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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How Weird is This? (Work/Baby Related)
5 upper level people here (ranging from director to VP level) are meeting to talk about what they are going to do about my work when I am on maternity leave, which won't be for roughly 6 months. I am not invited to this meeting, nor do I officially even know about it.
4 of these people have pretty much no clue about what I do. I include my own boss in that, as you'll recall from my post a few weeks ago, he is pretty much a total tool.
I am seriously confused about what they think they are going to accomplish at this meeting, particularly with no input from me. When I told them I was pregnant, I also told them I would put together a plan for what would happen with my work when I am out.
Re: How Weird is This? (Work/Baby Related)
Whoa whoa whoa! Hold the phone. Did I miss an announcement? Congratulations!!!!!!!
Anyway, that meeting does seem a little bizarre without you there.
Maybe their meeting is focused on a larger issue - a larger-scale reshuffling of work assignments? - and your leave is a small portion of that conversation? (Or maybe I'm just paranoid, because we have a lot of change going on in my department and a lot of meetings that involve work reassignment that don't include the people who do the work.)
It seems weird, but that would seem par for the course for my current organization.
I am the only person who does what I do internally, and we are also in the middle of a big project that will be in the implementation phase when I am out.
I found out about the meeting, though, from the one person who will be there who knows what I do. She was confused I wouldn't be there, and read me the meeting request, which came from my boss and said, "[His boss] wanted me to call this meeting to talk about what we will do about cep's work when she is on maternity leave in July."
Thanks! I'm not an an announcement kind of girl, so I just stuck a ticker in my signature earlier this week.
I think it depends on your organization. Mine is pretty open about stuff, so this type of meeting wouldn't make me paranoid, but it would bug me. FWIW, I spoke with the various people I worked with about my responsibilities and who would cover for me and then I wrote up a plan (for both my maternity leaves).
Congrats!
I failed to notice this as well... huge congrats!!
Planning Bio
FWIW where I work that would not be an unusual meeting for folks to have without me. Whether they knew what I do for a living or not. Maybe they're talking about a plan they knew you wouldn't be thrilled about or major changes that happen to be coinciding with your leave that they don't want you to know about.
In any case, congrats!!!
"What is a week-end?"
The person who told me about the meeting loves me, and also told me if I ever get so unhappy with my boss that I'd want to leave for a new job, to let her know and she would get me moved into her division. Apparently she's tried to poach me before and been shot down. So, she will definitely fill me in afterwards, and stand up for me in that meeting as well. I feel much, much better knowing she will be in there. She's also the one who understands what I do and gets the importance of it.