One of my coworkers has her 6 year old child on her lap during corporate zoom meetings!

[AnOrdinaryCitizen]

Theses are what I've observed, noticed and experienced at the workplaces I'd worked:

. If you are healthy and single, you need to work hard and be available whenever the company needs you
. If you keep working hard and being always available, you will have more work given to you, and your co-workers will always come to ask you to do favours for them. In the other words is your reward for working hard is more work
. If you know how to talk and socialize, people will like you, and you have less work to do. You will have an easy life
. If you have have many kids and many kinds of sickness (physical or mental), you tell people in a sweet voice and show pictures to and bring treats for them, then people will have lots of sympathy for you. Then you will have privileges and be protected
. If you've been working hard for a long time, and then you become burned out and you speak up, people will say you've changed and you are jealous with the ones who work less and have privileges
. I you don't have kids, people who have kids say you you don't understand how hard it is to have kids and raising a family. And hey say you should find ways to contribute money and support/help them to take care of their kids. That is ridiculous. It seems like there are so many people in the world like to f*ck up and want to make gofundme for them

My suggestions for the OP:

. Just do you job within your abilities
. Don't say anything that people would say you are jealous. The fact is who would not be jealous when you work your butt off, and you just have to do more and more, while your co-worker just put in minimum time and effort to work because she has kid(s) or sickness. You did not create those problems for her. Those people who have kid(s) and sickness have lots of excuses. They have advantages. The sickness and kids are their weapons
. When you feel burned out and sick, call in sick. Read your sick leave policy in your company
. Set boundary, don't bend backwards to help everyone, and when you cannot help them anymore, they will hate you

At this COVID time, people with kids and sickness can make a lot, a lot more excuses for not to do their job right. They have something more important to do. That is taking care of their children and their sickness. You cannot do anything. Even employers have to support them. Their f*cking up and pooping kids out and sickness are not their problems. The society and the employers have to have responsibilities to take care of them. If you don't take care of them, they will say you are cold, you are heartless.

[Threestep2]

Originally Posted by ContraPagan

I work for NYSOH, the NY Health Exchange, and the folks who are working from home have to guarantee that the work computer is inaccessible to others in the household, especially during work hours. We are dealing with consumers' personal identifying information, such as SSN, DOB, addresses, and health insurance information, so it is important that other household members not be able to see the work screens or overhear the conversations. The calls are recorded, so some parent breaking off in the middle of a call to speak to a child wouldn't go over well.

So WFH is not an option for those with limited space?

[PJSaturn]

This thread turned into a mess (likely the OP's intention). There are too many off-topic posts, sweeping generalizations and inappropriate comments. The thread is now closed.