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That’s the opposite of a village
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
Not at all… I bet the manager would have sacked her if she could.
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. She’s her own village, working and taking care of her kid simultaneously. “It takes a village” would mean someone else watched her kid without question because she needed someone. So this is dumb on a lot of levels.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking too. A village would involve someone helping this woman in some way, not just making her do everything and then taking a picture of it for (presumably) social media clout.
Watch her get fired over this.
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!
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.
Human beings experience a steep drop-off in productivity after ~6hrs, and the worst effect found of switching to a four day work week has been no change but employees are happier, though more often it’s a large increase in productivity and quality.
While yes, that would be something to consider after fixing everything else, your idea is just this post, please do better.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah but not busy restaurant with hot liquids and surfaces and people rushing around and angry customers yelling.
That’s not a village, the village would be someone watching the kid while mom works.
Honestly, the village is everything that was listed here. Including the workplace finding a way to be child friendly. Even a restaurant.
It is currently too hard to have kids, and you can see that less people are doing it because everyone is so insensitive to it.
Not to mention, this post might also cost her Job for breaking policy.
The village would be birth control, abortions and sterilizations being available to anyone who needs them so that 17 year old children aren’t having children in the first place
The village would provide for the mother while she stayed home raising her child…
I’m happily child free but there’s a lot of folks out there who don’t understand why someone like me would choose not to have kids.
It’s because it’s a fucking huge responsibility that apparently falls completely to the mother. Fuck that.
I agree with everything except:
that apparently falls completely to the mother. Fuck that.
I understand why you might say that, but as a single dad who has done 90% of the work while working crazy hectic jobs (and has maybe lost a chunk of sanity to it all), fuck that view. It’s part of the reason I’ve been on an island (metaphorically, I WISH literally) for more than a decade. Everyone telling me I’m doing the right thing, but still treating me as a pariah. Where are the scholarships for single fathers or the programs targeted at us? Do we not count? It’s seen as almost “creepy and weird,” it seems. Fuck. That.
“Oh, let’s do a playdate! Oh, your husband is jealous, too? Okay. Well, fuck me, I guess.”
I’m not sure I understand. Sounds like you are suffering BECAUSE society wants this responsibility to fall completely on the mother. We don’t even have a functional way for you to do that job without confusion and hostility.
Huh. Good point.
her manager let her work <3 <3 <3
awwwwww what truly great person
Let’s be realistic, her manager didn’t have the authority to pay her if she couldn’t make it in and she needed the money.
As fucked as it is, they may have actually been helping to the best of their ability. The ‘manager’ may make $1.50 more per hour.
Her manager let her work
Truly magnanimous
takes photo
That’s not what “It takes a village” means 🙄
That may be true, but you gotta understand something, mate: this post was written by the village idiot.
Not even remotely the correct usage.
Not even remotely the correct village!
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.
Love your username!
Get fucked if you don’t have kids I guess
Lol!! Parents day actually extended to pets, too, and later (about a year or so before I left) also extended to (what is now known as) mental health day.
I retract my saltiness
If you don’t have young kids, you don’t get sick nearly as often. It’s not like having a sick kid at home is a vacation. I don’t begrudge my coworkers their time off for illness or supporting family members with illness.
Thanks for telling me when I’m allowed to get sick. I’m sick of breeders acting like martyrs for deciding to have kids. You knew what your hobby entailed before you chose to participate.
What about meeeee
Yes how dare I value flexible work without having a child
I mean not really if you want someone to operate on your heart you are old or someone to bring your groceries or drive you around etc
What you’re describing is money. I need money for those things.
Orphan crushing machine.
I can’t tell if this is a joke or if someone actually thought this was uplifting.
This is /c/aboringdystopia
No, this is Patrick
