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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently I was in the minority, but my ES age kid did aftercare even though we had a hybrid schedule / someone is WFH most days. I don’t want my kid around when I am still working![/quote]

+1. DH and I work in private sector and one or the other is WFH every day. We still have a nanny for after school. If we couldn’t afford a nanny we would have signed up for aftercare at one of the 1,000 karate places or tutoring centers that offers them.

I have a hard time believing all these ESers are so independent after school. The fact is, the WFH parents are barely paying attention to work in the afternoons because they are transporting their children to activities, supervising them at home, etc. Which is fine if they can make it work (eg logging back in at night to compensate). But it’s a benefit they were taking advantage of, not something they were entitled to long term. So they shouldn’t act like the rug was pulled out from under them. They should have had childcare all along.[/quote]

Well said [/quote]

And that’s on a regular school day, which is, at most, 8 months of the year. There are snow days, delayed openings, teacher work days, sick days, long weekends, spring/winter break and summer.  I don’t believe that most WFH parents without childcare are taking leave on those days. I suspect that they are doing the bare minimum at their jobs on those days, and that is the real reason why they are now panicking.  [/quote]

Ugh. I’ll bite on this. When you wfh on a snow day, you can set your school aged child up with a good video, hot cocoa and then go work for a solid chunk of time.
When you work in person on a snow day or delayed opening, either the government is code red which you get paid for if you can’t telework or you call into work and use leave and drink hot cocoa too.

Either way, less work is done with in person office parents than with ones who have telework.

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My point is that these days (snow days, sick days, teacher work days, delayed opening and breaks) are not really outliers and equate to about 1/3 of the year.  Not having childcare when you are collecting a FT WFH salary, and have ES-age children and no regular childcare, means that you are stealing from your employer.  [/quote]

PP. I personally don’t care if someone is stealing from their employer because most employers are pretty sh*tty and the US Govt wastes way more money on propping up Boeing and huge farmers than on time theft.

But to reiterate my earlier point - WFH folks, you’ve had it pretty good until now. I hope you enjoyed it, and I don’t begrudge you the money and time you saved the last few years. The rest of us have been living in an RTO world and paying for FT childcare during this time. Now it’s your turn to figure it out.[/quote]

Dumabass, everyone is paying for ft childcare already. [/quote]

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