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But...but when I'm home my cat snuggles with me in my lap and purrs and gives me little kitty licks on my forehead! It's so hard to leave him and go to work! Corporate America just doesn't understand the bond between me and my cat! My cat needs me there to watch him sleep like a lump for most of the day! What kind of horrible society is this where no one will pay me to sit at home and enjoy my cat!!!!!
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Waaah, waaah, waaah, I want employers to pay me to sit around and not work for an extended arbitrary amount of time of my choosing for doing nothing more than spreading my legs like a common whore and not using birth control. Why should I save up money and wait to have a baby until I can take time off without needing outside forces to pay for my life choices? I should be able to have a baby NOW and it's everybody else's responsibility to do the work I leave without any extra pay, take smaller compensation packages and no/reduced raises because the money for these paid extended maternity leaves have to come from somewhere, and I'll happily ignore the tired faces of my overworked colleagues as I visit twice a week with my infant in tow.
Oh, and sure I'll return, but I'll be coming in late and leaving early and get very little done. Any attempt to rebuke me will have me running to HR and/or the media on tenuous claims of discrimination. I will make special demands for breastfeeding that will disrupt the workplace and annoy everybody.
I'll repeat this at least two more times in quick succession so my employer is paying more to not work than for any actual work out of me and then I'll quit in the worst way possible: by running out the paid maternity leave and then not returning. I won't give any notice, either, so now whoever has been doing my work for free has to do it longer until they hire a new person for my position (if they bother to do so. Maybe they won't, since they have this new paid maternity leave and all. No free lunch and all).
And I won't give two shits about the far-reaching implications of all this, not until it affects me and any girlchildren I have once they grow up: that companies will simply not hire women, except in overly simplistic positions that a semi-frequent turnover rate won't matter, like secretarial. All these current efforts to get girls into STEM careers will be for naught because it would be too risky to have women of childbearing age in specialized roles.
When I decide to return to the workforce and/or when my daughters are entering and there's no work for us and we learn of the sexism because of the shit I demand, I will start screeching about the unfairness without any self-awarness.
Oh, and if at any point during my initial time in the workforce I face any real problems that requires time off, I'll freak out about not having extended paid time off and I'll harass all my colleagues to no end to get them to donate their vacation and sick leave to me.
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Well that sounds healthy.Quote
A new mother with an infant is caught in a vortex between uncontrollable love and utter despair.
I know a couple fully grown humans who do this really well and definitely out-cute any crotchnugget. Seriously, why contribute to overpopulation when you can get a one-time-cost realistic babydoll? I mean, seriously. If you have a thing for tiny human clothes and soulless eyes, get a doll! There are ones with computer chips if you also never want to sleep again, but that is optional. And you don't have to pay for new clothes for every growth spurt and it will never hate you.Quote
They start to smile and respond, hold their heads up in pictures and wear JEANS!! It is just too stinkin' cute.
It's called parenting because you are supposed to teacht the tiny feral human that they aren't allowed to do this shit.Quote
a few hours at a time. I know that sounds harsh ladies, but trust me -- you'll see. This dude is into everything. If I try to ingest any type of nourishment, he insists I share it with him, no matter how many second breakfasts he's had. And he is always trying to mess with my coffee -- which is just cruel.
Hell no.Quote
And because he is learning how to speak, he thinks we should all understand exactly what he is saying and if we don't, he shrieks at a very high volume.
The article says nothing of what it wants the rest of the workers to do: pick up the slack, I guess?Quote
Just ask Google, because when they decided to extended their maternity leave for new mothers to five months and made it paid, what do you think happened? That's right, more women started coming back after maternity leave.
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But...but when I'm home my cat snuggles with me in my lap and purrs and gives me little kitty licks on my forehead! It's so hard to leave him and go to work! Corporate America just doesn't understand the bond between me and my cat! My cat needs me there to watch him sleep like a lump for most of the day! What kind of horrible society is this where no one will pay me to sit at home and enjoy my cat!!!!!
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I don't understand why these people feel entitled to receive pay for work they did not perform, but I could live with the idea of 6-8 weeks' paid personal time (for men and women) IF it was offered to every employee under the same conditions, not just breeders. It should be spread or so you can only renew it every few years, so no shitting out one kid after the other and taking three Moo leaves in three years.
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stillwaters
:bawl
But...but when I'm home my cat snuggles with me in my lap and purrs and gives me little kitty licks on my forehead! It's so hard to leave him and go to work! Corporate America just doesn't understand the bond between me and my cat! My cat needs me there to watch him sleep like a lump for most of the day! What kind of horrible society is this where no one will pay me to sit at home and enjoy my cat!!!!!
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Where is the App to prevent self-aggrandizing mombies with their baby-related newsy-news?