I have unpopular opinions.
Oct. 25th, 2009 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
napoleonherselfhttp://www.forbes.com/2009/10/22/maternity-leave-survey-work-forbes-woman-time-vacation.html
Um.
You have made a decision, of your own free will. You presumably know that this decision will result in a great deal of inconvenience, even difficulty for you over the years, and presumably you have decided it's worth the trouble.
Why, then, does anyone else owe you something?
Why should you get extra time off just to deal with the results of a decision you made? Can I make some other, different decision, and get to take off work because of it, in addition to the "regular" vacation/sick time I get?
No?
Only childbirth counts for that?
Well, then. Thank you for doing us all such a favor then, I guess. Carry on being a protected class with extra rights and privileges that you deserve because, um... something.
This is a topic I've gone on about before, and I know it's just screamin' into the wind and all, but... yeah. I understand that giving birth to and caring for a new baby is a lot of work and physical trauma and all, but I'm not sure why you should expect your workplace to make it up to you. From what I heard, raising a kid meant making sacrifices... whether it's not trying to drag a ten-month-old to that new action flick that you really really want to see, or not trying to get your job to subsidize your having added a family member.
Of course, I've never had kids, so I could be wrong.
Um.
You have made a decision, of your own free will. You presumably know that this decision will result in a great deal of inconvenience, even difficulty for you over the years, and presumably you have decided it's worth the trouble.
Why, then, does anyone else owe you something?
Why should you get extra time off just to deal with the results of a decision you made? Can I make some other, different decision, and get to take off work because of it, in addition to the "regular" vacation/sick time I get?
No?
Only childbirth counts for that?
Well, then. Thank you for doing us all such a favor then, I guess. Carry on being a protected class with extra rights and privileges that you deserve because, um... something.
This is a topic I've gone on about before, and I know it's just screamin' into the wind and all, but... yeah. I understand that giving birth to and caring for a new baby is a lot of work and physical trauma and all, but I'm not sure why you should expect your workplace to make it up to you. From what I heard, raising a kid meant making sacrifices... whether it's not trying to drag a ten-month-old to that new action flick that you really really want to see, or not trying to get your job to subsidize your having added a family member.
Of course, I've never had kids, so I could be wrong.
