Woman Claims She Deserves Maternity Leave Even Though She Has No Kids

[Surfd]

So she has discovered a moronically fancy way to say "I want a vacation / sabbatical"? Grats, I guess.

[Katie N]

Mothers have no me time until kids are like 15 or so. Maternity leave is thing to make living with those lil brats tolerable.

Yes we do if you plan.

[Deleted]

What the fuck is this shit, your Me-Time is your VACATION just like everyone else!
Fucking women and their stupid as fuck idea's these days, holy shit.
Lets take 1.5 years out of the workforce because I need to remind my self that I force my self to stay later.
What the fuck.

[Deleted]

All people sometime need a break to sort out their lives. But isn't that basically what vacation is?

It is, yeah.

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What the fuck is this shit, your Me-Time is your VACATION just like everyone else!
Fucking women and their stupid as fuck idea's these days, holy shit.
What the fuck.

Calm down. Way to overreact.

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It is, yeah.

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Calm down. Way to overreact.

Calm down. Way to overreact.

[Azadina]

Calm down. Way to overreact.

She seems rather calm compared to you

[Rend Blackhand]

Lazy boot can't be arsed to work. Are your holidays not enough?

[Deleted]

It looks like she needs less free time to spend eating.

I'm sure you're the picture of good health yourself...

[Gestopft]

If you want time away from work, it's called "vacation."

And if you think that maternity leave is anything like "vacation" or "me time" then you don't know anything about having kids.

[Hammerfest]

Maternity leave is not "me time" as the author claims. It's "baby time." You don't get a lot of "me time" while on maternity leave.

[Deleted]

Calm down. Way to overreact.

I don't deem it necessary to throw obscenities around whenever I don't think something is reasonable.
The vast majority here seems to agree that what she is asking for is unreasonable. Most people, however, manage to not immediately get super angry over it.

[Tomservo]

Yup, she deserves equal pay.

[Dextroden]

I don't deem it necessary to throw obscenities around whenever I don't think something is reasonable.
The vast majority here seems to agree that what she is asking for is unreasonable. Most people, however, manage to not immediately get super angry over it.

Meh. I'd call her plenty stupid for promoting the idea that leaving early to pick up your child from school and leaving early to console your forever alone friend are comparable. That, and for thinking about how she deserves the same as the people balancing work and family.

[Azadina]

Meh. I'd call her plenty stupid for promoting the idea that leaving early to pick up your child from school and leaving early to console your forever alone friend are comparable. That, and for thinking about how she deserves the same as the people balancing work and family.

Here's the difference between calling her stupid, and between what he said:

What the fuck is this shit, your Me-Time is your VACATION just like everyone else!
Fucking women and their stupid as fuck idea's these days, holy shit.
Lets take 1.5 years out of the workforce because I need to remind my self that I force my self to stay later.
What the fuck.

I somehow seem to manage not calling all men savage rapists when one of them does that. This guy however, couldn't make such distinctions.

[Hammerfest]

She has the same opportunity to take maternity leave as a woman co-worker who has had a baby when she actually has a baby. She wants the time off without doing what it takes to actually get it.

[Kourvith]

She got a point in a way. not on the maternity leave, but on being expected to do more hours than people with kids. Actually that's a punchline I tell to my managers when I'm expected for no reason to do more hours : « Sorry, I have kids, house, you know, I must go. » Indeed they know I don't have kids, but what can you tell ?

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The author strikes me as the type of woman to have a child as an accessory.

She strikes me as the type that no man wants to impregnate tbh

Guess at 38 she realized this too and decided to try to get the days of anyways.

[Hammerfest]

She got a point in a way. not on the maternity leave, but on being expected to do more hours than people with kids.

She hasn't got a point. At least not a valid one.

[Deleted]

Well its Ultimately unfair that the state mandates other people subsidize some people's personal self fulfilment project.
Whether that is taking 6 months to binge netflix or have a kid is immaterial too me.

[Kourvith]

She hasn't got a point. At least not a valid one.

how so ? Do you feel it's normal to do overwork when you don't have any "social" excuse ?