Making Her Problems Everyone’s Problems

I had a new job as a clothing chain store manager, salaried for forty hours a week. The horrible district manager picked apart everything I did and gave me heck for refusing to work more than fifty hours per week when I was six months pregnant with my first child.

I’m talking with a long-time staffer.

Me: “I don’t know why [District Manager] is so awful to me.”

Coworker: “It’s because she’s having trouble getting pregnant, and she’s jealous.”

I did not go back there when my maternity leave was done.