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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Content_Plate1802 on 2023-10-01 19:18:02.

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I (F27) work in a team of 5. One of the members, lets call her Ava is pregnant. Our company allows only 6 months paid maternity leave.

Ava has been having a rough pregnancy and has been ordered bed rest by her doctor. She is only in her second trimester. But she has already been calling in sick a lot and has extingushed her paid sick leaves. Her and her husband is renting and are not doing great financially. They need her income for the next 5 months till baby is due and she can officially go on paid maternity leave.

Our boss asked us to figure it out. We cannot actually do our work remotely. To enable her to work remotely, we will have to dedicate hours of our work time working on behalf of her physically and gathering info she requires. It will be very difficult to do and to complete our own work, we will have to work additional hours. Our company don’t pay overtime.

All others in my team already have family and kids. I am the only one without kids or as others said, responsibilities. They asked me to do the additional work to help Ava out.

I said no. I sympathise with Ava. But she made a decision to have a baby and I cannot work extra hours everyday to help her.

They said I was being an AH for not helping. I told them if they cared so much, let us all help together. Then everyone will fewer extra hours to work.

They complained they cannot since they have family to get back to and responsibilities. I said I have my own life too. Either we all help together, taking turns or we dont help. I am not going to sacrifice all my days for her.

None of them want to help and I let our boss know. He hired a temporary replacement for Ava.

Ava and rest of my collegues are calling me a AH now.

AITA?