Same treatment - yes. Same flexibility? No. Children do tend to provide legitimate emergencies from time to time.
I’m not saying a non-parent should have their months-ahead approved PTO cancelled because a parent suddenly decides they want to take their kid to some event on that same day. But if a parent needs to leave early because they got a phone call that their kid got wounded at school - that should be arranged even when non-parents are not offered flexibility of the same level.
Child emergencies, family emergencies, pet emergencies, personal medical emergencies, household emergencies… I mean, yeah, if shit is happening at home, everyone should have the right to go take care of it, child-related or not. If I were a boss, and someone said, “I need to go home, it’s urgent,” I’d shoo them out the door and reassign their task no matter what the nature of the emergency was.
Unless they ‘urgently’ need to stand in line to buy a video game. That isn’t an emergency.
Same treatment - yes. Same flexibility? No. Children do tend to provide legitimate emergencies from time to time.
I’m not saying a non-parent should have their months-ahead approved PTO cancelled because a parent suddenly decides they want to take their kid to some event on that same day. But if a parent needs to leave early because they got a phone call that their kid got wounded at school - that should be arranged even when non-parents are not offered flexibility of the same level.
And anyone else should have that same flexibility to cover legitimate emergencies even though they don’t have children.
How dare you claim there are other emergencies than non-kid-related ones!?
except non-parents should also have the flexibility to leave early if some sort of emergency comes up
Child emergencies, family emergencies, pet emergencies, personal medical emergencies, household emergencies… I mean, yeah, if shit is happening at home, everyone should have the right to go take care of it, child-related or not. If I were a boss, and someone said, “I need to go home, it’s urgent,” I’d shoo them out the door and reassign their task no matter what the nature of the emergency was.
Unless they ‘urgently’ need to stand in line to buy a video game. That isn’t an emergency.