how to tell administrator..

[emeraldeyed315]

I want to tell work this week (I'm a teacher.) My main administrator is who I want to start with but he is super busy and does not work in the building I am in. We are fairly close and have a good relationship...he was my teacher growing up! For me to tell him in person I'd have to make an appointment....which would be weird for us. Is it rude/improper/unprofessional if tomorrow I just call to tell him? I'm sure even in person it would be "hey I'm pregnant....due this summer." and he'd say "cool." haha. No talk of maternity leave yet. 

WWYD?

[erlizamac]

I'm probably no help because I just walked into my principal's office and said "so......I'm pregnant. Due in July, so it won't affect anything for the end of the year except my ability to easily get up the stairs....I'll be here for testing!" If you have a good relationship I don't think it would be wrong to call him to tell him...or maybe call to see if he's got a free moment one afternoon, that you have something you "want to run by him"

[yl]

I made an appt and it freaked my principal out! His secretary asked what the appt was about and I was taken by surprise when she asked that and didn't know what to say, so I said it was an HR issue. Well, that made my principal think I was going to quit and he was all worried.

So if you don't need to make an appt, it might be better to be more causal about it.

[emeraldeyed315]

Thanks...telling my principals is easy because I see them so often but finding time to tell my fine arts admin face to face is really tough!

[jessijean]

I had it sort of easy, I teach at the collegiate level and a colleague accidentally spilled my news to the department head before I had a chance. Since I called in sick to a dept meeting she thought I told him it was morning sickness. Nope!

I would just give him a call if I were you.

[mehlaknee]

I'm close with my manager. I texted. I think calling is totally fine.

[bshelly]

I agree, calling is totally fine. I may actually send an email to our superintendent. She's not in the building a ton, but used to be my principal before she took her new position. I told my principal when we got back from break because I was still miserably sick and didn't know how much of the week I'd make it through. I'm slowly telling my colleagues before it starts getting too obvious.

[shopgirl]

I think calling is fine.

yl - When I was pregnant with DS, my boss thought I was quitting, too. I was really nervous to tell him, and walked in with a single sheet of paper (with my plan for leave), and he totally thought I was giving notice. Today I just walked in and said "oh hey, by the way..."

[yl]

Jan 20, 2015 15:44:48 GMT -5 shopgirl said:

I think calling is fine.

yl - When I was pregnant with DS, my boss thought I was quitting, too. I was really nervous to tell him, and walked in with a single sheet of paper (with my plan for leave), and he totally thought I was giving notice. Today I just walked in and said "oh hey, by the way..."

I'm glad I'm not the only one this happened to!

[toconnor]

I told my department supervisor a few weeks ago (just stopped in his office and said hey ya got a minute) because I was supposed to attend training out of state this summer in mid july (obviously not happening) once he started breathing again he was cool and happy for me...I have since found out there are three of us due this summer

[shelby407]

I'm a teacher also and told my boss two weeks ago... I just tried for a couple days to catch him when he was in his office. Bad halls just told him I'm pregnant, due in summer so it should effect this year.... I haven't talked to him about maternity leave yet.. Not sure how that works since we already have summers off? But I deff want to have six weeks off when school starts

[emeraldeyed315]

I ended up just calling him today and he was super nice. No need to make any plans just yet. He kept reminiscing of his sons who are 2 years apart like my kids will be. It was nice:)