I’m pregnant and I’m early along and I’ve miscarried before and I’m trying to be more careful.
I work at a dog groomers and have been able to not lift the dog and have them get up on their own. My issue is that my coworker doesn’t help with any of the cleaning and putting the heavy stuff away. It annoyed me before that he would only walk the dogs and sit in a chair as the dogs played and did that for a hr while I cleaned but now that I’m pregnant I’m getting physically ill from lugging all the stuff around and the smell of the chemicals we us to clean. Like even yesterday I keep having to leave to get sick and it took me 2 hours to finish all the cleaning and he sat with the dogs the whole time and we’re supposed to just walk each dog for a potty break and no dog should take longer then 5 minutes max and each and by the time we are supposed to start walking most of the dogs are gone or leaving. There use to be 3 of us and I we all had task we did and we split the work evenly but I’d still help both of them but since the other person quit he’s gotten super lazy.
He’s been lazy before by spending most of his time on his phone and in the bathroom to avoid having to do things but sheesh
How can I get him to help or even switch and every other day he cleans? My pregnancy is already rough but his been making it harder by not helping
I work at a dog groomers and have been able to not lift the dog and have them get up on their own. My issue is that my coworker doesn’t help with any of the cleaning and putting the heavy stuff away. It annoyed me before that he would only walk the dogs and sit in a chair as the dogs played and did that for a hr while I cleaned but now that I’m pregnant I’m getting physically ill from lugging all the stuff around and the smell of the chemicals we us to clean. Like even yesterday I keep having to leave to get sick and it took me 2 hours to finish all the cleaning and he sat with the dogs the whole time and we’re supposed to just walk each dog for a potty break and no dog should take longer then 5 minutes max and each and by the time we are supposed to start walking most of the dogs are gone or leaving. There use to be 3 of us and I we all had task we did and we split the work evenly but I’d still help both of them but since the other person quit he’s gotten super lazy.
He’s been lazy before by spending most of his time on his phone and in the bathroom to avoid having to do things but sheesh
How can I get him to help or even switch and every other day he cleans? My pregnancy is already rough but his been making it harder by not helping
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If I were you I’d either be talking to my boss about accommodations while pregnant or taking it easy on myself until I found a new job. You know your coworker is useless and lazy — this was a fact before you got pregnant so why you’d think he’d be any less of that now, I just don’t know. He’s not interested in helping with your workload when he barely gets through his own and yeah we can say that’s shitty when he sees you struggling but that’s just who he is and getting upset about it is useless. You’ve got to help yourself now and do what you can not to miscarry, which takes priority over cleaning and lugging heavy things.
You could try talking to him. But honestly he’s not obligated to do so because of your choices. Most likely he wouldn’t considering it sounds like he sounds lazy as it is. So I’d say talk to management about an alternative that isn’t as physically demanding.
He’s not obligated to do his part of his work because of my choice? Because he’s supposed to do half the cleaning and we’re supposed to alternate walking the dogs
Work wise yes he’s supposed to but you said basically he’s lazy. So if he’s gotten by w being lazy all the time it’s what works for him so why is he going to feel obligated to do it if management hasn’t put their foot down?