Breaking news. People actually want flexibility.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Same.

You Don't Like random Capitalization?

I work as an Editor and it drives me Nuts!

When I worked in Congress it REALLY drove me nuts - for some reason, government employees do random capitalization more than anyone else I've ever encountered. I think they think that capitalizing something shows respect.

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Why in the world would you be on a parenting discussion board, posting your irrelevant opinions, when YOU don't HAVE any KIDS. Please GO AWAY.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

No one said anyone was lazy. Different work styles. And also men or women it is a cold hard fact not everyone is there for a career, they would quit if they did not need the money.

The implication of OP's post - unless my pre-caffeinated self was misreading - is that the women who want these flexible schedules are aberrant.

Anonymous wrote: I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Same.

You Don't Like random Capitalization?

Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad and I don't want to work full time either. Unlike "most" other white people, the women in my family have always worked since we staggered off the boat from Ireland sometime in the 1840s. Working because your family needs the money but not really wanting to be there is something I call "normal."

What are you expecting, that corporations decide to pay people more so families decide they only need one income? That we return to 1950 levels of union membership and 1950s ratios of CEO to worker wages?
The investor class says "we're not going back!"

But I am still forced to do annual reviews, goal setting, succession planning, sending people on training, mentoring with a population of 43 percent of people who don't even want to be there. The 57 percent who want to be there often don't understand the 43 percent.

Yeah this is why we don’t have paid parental leave. The average mom doesn’t want to work. She doesn’t want to go on government welfare for a year to return to work when the child is age one. She wants a strong economy so she doesn’t have to work at all.

There’s a small % of women in high earning careers that want to return to the workforce. Women in cities like DC bemoan to lack of paid leave but the truth is, most American women don’t have any a program where they are encouraged to return to work 6 months or one year later.

Suggest you focus more on math skills than trying to start mommy wars on the internet.

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

No one said anyone was lazy. Different work styles. And also men or women it is a cold hard fact not everyone is there for a career, they would quit if they did not need the money.

I'm a dad and I don't want to work full time either. Unlike "most" other white people, the women in my family have always worked since we staggered off the boat from Ireland sometime in the 1840s. Working because your family needs the money but not really wanting to be there is something I call "normal."

What are you expecting, that corporations decide to pay people more so families decide they only need one income? That we return to 1950 levels of union membership and 1950s ratios of CEO to worker wages?
The investor class says "we're not going back!"

I don't have any kids and I'd rather not work full time if I didn't have to - and I definitely enjoy my flexible work schedule. I worked very hard to be able to WFH full time. Yes, to be able to to the dentist - but also just because this is how I want to live my life. My husband also works from home - and he also worked very very hard to be able to do this.

I don't mean to be rude but you should quit it with the random capitalization. It doesn't support your point that you're an excellent employee being dragged down by all those lazy moms.

Ma'am, this is a Wendy's

Women are not industrial robots, they are individuals with different personalities, needs, circumstances, preferences and goals. How can you expect everyone to follow same schedule?

You have dentist visits as your biggest issue, someone else may not even have time for that as they have to go regularly for cancer treatment, elderly mom's dialysis, kid's therapist etc etc. Obviously some can order food while others prefer to cook fresh food. Wimen arent a monolith.

And that’s what we had until this sexist return to work nonsense

Watching the news last night and found this interesting. A women group that focuses on working moms with kids at home did a Poll and found this out.

43 percent of working Moms work just for the money (most likely similar for Dads)

50 percent of women want a flexible work arrangement They hop on and hop off work working around chores, kids etc. For instance doing a bit before work a bit after kids in bed, maybe some multi tasking while waiting at bus stop on work phone.

50 percent of women want a rigid clear cut line of work hours than family hours. A clear work schedule such as I work 800 am to 430 pm exactly and that is work and well clock out hits that is family time do not disturb

It was interesting that between working Moms the two groups of Moms actually have trouble working together. I saw this at work as I had a working mom supervisor she was like logged on at home at 8 am sharp shooting out emails and making work requests and around 415 pm another flurry of requests and she logged off at 430 pm. In a work from home job she created her own imaginary work hours. I hated worked with her. I try to go to Dentists, meet someone lunch, even take a shower mid day and she be on top of me. I am more lets log on at 10 pm watching TV to wrap up work, jump on early if going out to Dentist.

To quote Rodney King why cant we just get along? But the point was you got only 67 percent of your working Moms who even want to be there and then on that 67 percent 1/2 the Moms want to work one way and the other half and another way.

i say results are similar for men However, Men don't do as much childcare