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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, twice that I know of. One was a woman around 50 who never had children. She knew that I was pumping twice a day but tried to give mgmt a few levels above the impression that I just "disappeared" for Starbucks breaks with friends a couple times a day and it was hard to find me. I was new, so they didnt know my work ethic and at the time, she was well respected. I was one of her direct reports. Two separate people overheard her do this and told me. One stood up for me right away and corrected her. In reality, I was so desperate to prove myself, that I outside of pumping, I did everything at my desk.

Years prior, I had a doctor's appt the Tuesday morning after a holiday. It was scheduled, but our former manager's had been promoted and was starting a new job and our new manager was starting that Tuesday. I walked into the office as one of my coworkers was talking to the new manager about me saying to never look for me on a Tuesday after a holiday because I always fonud some reason to call out "sick". In reality, I NEVER ever did that. I was a contractor with no leave (company sucked) and we only received holiday pay if we worked the Tuesday after. I only accepted the appt that Tuesday morning, because it was work related (was going for a higher clearance). I was young and still in undergrad (worked and attended school FT) and here it was some woman who called herself my auntie and acted so sweet in my face. I was pissed, because I knew that it was a very easy narrative to believe given my age vs hers. I walked up and introduced myself right then and there and explained where I'd been and calmly mentioned that our previous manager could vouch for the fact that I hadn't missed a day of work since starting the previous year. She turned beat red and turned around to her desk. That was scary, because had my timing been slightly different, I'd have never known and they'd already laid off about 60% of our group. Fortunately, I started a better job with awesome benefits a few months later.[/quote]

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