17, working and has a child?! π
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People are so brainwashed for thinking this is heartwarming and not incredibly fucked.
it takes a village to raise a child...
it takes a Corporation to exploit a family for their personal gain.
I've seen this personally here in Georgia, and I mean more than once.
We live in the wealthiest nation on the planet in a technologically advanced civilization.
Everyone needs to understand things are only still this absurd because we allow a small percentage of people to live better than any kings from the past ever lived off the backs of the rest of us. Hording the vast majority of our wealth.
We absolutely have the means to prevent people from having to take their kids to fucking work with them but we choose to let billionaires do things like dismantle our government and destroy our international relations instead.
Everyone needs to understand things are only still this absurd because we allow a small percentage of people to live better than any kings from the past ever lived off the backs of the rest of us. Hording the vast majority of our wealth.
We absolutely have the means to prevent people from having to take their kids to fucking work with them but we choose to let billionaires do things like dismantle our government and destroy our international relations instead.
This ain't no village
What a beautiful world
babies having babies π
I like that "it takes a village" means bringing your child to work, and not having the support to either have someone/some facility watch your child if you chose to work, or having actual paternity leave. Nor does it mean being paid enough that if you had to just not work, you and yours wouldn't be in the street.
How inspiring.
Orphan crushing machineβ¦
I'm guessing they didn't want to pay an agency worker more to cover her shift.
does anyone actually see this and think it's heartwarming???
This gives me the same vibe as all those "feelgood" stories about communities coming together to pay for some valued member's back surgery or cancer treatment or something.
It's nice people do that, but what about people that are less liked, and how is it that we have so much wealth going around, and yet extremely basic things like healthcare are still factors people need to concern themselves with being able to afford?
Nope
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That's the opposite of a village
Capitalism equals a miserable life for most people, we should free ourselves.
but for many (and we know who) your misery cancels out THEIR misery.
as long has YOU are suffering more than they.....They win. which is why "Owning the Libs" is to them desirable. and a sufficient reason for self harming behavior.
it is an insane point of view....but there you go.
Uhhh... looks at her age
UHHHHHHHH
Capitalism Baby Capitalism. Nazi can have every luxury but a single mom food? How Dare you
The manager was generous enough to let her carry her child while working, but not generous enough to pay her enough to get childcare, or provide it themselves?
It reminds me a bit of the story of a mother going in for a job interview, and shortly after, being arrested for child negligence/endangerment, because she'd left her child unattended (in the same area) while attending said interview. This situation feels like it's setting up for that kind of thing.
I mean, it's McDonald's. The manager doesn't have the ability to pay her a living wage. The manager is a wage slave as well, or even worse on salary while having to cover so many shifts they're barely averaging minimum wage themselves.
No, the person you're mad at is the franchise owner.
And, depending on the store, the franchise owner could be barely breaking even despite paying employees so poorly.
Restaurants, and especially Fast food, is a very low margin industry unless the stores are churning through a significant number of orders consistently throughout the day.
Source: managed a fast food store for a couple years that, after all costs, barely broke even most months of the year.
iT rEaLlY dOes TaKE a ViLLagE
That village failed.
The thing is, this is a situation where there was no village. Sheβs her own village, working and taking care of her kid simultaneously. βIt takes a villageβ would mean someone else watched her kid without question because she needed someone. So this is dumb on a lot of levels.
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That's not what "It takes a village" means π
That may be true, but you gotta understand something, mate: this post was written by the village idiot.
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Thatβs not a village, the village would be someone watching the kid while mom works.
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Watch her get fired over this.
One time, one of my coworkers showed up to work with his kid, because the babysitter called in sick. My manager, without skipping a beat, told him to go home and be the best dad he possibly could, then, not only did she not use his sick time for this day, she made it a department policy to allow unlimited* "parent days". One of the best managers I've ever had.
' * Fine print was basically, don't abuse it, but use it when you need it.
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Amidst all the outrage, I'd like to say I'm really in favour of having workplaces child friendly where possible. More time of letting the children spend time with mum or dad, rather than going to corporate childcare.
If any of you are planning an office layout today, make a playroom!
I really don't want to have to play nice to my colleagues children more than I have to. No offence, but I don't work to hang around with kids.
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I'm of the opposite opinion. Maxing out spending time with mom and dad means less healthy social interactions and growth for your child. I want them to have a separation where they have a teacher, a class and friends, and not feel they can run to me or are distracted by me.
The children I've seen who were raised at home are miles behind our child in terms if development.
Bringing a child to work seems worse - they can't play with toys or engage in what they want at all anymore. They'd be subjected fk whatever the mom and dad have to do. They also have no friends or structured learning.
The daycares we've used have been fantastic and care a lot about teaching our child in many ways they wouldn't otherwise have.
Hm. I think you need a balance. And not about getting less mum and dad time, but that you do get play time with other children. Already we have schools struggling because children aren't developed enough at home. Deeper than that is whether children grow up with a strong bond to their parents, or, in a deep and often inexpressible way, feel abandoned. I'd rather a child be less classroom-developed in early years than feel unloved.
Bringing a child to work seems worse - they can't play with toys or engage in what they want at all anymore.
Luckily, toys are portable. A good child-friendly workplace would have space for toy-playing I think!
Thanks for sharing your perspective, though. I appreciate seeing different experiences of parents.
Exactly this. Teachers can basically spot the kids who didn't go to pre-school or day care before kindergarten and spend most of their days with one of their parents. A good daycare will basically help give your kids a head start in their development.
But how much, I wonder, are the kids really more developed - and how much are they more developed at classroom life. Also I wonder if there's some other correlated factors involved - if the children who stayed home are also more commonly in unstable families, since only high-income families can afford kindergarten, and high-income families tend to have different sorts of issues, and and more (at least superficially) stability.
My old workplace (rip, got a acquired and the new company ran it to shit) was down the street from a daycare. It had discount plans for the daycare. During lunch/breaks, some of my co-workers would spend time with their kids.
I thought it was a good best of both worlds. Still have the separation, but still get to spend time with your kids.
Yeah but not busy restaurant with hot liquids and surfaces and people rushing around and angry customers yelling.
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Yeah. For single parents and such maybe. But mostly I want to get back to where you can just live off of one FT income so this whole problem doesn't exist.
Being able to live off one income would be good, though you have to fix the problem where people de-value childcare over paid employment, so the partner staying home doesn't feel 'lesser' from it and dominated by the other. Especially in early months it's better the mum stays with the baby (direct breast feeding is still healthier than expressing milk to feed later), and I think many women still feel that staying home to look after infants is demeaning compared to working a job. We still have some way to go on that!
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