Some people really don't get this. We have a woman who routinely starts between 9.30 and 10. When we all get up to leave at 4/4.30 she starts with the part timer comments. She can't grasp thay when she walks in at 9.30 we have already been at work for at least an hour and a half! We don't make part timer comments or say "good afternoon" when she strolls in but thinks she's hard done by when we leave earlier than her.Hardly a part timer if you’re doing the same hours
It’s stupid isn’t it!! Every time she does I’d just have to make the comment “well I started earlier than you so?”Some people really don't get this. We have a woman who routinely starts between 9.30 and 10. When we all get up to leave at 4/4.30 she starts with the part timer comments. She can't grasp thay when she walks in at 9.30 we have already been at work for at least an hour and a half! We don't make part timer comments or say "good afternoon" when she strolls in but thinks she's hard done by when we leave earlier than her.
I don't think they can do mathHardly a part timer if you’re doing the same hours
Bitter peopleI don't think they can do math
Yeah on the days I start at 4.30am I go home when they all go for lunch and they're like "half day again" and I'm like nah mate done my 8 hours so I'm going shopping now lol.
I have a steam mop! Way better for my floors too!Im at work and looking at steam mops .. riveting I know.. someone just commented but youv time to mop normallyI do but I don't want to
Same, I've always been a start early finish early type. I wake up early naturally and I have had comments from parents before along the lines of 'why were you up so early when you didn't need to be'!I'm the opposite, I love going into work super early so I can get out and do what I want with the rest of my day. Then I get "part-timer" comments from the jealous parents, they can't roll in until 9 because of daycare so have to stay until 5.
The thing that gave birth to me is the reason I will never have kids. Not even sure the dirty tramp can be called a female let alone mother. She is a vile narcasict who has no business being a mother and I will never ever put a child through that as how am I supposed to be a mother to a child when I have no idea what a mother child relationship is supposed to be like. The saying every child deserves a mother but not every mother deserves a child should be more well known, it’s relevant in thousands of kids lives.My husband and I always assumed we’d have children. They were just in our future plan. We’re 13 years in and so far no children, but when we first got together we were only 19, so we always said if one of us says no to having children then that’s the decision made the other person has to accept that. I guess if you have an underlying desperation to have a baby that might change things but that agreement is still in place today.
I loved the Greg James article. The bit about you need to be so certain if you want to have a child. I have felt a very minor broody trembling over the last few months and I mean it is a fleeting thought every once in a while and at no point, have I seriously considered having a child. I think people need to do that thing they used to do in the US where you’d be given a fake baby because I think the reality is so different and while, yes some women do absolutely take to it.
One of my closest friends who we were kind of friends, because neither of us wanted children had a baby last year and she is the most wonderful mother. She loves every element of being a mother and I am so happy for her, but I think there are so many women including my own mother who are not 100% into being a parent.
“parents: not everything is about you” needs to be the next thread titleUh oh, the parents have found that Greg James articlesaw someone on Insta who already has two kids saying she totally understands where he's coming from because people are always asking when she's going to have another kid...?!
Stop trying to make everything about parents! It's not about you! Someone with two kids simply does not get questioned or treated the same way as a woman without kids.
Because being a parent is their whole world, personally and life. How dare they be excluded!“parents: not everything is about you” needs to be the next thread title
i noticed that too in his insta comments, like he wrote an honest and frank article about why he doesn’t want kids, doesn’t think they would fit into his life, would mean he would have to give up things he enjoys….. and there are parents commenting like “yes know exactly where you’re coming from! people ask me when i’m going to have my seventh child all the time!”
why do parents want so desperately to be included in everything?! it’s like if we all went and joined a mother and baby group.
Putting this forward officially courtesy of you and @Platformcrocs in case it gets lost in comments -“parents: not everything is about you” needs to be the next thread title
I spend the spare money I have from not having kids on having cleanersI have a steam mop! Way better for my floors too!
Not having kids frees up a lot of time, why should we spend that free time doing manual labour?
How ridiculous! If you can afford a clean and you want a cleaner, then you get a cleaner! What’s having kids got to do with it?I spend the spare money I have from not having kids on having cleanersreminds me of a very weird conversation my partner had with MIL (who we are no longer in contact with) about how we shouldn’t need cleaners, I was just ‘lazy’ (not him - note we do the same busy job…) and when he pointed out that another woman in his family has cleaners and his Mum never thought that was an issue, MIL replied ‘well (other woman) has kids so she needs cleaners’ 🫠🫠🫠 apparently you only deserve cleaners if you have kids otherwise you’re lazy! Sod that, my house, my money.
(Heads up: no kids in this anecdote)I spend the spare money I have from not having kids on having cleanersreminds me of a very weird conversation my partner had with MIL (who we are no longer in contact with) about how we shouldn’t need cleaners, I was just ‘lazy’ (not him - note we do the same busy job…) and when he pointed out that another woman in his family has cleaners and his Mum never thought that was an issue, MIL replied ‘well (other woman) has kids so she needs cleaners’ 🫠🫠🫠 apparently you only deserve cleaners if you have kids otherwise you’re lazy! Sod that, my house, my money.
We got a cleaner last year and it was such a great decision. She comes every Friday afternoon and is fab, money very well spent to wake up on Saturday morning not having to go to work and the house is clean and tidy. Get the cleaner, enjoy your free timeHow ridiculous! If you can afford a clean and you want a cleaner, then you get a cleaner! What’s having kids got to do with it?
We’ve debated before about getting a cleaner because we both work long days and we can’t be bothered spending the weekends cleaning!
Congrats!!Just nabbed myself a promotion because the person two levels above me at work is pregnantThankfully I was away when the whole showing off the scan photo was happening
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