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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (25204)	1/6/2005 9:21:18 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Laz, you have hit one of my workplace hot buttons, that being mommies in the workplace--not all mommies, just those mommies who think the company business comes in a distant second to their families. Gracious, but I had years upon years of nonsense from that latter bunch of mommies and the stuff they could pull. I could rant on and on and on on this. But to keep it short and sweet: My favorite was when they wanted holidays off and expected me to work in their places. I was always told, "But they have families." What? I don't have family? You think I was hatched? The stork brought me? Gimme a break! Then there were all the times when the kiddies were sick or the babysitter didn't show up or, worst of all, they'd bring the little darlings to work with them. A couple of mommies come to mind who, over a period of years, remained perpetually pregnant for the maternity leave benefit. I kid you not! I remember a very special case from back in the middle to late 1970s when a female fireperson, newly anointed, and one of the first of her sex to break into that profession, insisted on bringing her newborn to work--TO THE FIREHOUSE, FOR GAWD'S SAKE--so she could breast-feed it. The fire chief, a reasonable person, gave her a resoundingly unequivocal "NO." After all, among other pitfalls inherent in her proposed course of action, who was going to watch the infant if she were called to a fire? That basic fact seemed beyond her understanding. The case went to the courts. I immediately despised that woman for throwing away what she had achieved against all odds and who was now making it difficult to impossible for any other woman to enter this heretofore male-dominated career. Of course, times have changed. Female fire and police personnel now even have maternity uniforms available--and wear them. But those were my thoughts at the time. - Holly