Advice needed!!!!!

[best_nightmare]

See, I have a new job that I like a lot, and when they first interviewed me back in early October, I told them that I would be getting married this summer and that I would be needing a month off, a week before for preparations, and 3 weeks after for the honeymoon. We had plans to take a cruise down to Venezuela, get off on a gorgeous island, stay

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[rocky_bizatch]

How much do you like the job, and is it in an area that you wish to continue working in?

Do you want to continue working somewhere where they "forget" something important upon which you based taking the job? SOme places will say anything and lie to you to get you to work there, and just screw you over. It's happened to me before, and it's a good indication of how things will continue to be. Of course, it could have been an honest mistake on their part, but still . . .

You've been planning this for awhile and were so careful to make sure you gave the appropriate notice and that it was okay. You shouldn't be punished for mismanagement.

[best_nightmare]

I really like this job, and I think it was an honest mistake. It's at an orthopedics office with really good doctors, and since moving to Fort Wayne, I've really struggled to make friends. I've made some here, and I don't want to loose them, which I think would happen since they just met me a few months ago. On the other hand, we'll probably not get the chance to do the camping thing again for a long time. I'll probably be pregnant the summer of 09 (if plans go well) and after that, well, you can't really take small children camping in the jungle... On the other other hand, I can't get insurance through Simón's work, even after we get married, so if I don't get this job back, and can't find another job with decent benefits, we won't be able to get pregnant....

I just don't know what to do...

[rocky_bizatch]

Hmm . . . this is a tough one! You'd think in a larger city like Fort Wayne there would be access to temps with medical office experience who could fill in for the month and the other girls' maternity leaves.

I do know how important it is to have and make friends in a new area . . . it is tough!

Do you think things could change and they'll end up letting you take the full month?

Insurance is a bitch, too.

[the2wittybird]

hm. awkward situation. are you really prepared to walk out and quit? perhaps you could look for a new job now, then approach your management with an offer in-hand, remind them that this vacation was requested peroperly, paid for and was known about prior to you starting there and you are fully prepared to start somewhere else if you have to to get the job. if they like you they might be willing to talk at that point, but you will have to walk into the conversation holding the cards *AND* be willing to call their bluff too...

good luck.

and you realize it's not too late to call it all off, right? ;)