Sorry about that sucky attitude. Some people are twits.
I'm a bit over work at the moment too. Also culture issues and people not having a flipping clue. I'm desperate for time off but can't for several months yet.
I got told the other day that I'm not as "go with the flow" since I've been back from mat leav. All because I said I needed to leave on time that day. Sorry, but I don't get paid over time. I have accumulated 19 hours flexi time over the last 2 weeks alone. I've even come in with dd2 on my day OFF to do a presentation the person who made the comment didn't feel comfortable doing! Does my head in. Wish I didn't need to work so I could pic and choose my hours and job.
And tomorrow I get to go and bang my head on yet another brick wall.
Sorry to hear about the awful attitudes, Astrid and MG.
I am ok with work at the moment but that is because I only have 4 days left and only 3 of those in the office :-). I am the only female on the team, and apart from the PM and one other who both have grown up children, no one else was born over here, so culturally they all have wives who are at home with children and no intention of working - so there is no real understanding at all. I too have had the eye rolls when I leave on time, although I then work at home in the evenings which suits them really because it overlaps better with India.
Hugs Astrid, I hate those comments too, sorry that you have to put up with that. Comments like that rile me up. I am part time, I work 4 days (one of them from home) - am I lucky? Yes! Is it easy? No! Juggling little kids, a workload etc is hard, and lets be honest its not like you sit at home on your days off drinking coffee all day!! My workload is no less than my full time counterparts, I work the least amount of hours but have the biggest team so more people to manage and attend to. I just have to be super organised. Lucky I'm slightly anal Honestly I want to smash people in the head when they say that rubbish.... Grrrrr for you!!
WYSIWYG - Hope something comes up for you mate. Fingers Crossed!!
My Boss who is normally awesome, declined some annual leave for me the week of my 40th Birthday upcoming in July, we had some other people on leave so I built my bridge and got over it, reorganised some travel plans and got on with it. Then last week one of my colleagues who manages another team, forwards me an email telling me she needed me to organise a relief for her ( I organise secondments etc for our department) as our boss had approved some leave for her - in the same week he'd declined for me!!!!! Soooo freaking annoyed!! So I forwarded him the request and said "Hey, these are the dates you previously declined for me for my 40th!!". He was a bit mortified, and stuffed up as didn't really check her dates properly and offered for me to take the leave too. I haven't as a. I've made other plans now, b. it will leave our department seriously short with both of us off and c. I don't want to be a **** about it. What annoys me though is that I did the right thing and checked who else was on leave to paint the picture of the impact my leave would have, and he declined it as others were off, she didn't and had it approved. Grrrrrrr. I'm going to be so grouchy on those days when they come about!!
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Honestly I want to smash people in the head when they say that rubbish.... Grrrrr for you!!
Oh, MN, I'm so very sorry 
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