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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, I had to deal with this as a manager and it was the pits. Unavailable for hours at a time during the workday and a screaming baby on every call. Employee was overly candid, "sorry if you hear grunting, I'm breastfeeding and he is a noisy eater" "oh, I have to drop, baby just puked!" Etc so there wasn't even a veneer of this working out well and I had to have many conversations with HR. Unfortunately there was no requirement to have childcare per se, but a lot on remote working expectations that could be enforced so went down that path with some significant resistance. In the case of this woman her justification was that she was "too cheap" to get childcare and I basically had to spell it out for her that that was a drop in the bucket compared to losing her 200k/year remote job that was now at risk if she couldn't get it together. So, at least some people are just clueless. Nobody was more pissed off by it than fellow moms of young kids, myself included.[/quote]

Be careful with the breastfeeding. There is a legal right to breastfeeding breaks. [/quote]

Oh, we know lol. Spent way too much time discussing the nitty gritty of how to handle delicately and legally. This specific case was a little unique in that mom had a 7 month maternity leave, 2 month ramp up at part time, and was given a lot of leeway for the first few months back so the baby in question was over a year old when the lack of childcare really became an issue. [/quote]

You should have found a valid reason to fire this cretin.[/quote]

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