Because you have a child now, and you’d needed to clock out early from the office, while the other coworkers are still STUCK in the GRIND, and they see you off, and felt uneven, without realizing, that after you get home, you’d need to, WORK some more! Translated…
I’d carried on a conversation with a colleague who’d just become a dad for the very first time, and, there was NO sense of joy in his words, instead, there were, so many distresses that replaced the joys of becoming a father for the first time.
and, guess where this KID’s gonna go after both mommy & daddy is off at work??? Not my photo.
His child is not yet three months old, his wife took her maternity leave, and he’d rushed home after work to take over caring, but, the managers nagged him about how he was getting off work too early, that he had a low compliant rate with the rest of the workers, and started questioning, that he may not have given enough work load at all, wanted the department manager to look into it.
My coworker told me, that from before, when he didn’t have a son yet, working to eight or nine in the evening was a regular thing, but now, he has a child, and couldn’t possibly, leave ALL the responsibilities to his own wife, besides, it’s really not that easy, taking care of a baby. After he’d poured his heart out at me, he’d added, “It’s really, difficult, living like this.’
Surely it is. He’d made me recall how when my own children were still young, I’d gone off work at seven in the evenings, to help bathe my child and put her to bed, and my colleagues complained on FB, “How come some of us get to clock out early and head home to spend quality time with the family”, so, raising your young means not having the chance to hear the children rant on about what happened in school today, and NOT having a chance to eat suppers with them?
I’d once read an article, on thanking people in this day and age who are still willing to have and raise children, because these children will grow up to pay their taxes, to keep the rest of the citizens alive, because these children are the ones, giving us easier elderly years after they grow up. When we’re ill, all of these children are on the first-line of medical care when we fall ill during old age, we will become, totally reliant on these children.
not my comic…
But, as a regular worker of a child, we’d just wanted that we never had children, or that children are already grown, or that our bosses can have more empathies. We’d worked as swiftly as we could already at work, hoping, that we can, get off work on time, a few minutes, or even, just seconds earlier, so we can, get home, to take care of our own young.
Do treat those parents with children kindly, and, do take into mind, the unreasonably long work hours too.
So, this, is a hard-to-balance thing, between work and family, because you have children, and you’d needed to, whiz through your workload, and, you’d finished up your share of workload at the office, and is ready to clock out, but, those other workers who are still working there see you off, and started saying SHIT about it, and they don’t realize, that you have children to raise, to look after, to take care of, they just see, that oh wow, you’re clocking out now, and we’re all still stuck here, and that, is just, the SELFISH way that people have the tendencies to think in.
the only time you have to spend with your baby, before you go to work in the morning, not my photograph…
Life, the Obstacle Course 