My male colleague just had a real oh shit moment, he is in a typical dual income family with one child,
"I just heard from nursery my son is sick and my wife is away on business"
We have a really key meeting with clients tomorrow that he absolutely HAS to be in. But the child comes first.
I don't wish the problem on anyone and I feel for him as I've been there myself but there is something kind of comforting in the fact that I feel like I am hearing men having this problem so much more often. I can think of 4 incidences since Christmas when pretty key meetings had to be shifted or done by phone etc because a parent wasn't able to make it dual to sick children, and in 3 cases it was a father.
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ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 25/03/2014 11:43
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