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Post by workingclassdog on Jul 8, 2014 15:04:31 GMT
I have brought my dd in to work with me occasionally, only with permission. She is six. She isn't allowed to wander around. She stays in my office. She does not to go talk to anyone or go in their offices/cubes. She watches movies with a headset on, colors or plays with a few small toys she brings with her. I take her to the bathroom, out of the office for lunch. This doesn't happen to often and usually on days that there are many people gone and I just can't find a sitter. Sometimes people don't even know she is around unless they come in my office. I can't imagine having kids run around and all that. That isn't right.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 8, 2014 15:06:59 GMT
I work in a family-owned small business. I'm one of the few non-family employees. One of the ladies has literally raised her kids in the office. From the time they were born to now - they are 12 and 6yo. This next school year, they'll only be there from 3:00-5:00. I can't wait. They are in the office all day right now.
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Post by Lexica on Jul 8, 2014 15:29:33 GMT
I came to work late one morning (dentist appointment before work) and found a kid sitting at my desk, playing on my computer, coloring books and crayons spread out all over my side desk, juice rings on the counter top, and a big pile of dirty tissues! The child was too sick to go to school. She had a fever. So the mom brings her to work to cootie up MY office?? I was furious. I went and found the mom and told her I was in for the rest of the day and wanted my office back. I had to spend about 20 minutes between waiting for her to clear out and cleaning all surfaces with my hand cleaner. The keyboard had crumbs stuck in it, along with multiple unseen germs having a party on there. It was gross!
Oh, and she packed the kid up and put her in the space right opposite to mine to where she was facing my cubicle. We had low partitions and she was sitting at that computer facing me. We were about 4 feet apart, if that. She kept coughing and sniffling and sneezing. I had to go back to the mother and complain that I didn't want to pick up her child's illness. The mom was pissed at me because she was interrupted again to have to find someplace else for her child. None of us wanted to be exposed. Plus, I felt badly for the child. She was obviously miserable and would have been a lot happier on her own couch. Finally, the boss asked the mother to take her child home. The mother tried to make me feel guilty by saying that she came to work because she is a single mom with no vacation hours left and even missing one day on her check was a huge hit to them. It meant not enough groceries for the week.
I was a single mom too, and I reminded her of the last couple of vacation days that she took to go to the mountains in the snow, and the day she took off because she had gone out with some of the other employees to a happy hour, closed the place, and was still drunk when her alarm went of to get ready for work the next day. She needed stay home to sleep off her drunken state. When you are a single mother, you kinda don't get to do the fun things that everyone else does because you have to save your sick days for your children's illnesses. At least that is what you are supposed to do if your paycheck can't handle a missing day in it. You don't party and stay home, yet expect your sick child to go to work with you. AARRGGGHH. Is it obvious I did not care for that particular employee?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2014 15:41:52 GMT
Not a popular opinion, but I also think most animals do not belong in the office. I worked at one place where the douchebag owner had a mini chihuahua. Damn thing would run right in front of you with his tiny legs that could snap in two so easily. I guess the lesson is, if you can keep kids/animals in your own space and not bothering other people it might be okay.
ETA: Also some people like me are allergic to cats and dogs.
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Post by rumplesnat on Jul 8, 2014 15:59:44 GMT
I strongly feel that dogs and kids are a lot alike in that just because you like them and think they're cute, it doesn't mean everyone else does. I get highly agitated when people can't control either one of them.
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Post by cecelia on Jul 8, 2014 16:17:49 GMT
I agree 100 percent!!! Unfortunately I am a teacher so that is probably not going to fly at my place of employment. I wish there were more rules in place for teacher & PTO kids at school. Even during after school family activities, they are generally the ones running around back stage and in/out of the teacher's lounge for the snack machines when the policy is that no other kids are allowed to do it. It annoys me when I can't get to the die cut machine after dismissal because someone's kid is busy having a personal arts and crafts moment. What I find ironic is when the parents complain about another parent's kid but don't see the same behavior when their kid does it.... Gosh, I sound grumpy.
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Post by whipea on Jul 9, 2014 0:48:04 GMT
Sometimes people bring their child to work but it is usually just for a few hours. It seems people at my work are conscientious, they keep them contained. When they are out of the parent's offices they are accompanied. Sometimes if I am not too busy I will invite a child to come hang out in my office. We talk, I set them up on one of my computers to play or have them "help" me with my work so it is a learning experience for the child and a break for the parent. I am lucky, I work in a great place and we do our best to help each other.
Now dogs, they are not really allowed but every now and then for a very short time period there are a few of us that will slip a dog in. But again, it is somewhat covert and the dog is never allowed to run around. I have brought my dogs, not all at once but on a few occasions for a short period of time. They are popular with many people at work so I often do not see my dog because someone has taken him or her to their office for the stay. Some of my colleagues have my dog's pictures hanging in their offices. I really do work with wonderful people.
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Post by kimpea on Jul 9, 2014 1:02:18 GMT
That would be irritating. Dh has brought our kids to work with him on a few occasions but they have never ran around, got into anything or made a mess. He has a small conference room attached to his office where they can sit and read or play iPad. Even when they were little they were well behaved in the office.
The only problem he ever had was a coworker gave Dd too many m&m's secretly and she threw up.
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Post by my3freaks on Jul 9, 2014 1:42:02 GMT
Quite a few years ago, I was a dept. manager at a Michael's store. If for some reaosn my kids had to be there for a short time until my husband could pick them up, I put them to work. Facing all the little bottles of paint, cleaning up the teddy bear aisle, etc...there was endless things they could do, and it helped out those of us closing that night!
Melanie
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