Comments on: Take Our Children to Work Day: Workplace reform can begin with you http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2003/04/07/take-our-children-to-work-day-workplace-reform-can-begin-with-you/ Advice at the intersection of work and life Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:44:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: How to win slot machines http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2003/04/07/take-our-children-to-work-day-workplace-reform-can-begin-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-184439 How to win slot machines Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:43:21 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2003/04/07/take-our-children-to-work-day-workplace-reform-can-begin-with-you/#comment-184439 How is this stinking piece of poo sposed to fool anybody? Surely it'll only engender further cynicism in an electorate that only belatedly, and increasingly bitterly, has seen the Libs for the vile corporate lapdog scum they are... and finally, their 'economic management credentials' are rightly being interpreted as the blind stinginess of refusing to invest in our earning capacity. How is this stinking piece of poo sposed to fool anybody? Surely it'll only engender further cynicism in an electorate that only belatedly, and increasingly bitterly, has seen the Libs for the vile corporate lapdog scum they are… and finally, their 'economic management credentials' are rightly being interpreted as the blind stinginess of refusing to invest in our earning capacity.

]]> By: Keyser http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2003/04/07/take-our-children-to-work-day-workplace-reform-can-begin-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-179395 Keyser Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:15:44 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2003/04/07/take-our-children-to-work-day-workplace-reform-can-begin-with-you/#comment-179395 I think this is (or should be anyway) an excellent excuse to get canned. Put bluntly, I don't care that you opted to breed. I don't care that your choice is now impacting your ability to perform your job duties (unless you're cutting into my productivity, then we have a problem and I'm not going to be polite or understanding about it). I'm utterly unimpressed with anyone who would opt to continue struggling (which is a polite term for failure) with pulling double duty as a parent and a professional if a logical 2nd option (in this case getting a nanny) is available. I sure as hell don't think your kids are necessary for the continuation of the species, much less cute or special and I definitely SHOULD NOT have to deal with the fallout from the choices you've made while I'm trying to do my job. I agree 100% that the modern workplace does not accommodate working parents. The raft of extra concerns and responsibilities that come with having a child don't mesh with a working environment where you're expected to maintain focus and productivity. I for one seriously hope this doesn't change, because why in the hell should some distracted flake who's spending half the day in the office on the phone coordinating some kind of kid-related disaster-in-progress be afforded the same compensation/treatment as a working professional who doesn't have a bunch of non-work-related distractions cutting into their productivity? Seems pretty cut and dried to me. I think this is (or should be anyway) an excellent excuse to get canned. Put bluntly, I don't care that you opted to breed. I don't care that your choice is now impacting your ability to perform your job duties (unless you're cutting into my productivity, then we have a problem and I'm not going to be polite or understanding about it). I'm utterly unimpressed with anyone who would opt to continue struggling (which is a polite term for failure) with pulling double duty as a parent and a professional if a logical 2nd option (in this case getting a nanny) is available. I sure as hell don't think your kids are necessary for the continuation of the species, much less cute or special and I definitely SHOULD NOT have to deal with the fallout from the choices you've made while I'm trying to do my job.

I agree 100% that the modern workplace does not accommodate working parents. The raft of extra concerns and responsibilities that come with having a child don't mesh with a working environment where you're expected to maintain focus and productivity. I for one seriously hope this doesn't change, because why in the hell should some distracted flake who's spending half the day in the office on the phone coordinating some kind of kid-related disaster-in-progress be afforded the same compensation/treatment as a working professional who doesn't have a bunch of non-work-related distractions cutting into their productivity? Seems pretty cut and dried to me.

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