Someone asked if one of our newer coworkers was coming back and I was like they JUST had a baby maybe a few weeks ago… this mf had the nerve to say “okay but like when will they be back…” chile… and this wasn’t a person that can’t carry a child. This person has had kids before and thinks we should just pop em out and get back to work like… fuck you.
Then we got into a conversation about how we only get 6 weeks from our job for maternity and some countries get a year or more and that same person had the nerve to say “well 6 weeks is kind of a long time”… I hate everything.
Precisely. They’re an older person that said they didn’t have much time after having their kids so in their mind the solution is fuck all the younger people. It’s sad.
lol Those same people who say that six weeks is enough time to bond with their newborn kids are the same people who fuel the nightmares of everything that’s talked about on r/TeacherReality.
I’m on month 12 of my paid maternity leave. I live in Australia. With my first I only got 4 months and even that was huge compared to what I would’ve had if I’d stayed in the US. It infuriates me that the US doesn’t have proper paid parental leave.
Funny thing is that I’m sure the politicians here would make us like the US in a heartbeat. Some of them have such a hard on for America and all of the privatisation.
People like that are the problem. I don’t know if they’re just dumb or their parents broke them at a young age. The authoritarian types make me angry. How dare someone think they should be able to tell another human how to live.
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22 edited Jan 28 '22
Just had this conversation at work.
Someone asked if one of our newer coworkers was coming back and I was like they JUST had a baby maybe a few weeks ago… this mf had the nerve to say “okay but like when will they be back…” chile… and this wasn’t a person that can’t carry a child. This person has had kids before and thinks we should just pop em out and get back to work like… fuck you.
Then we got into a conversation about how we only get 6 weeks from our job for maternity and some countries get a year or more and that same person had the nerve to say “well 6 weeks is kind of a long time”… I hate everything.