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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

You are right that you should not be doing personal stuff during business hours. That is why moms get a bad rap at work and are put on mommy track.  You should make it up by working longer hours, at night, or on weekends.[/quote]

I've done personal stuff at almost every office job I've ever had. The only exceptions are part time telemarketing and data entry jobs I had during college (which were not really "office jobs" since we didn't have offices or even real computers). Everyone I know, male and female, spends time at work dicking off.  Some people spend time socializing with co-workers, checking sports scores, shopping online, circulating internet memes, and others spend time paying bills, reading news online, whatever. I think there is more stigma for women doing kid/family stuff than for guys talking about sports and reading the newspaper, which I know my father spent a chunk of every work morning doing. (He was a lawyer.) Wasn't it sort of traditional during the Mad men era that businessmen would start every day in the office drinking coffee and reading the newspaper? Think of it as a time honored tradition . . . [/quote]

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