Disclosing pregnancy in interviews

Gretchenindisguise

sonrisa:

emjacobs13:

Except your employer could give two sh!ts less that you are bf'ing, as far as your pregnancy affects them it is time that you will be out of the office.  Its a "vacation", therefor your Christmas vacation is actually very similar. Maybe a few days is the wrong term, but if you take a few weeks to go to Cancun its similar.  

Em, have you birthed a child? I don't mean this as a snarky question. Most employers give limited vacation and sick time which must be accrued. After 6 months at most jobs you are lucky if you've accrued 2 weeks of vacation and sick time total. Two weeks after going into the hospital for delivery, many women are in no condition to return to work. If you have an extended labor and throw in a c-section (a pretty common occurrence) returning to work in a timely fashion would be almost impossible. On the flip side, I can't imagine most employers signing off on a two week holiday to Cancun after just half a year.  I've had to pull teeth to get two days off at Christmas after four months on a job.

Perhaps you have particularly good vacation policies at your work.

 

A few days or even a week at Christmas isn't the same thing.

And yes, I've had friends disclose upcoming vacations when interviewing, because they didn't want to/couldn't reschedule them and wanted to make sure it wasn't a problem. 

susiederkins

Here logic is mind blowingly inconsistant in that thread. It's not dishonest to withold information that an employer is not legally allowed to ask for or use as part of their hiring decision.

From what I can make out, her real unpopular opinion is that she doesn't think pregnant woman should applying for jobs.

JalapenoMel

I have a friend that is visibly pregnant, and is at an on campus interview.  Her baby is due in early September, so if they hired her, she would have to take off like 2 weeks after she started (its for a professor job).  She is not planning on disclosing (although I am sure they can figure it out).  I?m not sure how I feel about it.