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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you worked at a company that outright banned telework and required you be on site 42.5 hours per week, monitored by badging out with time cards that are a felony to misrepresent on, I don’t want to hear how you managed pre covid. Jesus christ, people. Your quite cushy lives in 2019 are not comparable in this situation. Not at all. [/quote]

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Pre-Covid I worked in person 40 hours a week (basically without access to the outside world) and was never able to telework and my husband was also in person 40 hours a week unable to telework. Our commutes were 30 minutes to an hour depending on traffic. In 2019, we had one child in daycare and another child in Kindergarten with before and after care. If our kids were sick or the school called us to pick them up early, one of us had to  use leave to take care of the child. On days that school was out and we did not have the day off, either one of us took the day off or we used the aftercare program (it was open on teacher work days and some holidays, it still is, by the way). Our kindergartener had soccer once a week after school and both kids had swimming once a week after school, and they were busy with friends and parties and activities on the weekend. No complaints!

During Covid, we both teleworked for about a month after Covid hit, then DH was back to work full time in person in May while I was able to find a position that allowed me to telework up until the following spring when our older child when back to school in person. Younger child was in preschool starting July 2020 and I managed the older child's virtual school while also working my demanding job from home. That was tough. Like much tougher than life pre-Covid. As soon as school started the following spring, both kids were in aftercare at school. We only dropped it last year because DH found a work from home job and they're old enough to not bother him when they get home.

So yeah, that's my story. People dealt with it before Covid, during Covid and now, after Covid. You can surely deal with it yourself.

But really, PP, aside from all that, it's truly idiotic that you don't understand that a LOT of people have jobs aren't flexible and don't allow telework. Step outside of your little bubble sometime and look around.[/quote]

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