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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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 [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

Well the PP is a male complaining about his female colleague, and we know who is default parent 99% of the time, especially 15 years ago. [/quote]

I thought the poster's point (I don't see where the poster said they were male) was that the poster had been the one taking it on the chin while the woman begged off for family and the woman never considered the possibility that other people have personal obligations too. This is always the problem with the folks who jealously protect their work life balance. There is usually someone on the other side of that equation who has to wait by the proverbial printer while someone else trots off. I work with someone who persists in asking us to change the time of a standing meeting every time something about her own schedule changes. I roll my eyes and make the adjustments I need to make on my end so that her life can be just so. She has two kids, and I have three.[/quote]

That is the two jobs poster, which has been demonstrated as male. [/quote]

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