I was given such grief about needing to express my breast milk from the time I came back from my maternity leave until the time I quit. I was told I could only pump 2 times during my work hours and needed to pump during my lunch. Sometimes my lunch was only 30 minutes, which it takes 30 minutes to pump. I had to buy hands-free pumps in order to make up for the times I wasn't allowed to pump, and pump while I worked. I had 2 scheduled pump times, and I was only allowed to pump for 30 minutes each time. They did not take in consideration how long it takes to wash out the pumps either. I constantly got complaints about how I was taking too long to pump. I felt like I was always targeted because I was getting talked to about other things as well, even though all of my coworkers were doing the same or similar things and not getting talked to. There is another woman who came to the clinic to help with urgent care who also said she was only allowed 2 pump times at 9am and 3pm. My 2 scheduled pump times were at 9:30am and 3pm. When those times were first scheduled, I was told it was okay if I went a little earlier or a little later and wasn't expected to go at those exact times. I tried to go pump at 9am, and my manager sent me a nasty email saying I did not need to be going an hour after getting to work. I was accused of pumping for 50 minutes, and apparently she timed me pumping. I was told that maybe I should wake up in the middle of the night and pump, so that I'm not needing to pump as soon as I wake up. One time I had my hands-free pumps in, my manager asked me how I know I need to pump if my baby isn't around to cry and tell me he is hungry. I constantly got dirty looks and exasperated deep sighs when I needed to pump. There were times that we were so busy, it was my scheduled time to pump, and I was told to wait and go pump when I got things caught up. I was forced to pump in the bathroom on 2 different days because they had an extra provider in clinic and "didn't have anywhere for me to pump". There was also an incident one Monday morning of one of my coworkers finding a bag of my breast milk tucked behind a mustard bottle in the door of the fridge, hidden! She said she didn't see it. She felt it when she went to grab the mustard bottle. I never put my milk bags in the door of the fridge. They were always on the top left shelf, in plain sight. The bag of milk wasn't any good and had to be dumped. Once I put my two weeks notice in, I was retaliated against by having to do a lot of extra work. So much work that it was at least a 2 or 3 person amount of work to do. My job was drawing labs and shooting xrays, but the added work was nurse duties, such as: rooming patients, UA, a1c finger stick, swabbing for strep, flu, covid, and rsv, h pylori breath test, std swabbing, urine culture, and still have my other futies of drawing all labs of any patients in clinic (Cardio, primary care, or Ortho) and xrays for those patients. This clinic sees 40-50 patients per day.
