Ready for a promotion and my boss said no?

My supervisor just went on (a super short) mat leave. I was second in charge (I’m also about 4 months pregnant). She would have been coming back just as I was getting ready to go.

A few months ago she hired a friend from school to work with us. Last week when she left, she left her position to her friend. She told me I might miss too much work with appointments or for not feeling well - even though it wasn’t a problem for her to miss a whole days’ work for a 15 minute appointment or because she was feeling tired. She worked through her pregnancy but apparently I can’t handle sitting in a leather chair for 8 hours a day, answering emails and playing on Pinterest.

I haven’t taken a single day off due to my pregnancy. I worked all through my morning/all day sickness and the one appointment I had on a week day I booked before my shift started. Meanwhile, she was napping in the back room and not changing poopy diapers when covering other staff because it was “making her gag”.

She also said office work was hard and I might have a panic attack...??? I don’t have a panic disorder?

This promotion would have upped my maternity leave pay but instead, with the resulting shuffle of teachers, I lost my classroom of over a year and I am now with an age group I have no experience with - by myself.

Daycare politics suck.

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