Telling your boss

I am going to find it difficult telling my boss, I work for a small company which has a relatively inflexible view to hours (8am-5.30pm) and my boss's attitude is different, to put it nicely. This is my 3rd year working for the company and I will be the first to be in this situation since I've been there.

Am also going to find it hard to keep a secret as the office always does Friday drinks and I'm always keen for a wine! Guess it'll be the old antibiotics line, don't think they'll accept that for another 7 weeks tho

Has anyone else had a difficult time telling their boss?

No i can't leave early, we finish at 5pm on Friday but drinks come out at 4.30pm. Will just have to tough it out i think! My immediate boss will be ok about it but the director.. Well that'll be interesting

I told my boss early in the pregnancy so that someone at work knew about it. Especially if I had problems with fainting or something like that.

I told my boss at 6 week. Had no choice as it turned out, I was sick as a dog so it was either come clean and work from home, or have them think there was something seriously wrong with me and not let me work anyway!
Was terrified to do it but he was actually really nice about it and I felt much better that he knew afterwards.

I think most bosses appreciate knowing asap, even if theyre not totally stoked that they are loosing a worker (even if just temporarily). It gives them more time to organise things. My job also had a lot of info that wasnt really able to be passed on so I just made myself available to them by phone when needed once I went on maternity leave. They were still calling me 2+ years on asking about certain things

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