Re: A Glaring Lack of the Obvious

In the Year of the Golden Pig, the Great and Powerful Kurt Busiek
declared:
On 2007-12-12 11:23:22 -0800, Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:

I think everyone's boss should be equally reasonable or unreasonable,
regardless of whether there are children involved. If this means
making all bosses more reasonable, so much the better.

I'm not sure I agree as stated. I'm imagining this scenario:

PARENT: I need to leave early. My child is vomiting blood.


Here's the problem -- no one's complaining about breeders getting
time off because their sprogs are ill. The complaint is that bosses
will let people take time off for trivial reasons if they use the
magic words, "with my kid."

"I need Tuesday off so I can chaperon my son's class trip to the zoo."

"I need to leave early tomorrow for a parent-teacher conference."

"My son has a Little League game tonight, so someone else will have
to stay late to finish the project."

My experience, which matches that of other childless people I've
talked to, is that most people who use these excuses don't make any
significant effort to make up the work, and bosses expect the
childless employees to pick up the slack because spending time with
kids is more important than anything we'd do if we got to leave
early. And don't you dare complain that Bob should stick around and
finish his report instead of spending time with his kids, because
that makes you an insensitive clod who doesn't understand what it
means to be a parent.

--
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
Fry: He must have used a sleep-ray on me. Sleep-rays exist in the
future, right?
Leela: No.
Fry: Oh. Then I must've fallen asleep.
-Futurama
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