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Oh, yes. Even worse was when I was the first in my 5th-grade class to get her period, and had to deal with pads, etc., in full view of anyone else in that bathroom. Yuck.
Kathy A is me. And it's not like I'm freakishly shy or anything--I grew up in a house with five women and one bathroom. But this--this SUCKED BEYOND ALL SUCK when you're 11 years old. I wanted to die EVERY time it happened.
Theoretically, you could request a pass for the teachers' bathroom, which had a door that locked. But then everyone knew what was going on and the humilation was multiplied.
My boss prefers hiring people with kids. He thinks it means they're more stable and less likely to leave a job.
My boss prefers hiring people with kids. He thinks it means they're more stable and less likely to leave a job.
Less likely to quit a crappy job.
Adding doors on bathroom stalls in school to the list of things I never even knew I should be grateful for. Wow.
My boss prefers hiring people with kids. He thinks it means they're more stable and less likely to leave a job.
A friend of my father's once told me after I was married and had a mortgage that I was only having a kid away from him considering that he might hire me. He ran a small industrial refridgeration and air-conditioning company, and I'm an English major, but sure, I guess that was a snub.
My boss prefers hiring people with kids. He thinks it means they're more stable and less likely to leave a job.
Does he hire female people?
Less likely to quit a crappy job.
Exactly. Did I mention I'm looking for a new job?
Does he hire female people?
Yup. But they never last. Because he's an ass.
I only asked, because I've heard that theory before, of hiring "family types" because they're more stable. In a two parent family that includes children, if both spouses are working, one or the other (or a rotating combo of both) is staying home with sick kids, etc. And it seems to me that the so-called pro-family bosses, are the ones with the least patience for, "Yes, I was out with Ben's strep throat this week, but Julia has it this week," realities of "stability".
