Growl! Men who say they want to work from home to be closer to parenting!

[TamsinTiger]

Really?

That is just an excuse to their employers to spend part of their working day, when the children are at school flopping about in front of the TV or getting anal about saucepans being left out on the side and then lo and behold when their young offspring arrive home..they have to do work and off they go to their laptops..pathetic..and then when they are confronted about this they start going on about friends that they know whose wifes work just to make you feel guilty..have they no clue whatsoever that mothers at home are doing work!! the most important work..that they can not even bring themselves to attempt?

Rant not over yet...

AND I am happy to be completely unreasonable!!

eh?

When you say 'men', you mean a particular man in your life, I'm guessing?

I work from home and don't consider it to be a soft option at all. I think people who work from home struggle to be taken seriously because they're not out at the office, so I'd say YABU

Of course if someone is really sitting around watching TV then YANBU

I have no idea what you're talking about either but would you like another bucket of tar for your huge brush?

Not particulary coherent but I wil say YANBU based on dh taking time off (working form home) after I had ds2. I begged him not to but he insisted he didn't want to miss the new baby. I basically spent 2 weeks with a newborn dangling off my tit while I chased and shouted at poor dd 1 to "leave daddy alone he is working". Total nightmare and guilt trip or not he banned from ever pulling that again.

The most important work? Lol ffs

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YABU

Are you talking about one person in particular here? Or just making vague generalisations about "men"?

IME people who "work from home" actually do work, they just do it from home.

My db worked from home running his business in the night and looked after his family in the daytime, while his (foreign born) wife went from learning the rudiments of the language to writing a PhD in a very short space of time. Not everybody is lazy, you know.

YABU

Yes, working from home actually consists of working at home.

YABU! DH works from home sometimes, and works later than usual, as he feels that he needs to "prove" that WFH doesn't mean that he's taking it easy.

You use the word troll... I do not think it means what you think it means.

It sounds like this is about one lazy man rather than men.

Right so a badly written, sexist over generalisation not being understood equates to trolls?

How?

Blardy hell, incarnation of Gabby!

OP, people with intelligence generally use accurate punctuation.

Just saying.

Oh and your post is startlingly sexist as well.

no, yanbu but there are exceptions to this generalisation of course

What is it you do that's the most important work? I'm not being rude, I'n genuinely interested.

"Working from home" is exactly that- it doesn't mean doing the dishes, childcare, laundry, cooking etc- you are on company time, working for your employer. Just in your home rather than an office.

You haven't actually made a statement that we can judge as reasonable or unreasonable!

Have you had a difficult day? Don't worry, tomorrow is a new one

Yah, that Hecate is a well known troll. And as for that Worrall poster.........