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When my daughter was born, I was entitled to 2 weeks. I had saved 2 weeks of holiday so I could take a total of 4 weeks, but wasn't allowed to do so, because th
by alias_neo 5y ago
When my daughter was born, I was entitled to 2 weeks. I had saved 2 weeks of holiday so I could take a total of 4 weeks, but wasn't allowed to do so, because the company couldn't function without me for that long.
Two, four weeks, or whatever it is really isn't enough time, your partner needs support and you have a new child to look after.
Like you, the pandemic left us spending the first year+ at home with our daughter and it has been a benefit to each of us.
- wirthjason 5y agoSorry to hear you couldn’t take it off. Do you feel that the company couldn’t function without you?
- bregma 5y agoWe call this the "lottery rule" or, when management are not around, the "bus rule". If the company can not function without a single employee, they also need to ban employees from buying lottery tickets. Or walking on streets patrolled by homicidal buses (is there any other kind when it comes to key employees?). Bad management is a sign they are going to experience running the company without key employees sooner rather than later.
- artpi 5y agoI thought its a bus count factor - how many employees have to be in a bus accident for the company to suffer a fatal blow. Have never heard about the lottery one but that sounds like a nice positive spin!
- xkcd-sucks 5y agoInteresting, at my place it's the other way around: Suggesting someone might be unwillingly killed by chance is fine ("bus rule "), but suggesting someone could find the job materially useless ("lottery rule") or get fed up ("fuck-it rule") is gauche
- __turbobrew__ 5y agoIf the company can't function without you for 4 weeks you should ask for a $300000 bonus for not taking paternity leave. Otherwise you could leave and the company would cease to exist.