ita, I've got an employee who would march in the streets for that. She calls out every single month. We've told her to please adjust her work schedule around it, and she doesn't, and she calls the other employees and tells whoever picks up, be it husband or answering machine, exactly why she needs someone to cover her shift.

(Also, I couldn't get to the article without a login- is there a Buffista one?)

Try this, Lilty.

Laura, do you have a safe haven law in your state?

Yes. They could have dropped the baby no questions asked at any fire station, which in Lauderdale not tough to find. This should probably be more well known.

Thanks, ita.

I think California does a pretty good job of advertising their safe haven laws, and then I think that the only time I hear about it is when a baby is found in a dumpster.

I just don't get it. I mean, there's post-partum depression, general craziness, but in the case of the baby tossed out the car, two people had to agree. What are the chances of that much crazy being on the same page at that same second?

I remember thinking that about that teen couple that was on trial for killing their baby a few years back, Allyson. Then I remembered Hitler didn't exactly act alone.

I was already in a terrible it's-a-dark-world-out-there place this morning, though. People should probably avoid my posts today, until they've doubled up on their happy pills.

lalala people aren't really as bad as they seem la la la

But it would mean that I would then have an obligation during the only weekend I have free in Feb.

Do you have weekend-specific things you want to be doing? That would be my deciding factor. Because you have free time generally.

I shudder to think of the process of determining precisely who is eligible for this menstrual leave.

Erg. That's what sick leave is for. Cause if you are passing out on the floor of the bathroom or you can't muscle through the pain, YOU ARE SICK, regardless of cause.

Robin, what kind of dog?! Pictures!

Sara, how much sick leave do you get? For many people with regular hard-hitting periods, they can't afford to get a cold on top of that.

I do get a fair amount. 2 or 3 weeks a year, with rollover. If it is a chronic problem, I think it should be treated like a chronic medical problem by the employer. Which, I know, they aren't so generous about. And then there is the whole issue of no-sick leave employers.

I am one who finds myself in a cold sweat on the bathroom floor about 50% of the time. I'm "lucky" in that, while I'm pretty miserable, I can pretty much count on it to be completely debilitating for roughly 8 hours. Then it goes back to merely uncomfortable.