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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand. In my world you don't go on business trips and you reschedule non-life threatening surgery to go to your parent's funeral.

I imagine I would feel the same way about whatever the siblings have going on.

There's no date that's, "Sorry, I can't make it" unless you are in the hospital or physically unable to be there for some reason.[/quote]

So the adult child is just supposed to let his own children starve in the streets when he loses his job because he doesn't go on this business trip?[/quote]

Unless this child is carrying the nuclear football, seems like an employer might understand that they would like a day or so off to attend the funeral of their parent. But I was able to drop everything when my parent had a health emergency and stay with them in another city and state for three months and my employer held my job, did what they could to support me and I really found out who among my colleagues (turns out all of them!) were good people. I will bend over backwards for any of them at any point now. [/quote]

Even the guy with the nuclear football has a replacement for these situations. No one is that important.[/quote]

The international business trip is a bad excuse. Jobs that send you on trips abroad also tend to be white collar and not the kind that fire you for missing a single 'shift'. The adult child's children are not going to starve  :roll: [/quote]

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