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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel you OP.  I'm an RN at the VA, meaning we get a very generous amount of leave as feds compared to RNs in other hospitals.  We have a wiiiide age range among the RNs, from 25 yo to ~65 yo.

100% of us have children, some still at home and others grown now.  But at some point, 100% of us have had small children at home.

The amount of time that the current under-40 crowd is away from work is nothing short of astonishing. They take all their sick days and vacation days (ok) and then they KEEP taking days off, calling out at the last minute.  Three of these nurses don't have paid childcare - they just juggle with their spouse or have Mom do it. [b]And when spouse or Mom gets the sniffles [/b]or has their own doctor appt?  Why naturally my coworkers call out sick.

We -- Gen X -- absolutely did not act like this. [b]I have no idea what has led the current crop of Millennial parents to conclude that they only need to show their face at work about 75% of the time and shove their work onto the conscientious RNs who don't call out every few days. [/b]

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Probably a multi-year pandemic where you were required to isolate and keep yourself and kids at home at any and every sign of a respiratory illness?

Many daycares still require you to keep your kids home if they are sick. Even schools give you the side-eye; DD had a sore throat in December, the school called me to pick her up immediately and remarked twice to me "she said she's had a sore throat ALL WEEK".

We're expected to keep our kids home so they don't pass their germs around yet also expected to work as if we never have sick kids.

Also it's not really a flex to brag about sending your kids to school no matter how sick they are. I knew a Gen X mom who made her DD continue to go to school after she hurt an ankle, telling her to "walk it off". Turns out the ankle was broken and suffered permanent damage to the growth plates because mom refused to take her to a doctor because she "can't take off work for a twisted ankle".[/quote]

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