Posted on 12/20/2008 11:58:19 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Butcher, baker, candlestick maker -- all noble professions, indeed. Stay-at-home Mom? Well, get a real job. At least, that's what one Australian mom was told when she went to buy a cell phone. Lyndal Fair, a thirty-six-year-old mother of three, wanted to purchase a mobile phone, presumably to keep track of her brood, to call their schools and doctors and to be available in an emergency. Not good enough, said Vodafone -- they don't sell phones to moms.
In fact, the store employees suggested she get her husband to purchase the phone under his name for her. Sound familiar? "I couldn't believe it. It was like being back in the '50s," said Mrs. Fair. "Being a mum is a full-time job and it's a very hard job - the hardest job you can have - because if you get it wrong, the ramifications for everyone are enormous," she added.
A Vodafone spokesman confirmed that the policy does not belong to just one rogue store but to the company as a whole, adding that getting a man to purchase the phone was the easiest solution. The policy is not meant to target moms alone, but anyone the company feels may not be able to afford a phone. "It's not an ideal situation. We're trying to fix it," said Greg Spears, the company spokesman.
I would definitely say this is something the company ought to address. If you ask me, however, the quickest solution is not to have a man buy the phone but to just put down something like "Moms against Vodafone" as the company name.
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Should motherhood count as a job?
No - They drop the kids off at school and goof off the rest of the day
If you don't get paid, it's not a job
It's the company's right to decide who they want to do business with
It shouldn't matter how you make a living, just whether or not you can afford the phone
Motherhood is more work than any other job -- and more important too!
Something sounds fishy here.
She could have bought a pre-paid package phone off the rack.
Then you get zero credit. You personally haven't the means to pay the bill.
If you deny me getting this, you are a bigot.
No, I'm conducting business.
Would you extend a loan to an unemployed person?
You mean that is NOT required? Boy, me and that cute little real estate agent are going to have some words!
If she’s a single mother with no paying job that’s one thing.
If she’s a mother with a husband that has a paying job it should be the family income that matters, not whether she has a “job” or not.
I’d do business somewhere else if it is the latter.
So lets see...
You wouldn’t conduct “business” with Mrs. Trump because she has “no job”...
Hmmm...
Oh, perhaps there are other factors to consider...
Who in the hell are these pinheads to tell anyone that has the price of the phone that he or she or it can't have one? In the next place, I learned long ago not to send anyone away who wanted to leave money with me.
What the hell is vodaphone that they are so precious? And how long does it take for them to "try" to fix it??? Drop the stupid damned policy. Yesterday.
I was not able to be on the mortgage because I did not have an outside job.
Saying so makes you someone who is appreciative of his other half. More ought to be so. Men and women.
My wife was in a grocery store this morning. A delivery man was knelt down arranging his delivery on a shelf. He apologized for being in my wife's way. She said to him, "You're fine." He looked up at her and said, "I wish my wife would say that to me."
That's a very 19th-century attitude with which I agree completely.
Nope.
No income, no credit.
Do you think that whoring off of someone else's credit is a valid lifestyle?
I figure that makes one a whore or a bum, take your pick.
Uh.. they are the pinheads who OWN the phones, Zippy.
That gives them the right to call the shots.
Nope.
No income, no credit.
Do you think that whoring off of someone else’s credit is a valid lifestyle?
I figure that makes one a whore or a bum, take your pick.
What about those little leachers who just want to go to kindergarten? Whats your policy on those freeloaders?
Well my income is my wife’s income. We are one. You know, that married thing...
You can run you business anyway you want, even foolishly...
“What about those little leachers who just want to go to kindergarten?”What’s that got to do with a phone.
I don’t think any kid should have a phone unless they have a job and can qualify and pay for it themselves.
So you think extending credit to unemployed people is a good idea?
Brilliant. Everyone has a family. That does not equal ability to pay bills.
I would use the term homemaker.
So she sits around and sponges off of you? Wow.
Does she not have any skills? Unemployable?
You can run you business anyway you want, even foolishly...
Yeah, it's foolish to extend credit only to those who can pay.
Enjoy providing a free ride to the lazy & worthless.
We have children, she home schools them, keeps the house, washes cloths, cooks meals, and virtually endless other things...
Hardly “sponging” off of me. This may be a strange concept to you but we work as a team to achieve our goals in life. We are more than the sum of our parts.
In most states the debts of one spouse are equally the responsibility of the other. So the ability to “pay” is a function of both, not either individual.
All well and good.
It does not, however, entitle her to her own credit rating.
Suppose I authorized her a line of credit for a cell phone plan .
Tomorrow, you kick her out on the street. No skills, no job.
What then is my recourse in collecting the bill?
No paying job, no credit. Welcome to reality.
Or "unemployed".
No job, no credit. Step to the side and let a productive person apply.
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