Yep, definitely discrimination IMO. I've seen it many times. Single people have less right to need time off than married people, married people have less right than married people with kids, married people with kids have less right to time off than single people (especially single mothers) with kids. I think it's a management problem and not necessarily a corporate problem. There are far too many terrible managers out there. Those that don't take into consideration all the people under them should not hold positions of authority. Policies need to be consistently applied to all those that function under them (of course exceptions can occasionally be made but it should not be a regular occurrence).
An example that bugged the crap out of me was when I was in Officer's Candidate School for the Marine Corps. The squad commander (another officer candidate) got to set the schedule for "fire watch" (late night shifts of candidates to monitor the squad bays). He made sure to give himself and others with families watch during the week so that he could go home when we got 23 hours off on the weekend, the rest of us were stuck rotating through watches on the weekend when we could have been off the base. It honestly didn't bug me much for myself but overall was unfair to everyone else. I called him on it but he ignored it. It's things like that which let you know who will be a good leader and who won't. I have little doubt that he never amounted to much as far as leadership goes.
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