to work until 7PM and he is the kind that would be happy if everyone came in at even 11AM and left at midnight, with long lunches. Oh, he hasn't any kids and his wife is a CEO, so he has no idea of what it means to be a working parent and what it means to have a baby that you leave the better part of 8 hours a day five days a week with daycare. When I came back from maternity leave I had to beg them to give me part time, because otherwise I would have found another job. So they kept the girl that was my maternity replacement, and after some months moved me up to technical secretary, out of the reception, which I was super duper glad about, and I had new things to do. So now they want to move me back because they "say" they can't afford to keep the other girl on and they have already started in on wanting me to work longer hours. So "apparently" I will have to to my former job of secretary/receptionist and my current one of technical secretary, which is just flat out impossible. At the reception, seeing that about 500-600 calls come in for the 30+ people working here and go out from the bosses (I have 4 of them) and all the faxes that come in and to send out, to be protocolled and make an Acrobat copy that has to be associated with the protocoll number, take visitors to the right office or conference room, make coffee for visitors and/or bosses (while in reunion), make photocopies of everything immaginable, keep up with orders, bind reports and photocopies, and, oh yes, breathe once in awhile, I just would not have time to do much of anything else systematically like I have been doing these last 4-5 months.

I'm sorry about whining so much but this story has just got me so down, I am already looking around to find something closer to my home and Alex's daycare, maybe even full time if the hours are decent. I've already been here 7 years come July and am just fed up.

I'll let you all know how things go.

Thanks again for the support.

BTW Coolmama, I do know what it means to use the nubulizer all day long, fortunately I only have one little boy that has to do that. Last Monday I gave it to him 6 times, the day after 4 times, then twice a day until Friday. He's still kinda phlemy but at least he breathes easily. There is nothing worse than getting up at 3AM to give him medicine with that stupid slow machine because the poor baby has trouble breathing. We've made more than one night trip to er for that one. Good luck to you and your family.

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Good luck to you sweetie, keep your head up, things seem like they willnever get better, but they do and before you know it you will be looking back on these days and be like , man i remember when... But things will let up...I promise. take care of you and your boy.