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I am one of 2 people in my department and we service the entire continent. He has been on paternity leave THREE TIMES in the years i've been here and each time he gets 5 weeks off.
I swear every time he takes off, it's a busy part of the year and i'm absolutely slammed doing everything by myself and customers don't understand.
Then he also gets like 4 weeks of vacation, so it feels really unfair for me with my dog and no kids. But then again, i hate kids and want nothing to do with them, so i guess he needs those 5 weeks.
You make it sound like paternity leave is a vacation. The poor bastard didn’t sleep for 4 of those 5 weeks.
He made a choice
It's not compulsory to breed.
His wife is a stay at home mom, so I think it's a break for her more than for him. She finally gets help during the day.
The amount of times my maternity leave was referred to as a vacation.....ugh.
Dude seriously. I had a whopping two weeks off for my paternity leave and people were seriously acting like Id just come back from holiday.
The first week I literally lived at the hospital (major complications with the delivery). The second week I was home with the infant alone as my wife wasnt released yet. What vacation? I slept like 24 hours total in two weeks time.
I had two weeks for maternity leave as well. First week in the hospital with a new abdominal wound and a newborn that didn't know the difference between day and night yet. Second week was for crying every day that I had to go back to work.
Maybe they should hire another person. Your problem shouldn't be with this dude who's doing this thing that literally creates a new generation.
And you should get a legit amount of vacation, but paternity leave also isn't vacation.
But he also needs to stop having his kids during busy season, come on guy.
I guarantee that during those 5 weeks paternity he was jealous of your office work and well defined sleep schedules.
I mean he wanted the kid more apparently
Yeah we should all want to be wage slaves and make that a priority over our own families and loved ones.
Yeah we all should be baby machines, making sure the labour force is big enough..
God forbid people want to experience the joy of parenthood.
God forbid people want to enjoy a life without them
No one is forcing you to have kids, dude.
It's not your coworker's fault that your employer unfairly punishes you when he has to take time off for his kids.
Point went right over your head.
Having to cover for your coworker because he had kids isn't the same as being forced to have children.
Yeah because he should be timing what months he has sex with his wife to accommodate your employers' schedule /s
This is the fault of your employer for understaffing your department.