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Now our first story comes from Big Bumblebee 5795 and it does have an update after it as well.

So am I the arsel for not answering any contact from work while on maternity leave?

I work for my cousin. We're in the same field but he owns a business.

I started working for him five years ago and worked my way up to second

or third in command at a fairly small company. I took nine months of maternity leave, starting

two weeks before my due date. My child is now six months old, meaning I'm currently in my seventh

month of leave and go back to work in about 10 weeks. During the last seven months, there's

been a few crises at work. They called me

and I fixed it. They should not have been doing this due to my maternity leave, but I didn't

mention it because these were legitimate crisis, and most of the time it was my cousin asking.

However, because I'm entering the end of my leave, I want some time completely free of work

to recharge before I have to dive back in.

So starting two weeks ago, I stopped answering my phone. At some point it died, so I put it in the

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