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Originally Posted by Geraldsh
Maternity leave can be up to a year? This is not just a couple weeks of giving up your free time; be prepared to be challenged and do your best no matter how it rolls out. Win or lose you always feel better if you played your best.
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Maternity leave can be in excess of 18 months via the government mandated 18 months plus several months of short term disability if there are pregnancy complications (ie: preeclampsia).
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Originally Posted by Sliver
It's not all about attitude. You can't attitude your way out of an unreasonable work/life balance and you can't attitude your way out of unfair compensation.
In this post it sounds like you had a good job since you had so much fun. Most jobs are so much work, especially when you propose taking on more work to add to your work because work is its own reward. Barf.
I'm trying to guide my kids into careers where they don't have to work as hard as your average chump. We talk about being a teacher a lot in my house and my daughter even has a little fake class she teaches in her room complete with a whiteboard, lesson plans, etc. I'd kill to see them having summers off, winter vacation off, spring break off, only having to be at their job six or seven hours a day (I realize there is marking on some nights, but every job will have that bit extra that needs doing), and then retiring early with a bulletproof pension and insane benefits.
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Agreed. But let's not over berate a good working man attitude.
Attitude can only go so far and now there's so much weird social flexing that is also required as part of the political games and gymnastics that is prevalent in so many work places. People will not automatically sing your praises for you. You must either find someone who will sing them on your behalf, or get others to notice you so that you get the appropriate recognition.
Hard workers with their head down get turfed for stupid reasons like, not a team player, kinda an awkward person, didn't know anything of what they were doing, barely even saw them around the break room etc. That's definitely a shift from before. It's sadly a lot about how visible you are these days.
Then it's not about results but hard work image. Perhaps call it attitude of others to you. Someone can sell their soul to the company and do 16 hour days to finish the work because this person is an idiot who spends more time spinning their wheels on futility, and that person is considered hard working. This vs the "lazy" but competent person who finishes the same work in 6 hours and goes home on time. It's stupid.