So one of the women in my office felt it was appropriate to bring her 8 or 9 year old daughter to work with her.

As if this isn't bad enough, she then leaves for periods at a time, and leaves the daughter sitting in the office, without saying a word, as if to imply that we, her co-workers, are expected to babysit her child.

Now, school has just come back into session, which means that this girl, who shouldn't be here to begin with, has homework to do.  So now, as if I don't dislike my job enough, I've got to do it while I hear this girl read aloud.

Is it me, or has the workplace become a daycare center?  I understand that women want to work, and I understand that you want to be treated equally.  (I single out women in this instance only because the woman in question is a single mother.) 

However, if you can not find someone to take care of your child, don't expect me to do it for you.  It's not my child, and it's not my responsibility to watch after her when you can not do so yourself.

Let's just imagine for a moment that there's a fire, or even a fire alarm.  God forbid something happen to your child.  But what if it does?  Whose responsibility was it to ensure that this child is safely evacuated from the building, because you ditched her here while you went to another office in the building?  I'm certainly not going to look after her, because I've got enough stuff that I'm required to do in that scenario.

Folks, don't bring your kids to work.  They don't belong there anymore than your dog does.

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Foz. How exactly does AOL come into this?
The last I heard you're with Freeserve. ???

I know AOL can be blamed for a lot of things but the mail comes through their own browser. This automatically intercepts a lot of this stuff which should reduce the amount of spam. I haven't used Outlook Express for years.

At least with AOL I can delete any mail I don't recognise without even reading it. As I remember, this is not possible with OE.

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Yes, your "Freeserve" browser is actually M$ Internet Explorer & your mail program is M$ Outlook Express so if anybody is to blame it's Mr Gates. The AOL browser is completely different. It's based on Netscape Navigator & works as both mail program & browser. I find it useless for browsing & use it for e-mail only. I fire up IE6 for that purpose. Complicated ain't it? LOL

PS. This charming invitation came in while I was typing my reply. All I need to do is click the delete button to dump it without even opening it.

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Not bragging but I've never been worried in that department. 8)
Wouldn't make any difference if I was. People are so gullible & never seem satisfied with what they've got these days. LOL

But none of this addresses your rant mate.  Try telling her what you think and see what happens...  With today's effed up society you'll probably end up needing a lawyer if you do tho'.

Will.

Ps I agree with you AGAIN, jeez........

I have a four year old and I agree with most of your post Ottol.  I don't however bring her into work with me.  If my colleagues brought their children into work with them and there was an expectation for me to watch them I would complain and because of that I agree with Hyperion.

Many parents feel that their lifestyle choice means that the rest of society somehow owes them something.  My work place is plagued by women who think that their status as mothers means they have a right to seven weeks paid leave in the summer and all the weekends and night duties off.  This leaves me and the single girls working three weekends out of four, 6-8 nightshifts a month and I haven't been able to get a week off since february.

The system is crap and if no one stands up and says that somethings are just going too far there will be no end of it.
ie:

"Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking, we are currently in a holding pattern over New York because the ATC are all busy feeding their kids and I'm changing my daughters nappy(diaper).  When we can all be bothered to concentrate on our jobs I'll get around to landing this thing......"

Will

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Hi Fozzer,

I would highly recomend getting a new e-mail address, or alias if it's the case, and stop subscribing to all those porn sites