Posted by
Dave Kooker on Monday, April 14, 2008 11:00:00 AM
As with any benefit of good intention, if it creates inequality to others, it will absolutely be abused. This even includes the corporate for-profit world. Companies like to foster a ‘Family Friendly’ environment for those who have children. The problem is for those employees who do not have children or children not on their residence (custody); the unexecuted work from those with children must be made up by these groups. It is abused by both sexes but the women in the workforce abuse the family privilege about 95 percent of the time. Especially when the individual is salaried.
Women love to stress how they are for equality in the workforce to include responsibility and pay grade but, when children are involved watch how fast they like to bring ‘Family’ excuses of how they must but released for deadlines, projects, and actual fulltime work hours. There is not a day that goes by where several ladies in the office must leave work early due to:
· School let the children out early today
· Must participate in child’s field trip
· Child is sick, injured, has doctors’ appointment
· Pet is sick, got loose, run over by a car (by the way, how my lives does that pet have anyway?)
The excuses are endless. Because of this abuse, I absolutely believe that woman with children who is salaried should earn less money than a woman without children. The nicer the weather, higher chances of probability someone needs to be rescued at home. I would also suspect that store sales could be factored into that equation. As a result, those without direct responsibility to children are requested/required to pickup the un-executed work. With 100 percent certainly, the one who has escaped the work never reciprocates the favor or makes up the work at a later date.
This also applies to religious and Federal holidays. Without children, you can guarantee that you will be selected to be on the holiday on-call roster or be asked to participate for those holiday special work projects. Yeah, I really did not want to smoke cigars and have a sniff of tawny port at that anticipated Christmas party. I have no personal life. I would rather be at work and have some Chinese restaurant delivered mystery meat lomien to me. Us single and divorced people have needs too. I would rather be chasing some attractive lady around the house in her Victoria Secrets on my time off.
I figure in 2 or 3 years I should be able to branch off completely from Corporate America and operate my own property management and/or historic structure restoration enterprise which will pay for my peanut butter & Jelly sandwiches and my child support payments. I would never hire anyone on salary. I think salaries kills initiative. Make everyone non-exempt W-2. Pay will be directly based on amount of work or hours performed. If you want to work on holidays, earn more money. Want to be the family caretaker fine, just be paid for the hours that you work. I bet very quickly all those family emergencies will disappear very quickly.
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