{"id":6903,"date":"2025-08-20T07:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:50:43","slug":"i-refused-to-cover-for-my-coworker-while-she-took-her-miscarriage-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6903","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Cover for My Coworker While She Took Her Miscarriage Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"411\">I work in a small five-person team. Recently, my coworker Anna had a tragic miscarriage at six months and took two weeks off. She was leading a project, and since I\u2019m the only one trained in her specialty, my manager asked me to cover.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"567\">I refused. I had already covered for someone the month before and was exhausted. The team is now overwhelmed, the project is failing, and they blame me.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"802\">What they don\u2019t know is that a year ago, when my mom was hospitalized, Anna covered for me, missed a deadline, and then accused me of lying about my mom being sick to escape responsibility. She pretended nothing happened afterward.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"974\">Because of that betrayal, I couldn\u2019t bring myself to help her this time. The project may fail, but I won\u2019t sacrifice myself again for someone who once tried to ruin me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work in a small five-person team. Recently, my coworker Anna had a tragic miscarriage at six months and took two weeks off. She was leading a project, and since I\u2019m the only one trained in her specialty, my manager asked me to cover. I refused. I had already covered for someone the month before &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}