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If a manager told you that parental leave means lower rating, that's a clear signal the company doesn't value families. With everything that is involved in gro
by Fire-Dragon-DoL 6y ago
If a manager told you that parental leave means lower rating, that's a clear signal the company doesn't value families.
With everything that is involved in growing a kid (teaching, empathy, learn to talk in the most simple and direct way), I would be surprised if you are not actually improving. All those interpersonal skills are growing, they might not match directly to your job (e.g. Coding), but will make you a lot more valuable.
I am father of a 2 years old and my mentoring skills increased dramatically since I got her.
- fma 6y agoActually of OP can get it in writing that parental leave = lower rating, and parental leave was taken under FMLA...that's illegal. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/77b-fmla-protections https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/77b-fmla-protec... "An employer is prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against an employee or prospective employee for having exercised or attempted to exercise any FMLA right. " I know of a manager at my company dumb enough to put it in an annual review...needless to say, there's a lawsuit and said manager is no longer w/ the company.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 6y agoI thought that, but I also thought it would be borderline impossible to prove.
- giantg2 6y agoI got that information from a friend who wasn't even supposed to tell me. I wouldn't jeopardize them. They didn't say it necessarily means a lower rating. It's that they will compare you apples to apples with the output of your colleagues who did not take leave. If you took 6 weeks of paid parental leave, then your story point count will be about 15% lower than theirs.