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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you're going to be one of those women who take advantage of maternity leave benefits financially and then quit within two weeks of going back?

Groan.

Your REAL question should be whether this is ethical behavior.  The answer is no.[/quote]

I left my job after my maternity leave. No ethical qualms whatsoever. [/quote]

Did you know you were probably leaving all along?  If so, that is 100% unethical IMO.[/quote]

Why is it unethical?  [/quote]

I'll share an anecdote that explains why I feel this way.  In a previous job many years ago my director was pregnant when she hired me.  She went out on leave about three months after I started.  I was trained and left with instructions to keep all of her plans in motion (which, by the way, were pretty crappy, ineffective plans considering the large initiatives we were undertaking).  She took a four month leave and came in during her last week of leave to say she wouldn't be coming back.  So all eyes turned to me, and when I explained to the CEO why I felt her work had been ineffective and why I did not feel we were well positioned to meet our objectives on deadline, it was left to me to clean up her mess with only 2.5 months left in the fiscal year.  Those 2.5 months were some of the most stressful in my life.

I am convinced this woman knew when she hired me that she wasn't going to be coming back - which explains why she hired someone underneath her who was obviously more capable of doing her own job than she was.  In essence, she wasted several critical months that could have been better spent improving programs/processes/etc.  I am a woman and a working mother now myself, and to this day I have 0% respect for what she did.

I crushed those fiscal year goals, BTW - she left me hanging and I wanted to prove just how shitty she had been at her job anyway.  In hindsight I should thank her - I received and took full advantage of an amazing opportunity because of her dishonesty and incompetence.

And bottom line - I think women who do this make it much harder for mothers to be treated fairly in the hiring process and in the workplace.  I've experienced that discrimination firsthand and feel that I have women like my former boss to thank for it.[/quote]

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