Meetings at 8am — how common

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Anonymous wrote:OP is probably younger and expects the company or organization to bend around her needs. I mean honestly, the expectation that you are working but can't take meetings to get your kid to school is outrageous.

Get child care, attend the meetings, or find another job.

Also every working couple with kids one spouse always makes it clear their job is more important and other spouse and just needy and annoying to their boss and coworkers

I recall this women with one kid who worked for me once like this all the time I bent over backwards for her.

One day she goes you don’t know what it is to have a kid. I responded i have a 2, 7 and 9 year old at home. She never asked me if I had kids in her first 9 months at work

Why would she ask if you have kids? I never ask that, it’s completely inappropriate of any gender.

Clearly if you had THREE kids and she had no clue, they were not a big part of your daily life and never impacted your work schedule.

This seems unfair. I have a few coworkers who have very distinct boundaries between personal and professional. They never speak about their kids at work and it doesn’t impact their schedule. They make it work.

Sure, they likely have a SAHM spouse or grandparents or full time nanny. Get real.

None of those are true for the two coworkers I am thinking of. But you seem fixated on this narrative so I will just let you continue.

So you KNOW they don’t have a nanny or nearby grandparents and what job their spouse, yet they have never spoken about their kids nor had to take a sick day for a sick child?