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Vegan Fitness :: View topic - do people bring babies/kids to your job?
Since we have a thread on jobs....
i work in an office.
cubicle style.
every day there are at least 2 or 3 kids under 13 years old hanging out.
sometimes just after school, but sometimes it's an infant that's there from 9-5.
I don't care we have a lot of single moms, so to me it's better than either A) people that can't sort out childcare just not showing up to work and potentially losing income or B) people leaving their kids with idiots ....but....
Is this unusual?
I've never heard of it in Canada, that's for sure.
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It does happen occassionally in UK that people bring their kids to work but I think office culture in general isn't in favour of that here.
If I had kids I wouldn't do it.
It doesn't look professional.
It's a different case if someone has just had a baby and while off on maternity leave brings the baby in to work for a short time to show the baby to colleagues.
That is usually acceptable.
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Wot Emm said.
Although having said that, I did recently take my 5 year old into the office for literally 5 minutes to show her where Daddy works as she kept asking me about it.
She quickly realised that it wasn't very exciting & hasn't asked to visit again
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Doesn't happen here that I've seen (University) but have to say I'm quite glad
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Oh yeah the five minute new baby thing, that's normal everywhere.
this is showing up at 9am and saying "i couldn't arrange childcare" and then laying a blanket and a mini-DVD player out in the office for the day.
suits me fine cuz i usually end up watching movies and taking naps with somebody more my brain level!
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Quote: : doesn't happen here that I've seen (University) but have to say I'm quite glad
So undergrads don't count?
In the light of health and safety legislation, I've definitely never seen toddlers charge around a microbiology laboratory, and I have never heard of seven year olds made to fill boxes of tips for pipettes as a summer holiday game.
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Sometimes there's spogs bumbling around, especially in the holidays.
They're a well behaved bunch though, so it's never a problem.
There is also always a whole load of dogs wandering round;
The office is like battersea dogs home some days and is most awesome
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My old boss's dog used to attend staff meetings.
And fart.
"Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling" - Mark Rippetoe
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Folks here (in a US university office setting) bring their kids all the time.
Myself included. Not as often as my office-mates to the south, though.
I enjoy it.
Better than having adults around.
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Our University makes some extra money in the summer by running daycamps so I just got hoards of screaming children running around outside my office window sometimes.
It is kind of fun to watch sometimes...
Especially the kids that do really weird things...
Like the one little boy who spent fifteen minutes rubbing his cheek on a shoebox.
I wish there were dogs around my office all day...
Unfortunately I work in the chemistry building and free roaming dogs + chemicals and glass seems like a bad combination.
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People here (at the Government in Ottawa) do it pretty often.
It's awesome. I wish they did it more.
Having children in the workplace must be a part of any culture that includes both parents working.
The concept of children being seperate from the "9-5" is very much so attached to traditional hetero gender roles (the wife stays home while daddy brings home the bacon).
With more and more women entering the workforce (employed mother's grew from 39% to 73% in the past 30 years), and continuing to serve as the primary caregivers of children, it is inevitable.
And on the flip side, as some men begin to share more in the caregiving department, they will likely be bringing children to work as well.
I'd love to see more children running around here, it'd make for a far more wholistic environment.
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We put the children to work here, so there's often a few kicking about.
I don't think they get paid, but we sometimes put them in the credits
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Wow.. This is a reminder of how thankful some of us should be for the public kindergartens in our countries.
No need to chose between career and family!
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I feel so lucky that I can stay home with the kids.
One set of inlaws both work, so when summer break comes around, they don't know what to do with their daughter.
They often sign her up for camps and such.
I think they'd be thrilled with some kind of on-site daycare.
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Quote: : People here (at the Government in Ottawa) do it pretty often.
It's awesome. I wish they did it more.
Having children in the workplace must be a part of any culture that includes both parents working.
The concept of children being seperate from the "9-5" is very much so attached to traditional hetero gender roles (the wife stays home while daddy brings home the bacon).
With more and more women entering the workforce (employed mother's grew from 39% to 73% in the past 30 years), and continuing to serve as the primary caregivers of children, it is inevitable.
And on the flip side, as some men begin to share more in the caregiving department, they will likely be bringing children to work as well.
I'd love to see more children running around here, it'd make for a far more wholistic environment.
How on earth can you concentrate on your work when there are children running around and being loud though?
I program computers and that requires a quiet environment and deep concentration.
No way in hell could I cut code with kids roaming about in my office.
It isn't a "Chatty" job and can't be done half-heartedly in a multi-tasking fashion.
One typo can produce a "logic bug" that will dog your code for months.
Spug and xkillerx no doubt feel the same.
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