Posted on 09/05/2020 12:07:57 PM PDT by Theoria
Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don’t have children.
When the coronavirus closed schools and child care centers and turned American parenthood into a multitasking nightmare, many tech companies rushed to help their employees. They used their comfortable profit margins to extend workers new benefits, including extra time off for parents to help them care for their children.
It wasn’t long before employees without children started to ask: What about us?
At a recent companywide meeting, Facebook employees repeatedly argued that work policies created in response to Covid-19 “have primarily benefited parents.” At Twitter, a fight erupted on an internal message board after a worker who didn’t have children at home accused another employee, who was taking a leave to care for a child, of not pulling his weight.
When Salesforce announced that it was offering parents six weeks of paid time off, most employees applauded. But one Salesforce manager, who is not permitted to talk publicly about internal matters and therefore asked not to be identified, said two childless employees, reflecting a sentiment voiced at several companies, complained that the policy seemed to put parents’ needs ahead of theirs.
As companies wrestle with how best to support staff during the pandemic, some employees without children say that they feel underappreciated, and that they are being asked to shoulder a heavier workload.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Aha! Found a good wedge issue to divide people! Now let’s push it to create dissatisfaction. Then we can blame it on Trump!
And the parents would get upset about having to deal with their own children. Isn’t that what schools and juvenile courts are for?
If parents had to spend more time dealing with their own children, they would generally raise them to be more polite and pleasant to be around. This would make them better and more pleasant colleagues and employees once they enter the workplace too.
As a young single officer in the Navy, I shared this resentment [housing, duty on Christmas, New Year, etc., etc.] and then I grew up. Children are the future of our civilization and they need parents [as current demographic issues demonstrate]. And parenting requires a lot of extra work, cost, etc. That Corvette you could afford when you were single goes to the college tuition kitty, etc.
Ya, but it’s an awful lot of work! /s
It wasn’t long before employees without children started to ask: What about us?
Facebook, was very sensitive to those concerns and assured them that those, “Workers with children”, would be required to take classes on “Critical Race Theory”. They went further to alleviate their other concerns and have instituted a mandatory program for “Workers with Children” on how and why they should “Eat their Kids” to save the planet.
That has to be illegal. What a scam. The childless folks should sue the company. My wife and I raised 4 kids and would be embarrassed by this. It’s bad enough we get huge financial breaks from the government.
As a single young SWO on ships, we didn’t have this issue. Everybody suffered equally because that community eats its own.
There was more pay for having a dependent, even though you did the same job as someone without one.
Bravo, napscoordinator—great post!
If both parents were not working, it wouldn’t be an issue.
People need to stop living above their means.
“the policy seemed to put parents’ needs ahead of theirs.”
If the employer offered 6 paid weeks to work with children - say, volunteering at a pediatric ward - I wonder how many of these whiners would take it.
An idle, easy and wrong assertion. Adults are the future. Children are a hinderance.
Nonsense - adults are decades closer to death.
Not my circus or monkeys.
If we did not force mothers out of the home this would not be an issue.
Productivity builds the future not longevity. Scoot.
I’m childless and I don’t begrudge this new policy. God forbid parents actually make their own children a priority.
Free clue: children become adults.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.