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Originally posted by shakran
Well Rubyee, a lot of people seem torn on this one. I'm not. I'm firmly with you on it. This kind of crap happens more often than you would ever imagine. In MANY work places kids are the magic ticket to get away with just about anything. Hell you can even get away with goofing off on the internet at work as long as you have children. "I was checking in on Little Johnny with the nursery's webcam." You can get all the time off you want even if you've already used all your vacation/sick days. You can even bring your squalling kid into work with you for a day, disrupting everyone else's work because "I just couldn't find a sitter."
There's a whole new generation of entitlement parents who think that because they have children they are entitled to special privledges. People build eyesores without permits "for the chilllldren" and get away with it (Judge Judy is being villified right now for suing her neighbor who built a lacrosse field in his back yard without a permit. He screwed up the field drainage and it's now draining muddy water into her swimming pool. The guy's excuse for his illegal field? The kids like it so he should get an exception to the law.) Stores have parking places, often as close to or closer to the store than handicapped spaces, that are designated as "mothers with children" spaces. Double stupid there - first off what about fathers with children. Second, children are not a disability, quit treating them as such.
The Entitlement Parents also feel that it's perfectly fine to let their kid run around, yell, and be generally obnoxious in restaurants, theaters, etc. They're too busy having a good time to discipline the kids, so everyone else has to deal with the uproar.
IMHO, if you have a kid that's great. More power to you. But it's not your employer's fault, and your employer gets no benefit out of your child, so you should not expect your employer to have to give you special treatment because of the kid.
You also do not have the right to impose your child on others. It is not excuseable for you to let your child disrupt other people's peace and quiet.
Basically, children do not in any way make you special to the point that you should get privlidges that others are not offered.
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I agree with lots of that. I hate, and deliberately park in, the mothers and baby spots. Kids are not a handicap, kiss my ass. My money is just as good, and no one's offering me a "married guy with heavy beer and charcoal to carry" spot.
For one, I get pissy that Fathers are seldom recognized, unless they are being blamed for not paying some check. You're gonna single out a certain demographic, and single out one gender while at it? That's plain stupid. But I wonder how many fathers grin sheepshly at those signs, and don't park there when not with mommy. They've handed over their dignity, and never felt the pain when it left.
As to the "I've got at kid" card, I've worked, and work, with a "kid card" player. It bugs the living shit out of me. My wife and I haven't had kids yet, by choice. That does not mean our needs, schedule-wise, bend at the whim the office parents. The kids are they're damn problem.
When I do have kids, I expect to make sacrifices, not ask others to make them for me. I know having kids won't be easy, and won't be cheap.
But they'll be my kids, they'll be my blessing, not someone else's curse.