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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
At the end of the day, you are judged by your work. If you are a parent struggling to get all your work done because you have kids, then that will go into your evaluation. I will more likely promote the guy without kids going the extra mile to cover for the guy with kids. Hey, the guy with the kids should thank me for that. I'm just looking out for his busy time table afterall. It's obvious he can't handle the extra workload a promotion would entail.
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I agree with you.
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Originally Posted by Regorium
I don't think anyone thinks that parenting isn't time consuming. You'll also get a ton of kid-related emergencies.
What irks me is that you think this translates into the workplace.
For example, two people are up for a promotion:
Worker A is single, and put in 10 hours a day producing quality work.
Worker B has a kid, but only managed to put in 8 hours a day producing quality work due to various kid-related emergencies and parenting duties.
What I feel you are implying from your arguments is that Worker B is equally qualified for a promotion as worker A, because worker A SHOULD be working more hours than worker B due to the fact that he's single, and isn't burdened with noble parenting duty.
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I didn't mean to imply that at all. The guy who is better for the company, works harder and picks up his coworkers' slack should absolutely get the promotion over the parent.