A recent Time blog asked whether the American workplace was hostile to singles. The blog gave all kind of data to show that the number of singles have risen in the workplace but benefits for them are non-existent.
I' am telling these childless singles to stop their bitching and save the drama for their momma. It's not anyone's fault no one want to marry them and have kids with them. I know that two third of singles would marry in an instant if marriage came with guarantees. Their fear of failure is so strong that they don't want to get married and risk it.
Do workers with families get benefits at work? Of course they do, but they also lose a lot as well. When the boss give the single workers more work he is giving them a vote of confidence. He is telling them that he trusts that they can get it done and put in the hours. Mothers in the workplace don't get the best projects, don't rise as fast through the company as singles. All that traveling for the company means that singles get noticed more.
Anyone who thinks that it's not fair to singles that people with families get "so much" time off, and get to leave early and come to work a bit late, only have to look to Japan to see what happens when companies don't offer flexibility to parents in the workplace. Married workers don't want to have children and risk their careers. And that means that all the single people, if they "choose" to remain single, will have a heck of time in their retirement age of getting government help to pay for their health care costs, and other services. A functional government needs enough young adults paying taxes to cover their budgets.
When parents go home early to take care of their kids, they are doing single people a favor. Companies that give "benefits" to workers with families are giving singles and the economy a boost. If they don't give those "benefits," women would be less inclined to have kids, and then the goverment would have to start paying them to have children. To pay women to have kids mean that they would have to raise taxes on single workers to help pay for the program. Singles have to decide whether they want to work longer hours, or give a bigger chunk of their paycheck to the government.
Working parents need time off to raise their kids because kids don't raise themselves. We need these children to become responsible adults and contribute to society. I say give parents more time off and more benefits so they can do a good job at it. All these complaining singles in the workplace should just hurry up and find their "soulwhatever" so they too can have families. They would be able to get these "benefits" that working parents get and they resent so much. They would get to go home to crying infants, house shores, and stressed out weekends. And like their married counterparts, there will be days when they will long for these long hours at work, alone, with dimmed light, eating Chinese.
Furthermore, single workers have choices that are not available to workers with families. Singles can just leave their jobs if they don't like the hours, the amount of work that is being giving to them or to go on a sabbatical in the Andes. People with families have to just stick it out.
Below is a visual representation of what happens to a country where companies don't give benefits to working parents. Enjoy!
"What causes this workplace unease to boil over? Childless singles feel put upon, taken for granted and exploited—whether because of fewer benefits, less compensation, longer hours, mandatory overtime, or less flexible schedules or leaves—by married and child-rearing co-workers."
I' am telling these childless singles to stop their bitching and save the drama for their momma. It's not anyone's fault no one want to marry them and have kids with them. I know that two third of singles would marry in an instant if marriage came with guarantees. Their fear of failure is so strong that they don't want to get married and risk it.
Do workers with families get benefits at work? Of course they do, but they also lose a lot as well. When the boss give the single workers more work he is giving them a vote of confidence. He is telling them that he trusts that they can get it done and put in the hours. Mothers in the workplace don't get the best projects, don't rise as fast through the company as singles. All that traveling for the company means that singles get noticed more.
Anyone who thinks that it's not fair to singles that people with families get "so much" time off, and get to leave early and come to work a bit late, only have to look to Japan to see what happens when companies don't offer flexibility to parents in the workplace. Married workers don't want to have children and risk their careers. And that means that all the single people, if they "choose" to remain single, will have a heck of time in their retirement age of getting government help to pay for their health care costs, and other services. A functional government needs enough young adults paying taxes to cover their budgets.
When parents go home early to take care of their kids, they are doing single people a favor. Companies that give "benefits" to workers with families are giving singles and the economy a boost. If they don't give those "benefits," women would be less inclined to have kids, and then the goverment would have to start paying them to have children. To pay women to have kids mean that they would have to raise taxes on single workers to help pay for the program. Singles have to decide whether they want to work longer hours, or give a bigger chunk of their paycheck to the government.
Working parents need time off to raise their kids because kids don't raise themselves. We need these children to become responsible adults and contribute to society. I say give parents more time off and more benefits so they can do a good job at it. All these complaining singles in the workplace should just hurry up and find their "soulwhatever" so they too can have families. They would be able to get these "benefits" that working parents get and they resent so much. They would get to go home to crying infants, house shores, and stressed out weekends. And like their married counterparts, there will be days when they will long for these long hours at work, alone, with dimmed light, eating Chinese.
Furthermore, single workers have choices that are not available to workers with families. Singles can just leave their jobs if they don't like the hours, the amount of work that is being giving to them or to go on a sabbatical in the Andes. People with families have to just stick it out.
Below is a visual representation of what happens to a country where companies don't give benefits to working parents. Enjoy!
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