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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Until recently, I was pumping in a coworkers office and reserving empty conference rooms. I've even brought a hand pump for situations like this to pump discretely in my cubicle under a nursing cover with a scarf blocking my door. [/quote] I don't understand why you don't continue to do this? Personally, I hate when colleagues call into meetings on cell phones. The reception is often bad, it's hard to understand when the co-worker speaks and they often have a hard time hearing what's said at the meeting. Land-lines are much better, especially work phones which are on the same phone system as the speakerphone. The connection is clearer, the volume better and there isn't as much static and signal breakup as a cell. So, why have you discontinued reserving empty conference rooms or coordinating with a coworker to use their office. If you have a team member who has a private office who is often in the same meetings, can you ask them if when a meeting is on and the lactation room is busy, if you can use their office? Then you can connect to the meeting from their office phone. [quote] I think that she is also upset as I had a discussion with our supervisor about not traveling until my son was older and now am not going on a few site visits. Also, last week we had a conference and the hotel could not provide me a place to store my milk all day so I went back and forth at lunch and our half hour break to pump and drop off my milk in the refrigerator. [/quote] You should invest about $70 into getting one of those plug-in travel/picnic coolers. Most have cigarette lighter sockets, but you can get a 12V to 110V converter that will allow you to plug that into a wall socket. Then you just find a place at the conference out of the way (maybe a back corner of the conference room) to plug it in and leave your pumped milk. I understand you being upset that your supervisor is not more supportive of you, but it sounds as if you could be making more of an effort to compromise and be more accommodating to the work schedule.[/quote]
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