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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get it. This was what it was like when I had my kids in the late 2000s. [/quote]

We all agree that you truly don’t get it, PP.[/quote]

+1. It was like this when I raised my kids, born in 2002 and 2004. And I ended up feeling like a crappy employee, a crappy spouse and a crappy parent.  It wasn’t good for my kids. It wasn’t good for my mental health. If I close my eyes, I can still panic of last minute snow days and kids waking up with fevers in my gut.  Moving into a federal 3 telework days a week job with 9:30 to 2:30 core hours (but can take a half hour lunch 11:30-1:30) was a game changer.  Just because I did it for ten years doesn’t mean women coming after me should have to. It’s better for employees, kids, and families if a job can allow telework and flex schedule.  And it’s true that not all jobs can have telework.  But maybe job flexibilities, like job availability and job pay,  are something people should consider when accepting a job or choosing a career.   And the “I suffered so you should too” attitude is, frankly, gross. How about “I suffered, and I don’t wish that on my own kids and their peers as they enter the workforce”?[/quote]

I completely agree with you but I also think some people are just pointing out that people like [b]OP are screaming bloody murder after two months of living like many people lived their entire careers.[/b] Our country is in a scary place and we are all going to need some resilience to get through a tough time. In my own family, we’ve been affected but we are doing our best to keep our heads up and enjoy life despite being put out by our less flexible schedule. Perhaps the difference is we do not see this as a forever thing, just a time to get through.[/quote]

the gaslighting is sad.  You haven't had this your entire career.  You haven't been told sunday night that your new schedule forever after is 10-6p starting Monday.  You haven't been through any of this.[/quote]

Had it every Sunday night for eight years in my old job, I often travel to different cities on short notice.

Also worked OT all the time and vacations canceled last minute a lot.

My friend in IT went on tons of business trips around 40-45 a year. He was told not to return home at end of business trip last minute a lot. He fly to Phoenix lets say for week and often Friday at 4 pm he find out he is needed in San Fran on Sunday night due to new system issue. He would not have time to fly home to NY.

And when I worked home in Consulting if unassigned which was very rare often Sunday night I was told keep work phone on, keep email on and back then they even had my home phone and wifes phone number. I recall Sunday night at nine pm, I plugged in my cell phone upstairs to charge. Then around 930 pm about to check work lap top email. All at once my home phone rings and is Partner mad at me, he called my cell at 926 pm I did not answer, then emailed me at 926 then called my home phone at 930 said he was about to call wifes cell phone and then my MIL if he had to. I had to be on 7am flight to Mlwaukee. People dont pay people to do nothing. I was noncharge the next week and I needed to be booked. Off I went. I got yelled at never leave phone again

Big deal that’s why it is called a job. [/quote][/quote]

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