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Originally Posted by Sliver
I just wonder what charmed lives you guys are leading or why posters that know of the difficulties I'm talking about are being so silent. One of my best friends right now is going through something brutal. His wife injured her arm severely and they have a nine month old baby. She can't lift the baby or use her arm at all without risking further and permanent damage. My friend has had to take a month off work to keep his house running and his baby cared for. Is this stuff not happening in your guys' world of the land of easy babies?
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I have 3 kids under 5, and have recently added 2 kids in their teen years (long story), both of which have some pretty severe behavioral/emotional issues. I spend pretty much every evening either dealing with homework, appointments, etc or dealing with the household chaos that results from my wife spending all day doing the same thing. School recently finished for the older ones, so we have a bit of a break on that front for now.
I know how hard it is, but I don't expect my boss/company to give me any more leniency than is given to anyone else. If I take time off, it comes from my vacation time, or is made up as flex time. Of course, I also have a job where if something happens, I can walk across the hall and tell my boss I need to leave in 5 mins for (an hour/day/week) and 99% of the time he would say no problem.
If I didn't have that job, or the flexibility it provides, I might be one of the people that the OP is complaining about, but I made the choice to stay where I was for that flexibility, because it is important to me to have it right now. With that benefit, I am not earning as much money as I would in pretty much every other company in the city, so it isn't free.