[QUOTE=missdpuck;2657515]At my work people with kids are usually given priority.
We would all love to come to work earlier but despite petitioning we have an 8-4:30 schedule and you'd have to have a dire emergency to deviate from that. If you want to come in at 8:30 though it's okay.
One woman is allowed to come at 7 because of her kid. I'm glad they accomodate her. But if childless Joe wants to come in at 7:30 so he can make it to class on time after work he can forget about it.
Even though the leave schedule is full, Sally can take off Saturday for her
kid's dance recital, but Alice can't get off to do her art show, which is something obviously important to her. That's the only thing that aggravates me about it. I'm all for reasonable flextime for everyone, but make it fair.
And with the way the school bus drivers are around here I'd have an awful time putting my kid on the bus! Waaaaaaah.
It just makes me cringe.
That is just like when I used to work in the restaraunt biz.
People that smoked would take about 10 smoke breaks a shift at 10 minutes each while you watched their section. But if I sat down in the back for 5 minutes it was like "what are you doing?"