monkey's paw / evil genie / etc:
Wish granted. All employees - with or without children - will now be treated badly and given no flexibility
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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Based on the tone and language of the discussion, this is very USA things.
And for that I've a song.
Classic equality/equity debate.
The long and short of it is, having children is not merely a personal benefit to the parent, it's a critical and necessary part of any functioning society. The proof is simply that you and everyone else owe your existence to your/their parents.
The burden of this task falls on the shoulders of parents. It's about as much work as a full time job.
Think of it as paying it forward for your parents and your own childhood. Maybe put aside the individualism that is rotting modern society from the inside out.
As much as a full time job? There are 168 hours in a week. Work is only 40. For many years, not even the night is your own. You are on call 24x7. Imagine a tech office asking a team of two to cover a 24x7 oncall rotation for for not 1, but 2 major applications that could crash at anytime, and do so often one way or another. Then ask them to spend 40 hours a week on a 2nd job. The reality is that we as a society (in the US at least) do children a disservice. Each one is different. They learn differently, they feel differently, their needs are different. And we hand the controls over to two people with no experience, and hardly any sleep to make some of the most important decisions in a childs life. Parents should have more support from trained professionals. That in turn would allow them to be more effective at work. Even couple where one parents stays home with the kids needs help. Often an outside perspective can spot things the people who are there all the time miss.
This question is what you ask when you want to get your employees fighting against each other and not against the boss who is stealing all of their money.
The first step would be to fix wage theft and then the second step might be to get rid of the ultra rich, or maybe those could be done in the reverse order. At some point long after those things are accomplished we could talk about how people get jealous when they see someone else who apparently gets privileges that they wish they had. And sometimes there are small changes that can be made that will alleviate those situations.
In my country, a parent must be at home when their children arrive home. If both parents work, that means one has to come to an arrangement with their workplace to be home at 3.
If a non-parent has an important reason to be home at 3, they should also be allowed to leave early, but preventing kids from electrocuting themselves is a pretty important reason.
Those who take the responsibility of caring for society's newest members should be given more leeway/support in many areas, not just employment. I don't have kids (yet, God willing), I'm just not unempathetic/extremely self-centered/nihilistic. We do live in a society, after all.
I could really go for a 6 months hiatus and the same for my girlfriend. We both never had kids.
I know that having kids isn't a vacation though. It's a lot of work. So it's not quite the same.
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Maybe then they would have children too.