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If a woman is going to take maternity leave from their job, it only makes sense that they’d want someone responsible and trustworthy to take their place while they’re gone, right?

You better believe it!

That’s common sense, folks!

But the woman who you’re about to hear from has some serious reservations about who her boss has in mind to take her place when she takes her time off.

Take a look at what she had to say about this…

Upset over my boss’s solution to my maternity leave.

“I work in the dental field. I have been working at my current dental office for 9 years now.

A bit of background story:

So originally the dental office was brought by a husband and wife duo…this ended badly roughly 1-2 years in with them both cheating on each other.

This sounds like a lot of fun!

The relationship was pure chaos and often ended with them fighting during the working day, fighting in front of staff and patients. They ended up divorcing with the husband taking the practice as the wife didn’t want it.

The wife caused a lot of problems with the staff at the dental office, sending people home without pay and causing problems…it’s a very small dental office and the original staff still remains today….

The ex wife left to work elsewhere… At first she seems like a great worker, but this quickly runs out after 2-4 months into a job as she can’t maintain the fake persona she tries to maintain. she is very unreliable, often get through multiple jobs.

She’s a mess…

She can’t hold down a job, to the point 6 years down the line her name is well known in the dental world but not for good reasons and quite often has to get jobs far away where people don’t know her reputation.

I can safely say she hasn’t held down a job for more than a year!

But for some reason the ex husband keeps running back to her, they both have had multiple relationships. but he still hangs out with her family and talks to her (she is very manipulative).

Anyway enough background: I’ve been running my own clinic at that dental office for 9 years. I get on with the ex husband well.

What?!?!

I’m going on maternity leave soon and his idea for my maternity cover is asking his ex wife to cover my list…

I feel this is absolute chaos she hasn’t worked at the dental office for over 6-7 years. The original staff hate her and still work at the dental office…

She’s unreliable and can’t hold down a job.

The dental office owner (the ex husband) is really picky about staff and likes them to be reliable, turn up on time, work hard!

She is none of these things…

This sounds like a terrible idea.

When he originally told me the plan, I was annoyed…his response was, “why can’t you find a place in your heart for her!”

I’ve worked hard at that dental office and would rather a clinician cover my lost while I’m off on maternity than some chaotic, unreliable individual.

All the traits she displays, if another clinician displayed these traits the owner would quickly get rid of them….but for some reason he can’t see it

She has good reasons to be worried.

I’m worried when I want to return from maternity leave she won’t budge, and I’ll end up losing my clinical days which I really need back!

The other staff members don’t know his plan yet and I know his head dental assistant will leave when she finds out and she cannot stand the ex wife…

Am I a jerk for being upset and concerned?

And also wanting my job back when I return from maternity leave?”

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Well, this sure doesn’t sound good…

And you can’t blame her for thinking this is a really bad situation.

Her boss must have a screw loose!

This sounds like a TERRIBLE idea.