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[quote=Anonymous]It's not about anything except people being overly sensitive. I would do a time sheet for somebody if they needed me too, if they offered me a Starbucks I would say I take cream and sugar.

I do favors in the office all the time. Kid sick...favor. Have cancer... Favor.  Sometimes I get a Starbucks, sometimes nothing, sometimes Redskins tickets. Sometimes I say pay it forward.

Maybe that is why the SAhM is getting so upset, team environments work that way, I am use to it.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey 12:53, I'm the Pp you quoted and I WOH.  To be clear, your request IS insulting and ant SAHM you ask to do this will likely feel and be insulted. [/quote]

I don't find it insulting if someody asks for help. If YOU find it insulting it IS super sensitive to read into a request for help. SAHM are super sensitive about their time being considered valuable, or theirs or for THEIR children. I did not say no WOHM are going to be super sensitive or unhelpful, I just said it was less likely.[/quote]

Go back an re-read the request.  It wasn't about a "request for help."  It was about seeing if a SAHM would do it in exchange for "gas money."  Those two things are different.  It is insulting.

Here's an unrealistic example that might illuminate it a bit:  what if a more senior person in your firm asked you to do her time sheets (or billing or any other annoying task) -- and asked you to do it every month -- in exchange for "coffee money."  Of course you would feel insulted and slighted.  The implication is that you would do a hassle task that she doesn't want to do, and that you would do it for a nominal amount because you must need the money.  Do you see how this is different from one colleague asking another colleague for the occasional favor.  There is a world of difference between the two.[/quote][/quote]

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