Job interview and trying to fall pregnant ? ! ? !?

Question

My husband and I have been trying to fall pregnant for the last 5 months. My job isn't that secure at my present company due to the company failing financially.

I'm looking for a new job. I have an interview this week. Do I have to mention about trying to fall pregnant?

If I do fall pregnant, how do I tell my new boss?

Answer 1

And, pregnancy is a God-given right of marrieds, and unless your pregnancy and later absense will threaten the business, or your or your fetus's well-being, you need say nothing.  There are millions of women that for faith reasons do not practice birth-control. .. which is none of the interviewer's business. Whether you're in this group or not, you needn't disclose anything until you are definitively showing and wish to talk about it.  If you do mention it, you risk not getting to prove your worthiness as many employers would unfairly find a reason to not set a second interview.  Discretion is the better part of job-hunting.

Answer 2

If you are not pregnant when hired you do not need to say anything.  If you are then you should.

In the US each state has its own disability program that you would qualify for without any expense to the employer.

Answer 3

No, you don't have to mention it.  But it sure is pathetic to mislead a company like that.  They have a need and they are looking for the right person for the job.  Then here you come, promising to work for them and then immediately taking time off.  It's women like you that give companies justification for hiring only men.  Men don't s***w companies over by taking a job and then saying they need up to 3 months off for maternity leave.  And then on top of that, many women decide not to come back to the workplace, which means that the company has wasted all that time and money on you, only to have to try to find someone else.  Someone else who - if they're smart - won't be a woman in her child-bearing years.

If you do get pregnant, I suggest you tell your new boss, "I'm really sorry for being pathetic and s******g your company over, but I need to take off a couple of months so that I can have a baby and decide whether or not I even want to come back to this job.  With any luck, my children will be sterile so that I won't pass on these discourteous genes of mine."