People have mostly given begrudging reasons. Women should strive to be better prepared - cmon, that cannot be taken seriously.
But if it did, as you suggest, become a more common practice you could at any time have many mothers in a workplace coming in late, leaving for an hour in the afternoon, or leaving an hour early. It just isn't practical. It's ideal, yes, but not practical. A more practical solution would be for the mother to take an hour off unpaid every day and for that money to pay another employee to take on the extra work. At least that would be fairer and would formalise the situation so everyone knew where they stood and no one felt they were being hard done by.
Ah yeah I can see it from both sides alright, I just do think that as a society we are a bit less supportive than we could be of breastfeeding women.
Itd probably drive me mad in the workplace too, particularly if the individual was a general slacker anyway.
Fair enough!
Maybe I'm just bitter and twisted because I can't have children so will be unable to take advantage of some of these nifty policies.(Or maybe I'm just fed up answering her phone!)
Nah, youre not bitter and twisted at all.
Hopefully you feel better for getting it off your chest, if you didnt have me to take the opposing side to draw it all out of you youd still be fuming. Im providing you a good service here lol!!!!
Itd probably drive me mad in the workplace too, particularly if the individual was a general slacker anyway.
I think this is the crux of it really. There will always be those who take anything that's going....sick on Mondays and Fridays and the like. This benefit is ripe for the picking for these types of people too, and the same people, with a lazy attitude anyway, will probably use the bottle/formula and still take the time off! I generally don't let these people bother me too much anymore...it's a pretty negative mentality IMO and their lives outside of work can't be too enjoyable either..let them off.
Sadly, IMO, there are more of these people where poor performance is not addressed by the fear of getting fired and also where top performance is often not rewarded enough either...people in this situation will tend to gravitate toward the middle. I've worked for large banks, semi-states and large companies where I see this happening. There are exceptions but these are in the margins. I haven't (yet) contracted services to any civil service dept so cannot comment on this but I would imagine this would also hold true too.
But surely if it wasnt for the slackers in an organisation then the people with the "can do" attitude wouldnt look so good?
While the slackers will languish on the lowest rung of the ladder the people who work hard, do all the extra hours humanly possible, come in when sick, neglect their families in the pursuit of advancement will rise to the top and get the recognition they deserve. Wont they?
If everyone worked themselves into an early grave how would management recognise those that deserve to be recognised?
I think the slackers (as someone called them) deserve recognition from those who get promotion/bonuses/share options.
By them sacrificing their careers others can rise to the top.
I think the slackers (as someone called them) deserve recognition from those who get promotion/bonuses/share options.
By them sacrificing their careers others can rise to the top.
Take from it what you will - but in my opinion the woman in particular had 10 months to get into a suitable routine for breastfeeding that doesn't involve an hour off each day and doesn't impact co-workers. So yes I do believe she should have tried to be better prepared or strive to be better prepared whatever suits.
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