People with kids, what do you do when they get sick

[Pocatello]

I don't have kids of my own, so I just take over the work of parents with sick kids and have to go home, along with my own work, that's how my supervisor sees it.

 

[Triforceofcourage]

Mind your own business FTW?

 

[Lola]

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
Mind your own business FTW?

you cannot do that in this instance. :roll:

 

[crystal]

We drop off our daughter at a daycare. When she was sick (which is common at this time of the year) one of us take turn taking care of her. All our vacation/PTO are pretty much shot but that is the price you paid for the well fair of your love one. When the daycare/school calls to pick up your child, you go pick up your child. There isn't anything you can do about it. It is to protect other childern well being that they ask you to pick up your sick child.

P.S. if you think sick 4 time in two weeks are too much, have a kid and see how fast you change your tunes.

 

[StrangeRanger]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Well with my job, I can go get them whenever I need to. My boss and company put family 1st, so as long as we don't abuse it we're fine. I've only had to do it once so far this year.

And you obviously don't have kids because kids come before anything else.

you are right, i do not have kids, and i do understand that children come first... it is just so annoying because i KNOW she could call her: mother, mother-in-law, sister, etc. but she didn't.

You're missing an important point w/ this comment, a sick child does not want his/her grand mother or aunt or uncle or what not, they want their mom or dad. They feel like crap and just want someone loving to help them feel better.
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[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz
Sonovab!tch! :|
this is the 4th time in about two weeks that my coworker had to leave work to go get her sick girl from school.
It is so annoying because that leaves me here at the office by myself. I can handle it but it gets over-loading doing work for 3+ people.

Anyways, to those that have kids... what do you do if you are at your job and the school calls you? do you leave work too? do you have a babysitter/grandparent that can get them?
Is my place of work the "norm" when it comes to dealing with working parents and sick kids?

4 times in two weeks? Sounds like she is taking advantage of the situation. I had a co-worker that did this CONSTANTLY, and it pissed me off to no end. His daughter had a great ability to time sickness when there was something time-consuming to do.

I'd recommend you talk to the boss and have him recommend that she take her child to the hospital and get a note. I'll bet you she will stop immediately. :disgust:

 

[tyler811]

Might take time away from your neffing

 

[ATLien247]

Assuming LolaWiz is FT, you can't really expect PT employees to have the same amount of dedication to the job...

 

[tyler811]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: LolaWiz

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Well with my job, I can go get them whenever I need to. My boss and company put family 1st, so as long as we don't abuse it we're fine. I've only had to do it once so far this year.

And you obviously don't have kids because kids come before anything else.

you are right, i do not have kids, and i do understand that children come first... it is just so annoying because i KNOW she could call her: mother, mother-in-law, sister, etc. but she didn't.

The children are her responsibility, not a relatives.

You are right, but her husband is not even working yet he didn't want to get his little girl.
I know kids cannot choose when they get sick, but it is happening at least once a week this past month.

Well then your beef is with the husband. Thats just BS to make the wife leave because he is too lazy, selfish and irresponsible to get his own child from school. Your co worker needs to get a backbone and tell her husband to pick up the child or she could lose her job.

 

[pnad]

I have recently ran into this issue with my son. He is in K and learning how to play the teacher/nurse with the 'I don't feel good - my tummy hurts' routine. After the 4th call in 3 weeks I told the nurse, "Look lady, you have a 6 year old boy playing you. Give him a glass of water and send his ass back to class ok?" I also grounded him from the xbox for a week.

 

[Lola]

Originally posted by: ATLien247
Assuming LolaWiz is FT, you can't really expect PT employees to have the same amount of dedication to the job...

I am full time, she is part time. I love this lady to death, but it does always seem she has a knack to know when to leave.
Just last week I was totally alone and VERY busy.
With our office, I cannot NOT answer the three lines ringing at once, i cannot lock the doors and hope people will not come in to write policies, etc.

I am lucky i can be on ATOT throughout the day, and i will keep it up and browse, today, it has been soemwhat busy with a lot of people bitching, complaining, etc. And on top of it, i have to deal with stuff that she left unfinished that she should have completed earlier in the week but she didn't because she was not in.

 

[Injury]

No kids, but my Plan of action would be:

Pick the kid up on lunchbreak if possible. If not, make up any missed time at the end of the day. Where I work is a very laid back environment. They don't mind if you take a little more than your hour for lunch as long as you don't skimp out on the minimum 8 hours you gotta be there everyday. Probably the only thing they are adamant on is that you aren't showing up any later than 8-8:30 range, although expected to be there at 8. Deadlines have to be met throughout the day and they don't wait for you to roll out of bed, and they don't want you to be there too late making up time because it means that the second shift guys are wasting time waiting to do their part of the work. The point is that they are very understanding and will accomidate you without a bunch of corporate red tape rule book BS.

Depending on how close you live to relatives, you can always check with them before the school year starts to see if they can have your back, but that's a hard thing to rely on, still.

 

[MixMasterTang]

My dad is retired so I just have him pick my son or watch him when he's sick.

Edit: Or if my dad can't assist, I will just usually work from home if possible.

 

[Mursilis]

Originally posted by: Golgatha
Call the wife and have her pick the boy up. Stay-at-home mom FTW .

Or stay-at-home dad, it's all good!

Seriously, having only one income has its obvious economic drawbacks, but we wouldn't trade our current situtation (one parent at home) for the world. The reduced stress levels are more than worth it. I just don't get why people have kids if they want daycare to raise them.