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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the millennials I know with two working parents, even if they work from home, have some form of regular professional childcare. [/quote]

+1 and they are very responsible.  The ones that get me are the 20 somethings with no kids that expect time off for every friends wedding, bachelor party (destination party for which they need several days), shower (again a destination party for which they need several days) plus lots and lots of mental health days plus remote time so they can work from wherever their significant other is, and also don’t want to check email on their days away from the office.  I may retire early and let the millennials figure this out!   [/quote]

I am an older millennial, and I agree with the 20-something attitudes. Work to live, not live to work. [/quote]

I'm a Gen Xer and I also agree with this - why shouldn't you take your leave to go do fun things? I assume they're not taking PTO they don't have for this, so why do you care what they're doing with it? And you shouldn't check email while you're out of the office. You're using your leave, so take leave and be away. [/quote]

This!!

And for the VA nurse, sounds like a management issue. If your coworkers are truly using all of their sick and annual leave and continue to call out sick, they must be using LWOP. That’s either covered under FMLA or [b]will become a larger issue with HR and management soon enough.[/b] It’s not like they’re using all their leave, calling out, and still getting paid. [/quote]

VA RN again. No, management of this giant, sprawling complex does not care. A demand to show documentation results in a EEOC complaint or union demand letter.  A few of those episodes and managers learn to stand down.  Much easier to just shift the workload onto the conscientious people who do show up. And so it persists, year after year.

and to the many PPs saying but, but, but more expensive -- yeah, that's why you make good decisions at the front end. Don't buy things you can't afford, be that a overpriced degree, a fourth bathroom in a new build in Frederick or that third kid. THAT is what feels entirely different than prior generations.  I cannot imagine my grandparents (b. 1910) signing a mortgage on a dream home and expecting other people to solve their $ problems when things went predictably south due to know high monthly payments.

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