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Genuine question here -- where and how are employees without children treated differently? In the US, besides parental leave at the birth of a child (which only some employers offer), are there employers that offer differing time off? I work in healthcare, and everywhere I've ever worked provides paid time off equally to everyone. The biggest difference is parents usually end up burning vacation days due to sick kids or school holidays
In my working experience it is the ultimate get out of work excuse. Few questions/resistance offered from managers who then make the other workers who don't have kids cover shifts, work late, do the crap jobs that nobody wants to do, etc
My husband (we’re childfree) is way more likely to get called into work on a weekend to fix something than his other coworkers are because they all have children, who are all teens by now, too. I guess spending time with your wife and going to the park on a Saturday just isn’t as important as taking your kid to the park on a Saturday. Hmm.
Has he ever tried setting boundaries around that? Is he getting compensated more for coming in on a weekend?
Yes, he gets paid for it. It’s just predictable and annoying that it’s always him “ because kids “. Definitely gets old.
Can he say no? Another way to view this is that because y'all don't have kids he has an opportunity to make more money than all his coworkers who have kids, assuming he's choosing to do this work
Yeah he’s said no before and they’ve either decided no one should do whatever was originally brought up or one of them will eventually “ miss out on family time “ to go do the work.
Guess it's time for you and he to have some kids! If you don't want to 'steal' pictures from facebook, there's always the new image generators.
I guess I've never had a job or been a manager who questioned someone for calling out sick. Doesn't matter why someone is calling out sick unless it becomes a pattern
parents are often afforded flexibility by their bosses that other don't receive, such as:
"sorry I was late, the school drop off line was slow" --> while their coworker who was equally late because traffic was just exceptionally bad because of a crash is given a write-up
"I won't be able to cover so and so's shift this weekend, my kid has a game" --> which leads to a coworker covering who also had plans, but the manager deems their plans less important and tells them they have to even though it's not their dpmt
I've seen both of these things play out exactly like that.