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Re:Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Bigg... by kurthr on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:14PM (#17325404)
And there's... "hey Joe's got young kids and needs to be 9-5 now, you're single so can't you pick up the slack?" Or "you're not married, can't you be on the pager during Xmas/Turkey-day/weekend". They are two abusive sides of the same coin.
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Re:Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Bigg... by Spooky23 on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:56PM (#17325555)
The abuse is the compulsory, unpaid pager, and the expectation that you’re working 7a-9p. “Joe” with the young kids pushes back because he has to. You’re the sucker saying yes.

The fix for this is easy. You pay for on-call, and have a understood system for assigning it. My brother in law is a fireman... he misses many holidays, but can plan around it because there is such a system.

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Re:Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Bigg... by kurthr on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:45PM (#17325710)
I think you're agreeing with me but, actually it's not clear that Joe pushed back or that "I'm a sucker"... it's that boss Fred has kids too and gives some slack to people like himself.

And the reason your brother-in-law has such a system with paid overtime is a union... which is unlikely to affect IT until AIs organize and demand work-life balance.

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Re:Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Bigg... by jobigoud on Saturday June 16, 2018 @04:45AM (#17326614)
> “Joe” with the young kids pushes back because he has to.

Having children is just a choice of a hobby that takes a lot of time, but in our current culture it's reprehensible for me to say I can't fill in his hours because I have my own hobbies that I want to do instead.

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Re:Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Bigg... by doktrin on Saturday June 16, 2018 @06:13AM (#17326828)
Children are sort of a social necessity, hence carrying more gravitas than conventional hobbies. Obviously "I can't work because I'm cartooning" is gonna be met with more skepticism than "I'm taking care of a sick kid"
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