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A Boring Dystopia
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One time, one of my coworkers showed up to work with his kid, because the babysitter called in sick. My manager, without skipping a beat, told him to go home and be the best dad he possibly could, then, not only did she not use his sick time for this day, she made it a department policy to allow unlimited* "parent days". One of the best managers I've ever had.
' * Fine print was basically, don't abuse it, but use it when you need it.
Get fucked if you don't have kids I guess
If you don’t have young kids, you don’t get sick nearly as often. It’s not like having a sick kid at home is a vacation. I don’t begrudge my coworkers their time off for illness or supporting family members with illness.
Thanks for telling me when I'm allowed to get sick. I'm sick of breeders acting like martyrs for deciding to have kids. You knew what your hobby entailed before you chose to participate.
The breeders, crotch goblin, "hobby" position is among the stupidest reddit positions out there, and there's a lot of really dumb ones. Children of Men is a solid flick that goes into the societal collapse associated with "lack of breeding." It's also just so obvious that society needs to kinda build on itself in order to continue.
And yeah, humans are a disease! Okay. I just can't get my head around being so anti one's own existence. It just doesn't make sense to me.
And nobody's being a martyr. People have different lives situationally, and in an ideal world perhaps it wouldn't have an affect on your workday, but it does, and sometimes accommodations need to be made, and sometimes it just isn't fair, que sera.