to CRINGE...

[MrsSlave]

when women put up on facebook, 'Full time mummy' as their job title?

Surely I can't be the only one cringing? Or maybe I am?

Its awful, and chavvy as heck!

I don't like it either (and I'm a SAHM) but then again you could argue that 'working mum' could be similarly offensive (implies SAHM does bugger all).

I cringe at Facebook full stop tbh. Absolutely loathe it and wish it didn't exist!

Why don't people just leave bits like this blank? If you didn't go to university, there's no need to list 'university of life' in the education bit. If you don't have a job, you don't need to put anything in there. It's OK not to have some kind of job listed. I didn't feel the need to put anything in the religion box because it wasn't relevant to me.

Mine since leaving full time paid employment is now domestic goddess in training. Anyone who actually knows me knows this is a joke. It might make you cringe but perhaps that person feels they need to validate to everyone else why they aren't in paid employ.

Mine says Head Zookeeper...

I'm a full time mum, but I also work. I don't stop being a mum because I work.

Sahm and full time mum are not the same thing.

Can I put both on my Facebook? or should I be part time mum/part time employee?

Full time mum doesn't bother me - us the term quite often the add on such as proud or yummy does make me cringe

Oh yeah and lol at the ones who studied at "university of life" and "school of hard knocks"

Btw I'd happily call myself pt mum - I gleefully drop my kids in daycare on work days - going to the toilet alone, hot coffee, reading a book at lunch utter, utter bliss. For that I'd gladly call myself a pt mum

That, and the people who add "mummy" titles into their names on facebook.

No. NO. Stop it now.

Slummy mummy is my favourite!

Studied at: hogarth school of witchcraft and wizardry.

Yawn

I have a FB friend whose job is listed as 'CEO at Four Little Darlings'.

Fixerupperz what do you mean? "as chavvy as heck" - baffling

I wasn't having a dig at SAHM as I have been both working mum and SAHM. I was just simply saying that I find it cringey. Why not leave it blank?

But purple you would still be a mum. If you have dc and leave them at home to go shopping your still a mum. Same applies with work.

I find it far more annoying when people name their place of employment on Facebook. It's ridiculously naive.

Full time mummy etc doesn't bother me. It is what they're doing, though stay at home parent is less twee, I will admit. But writing about their shitty day isn't going to get them sacked for bringing their employer into disrepute, is it.

Even when I'm not working, I keep my job title on Facebook because I'm so grimly bloody determined to hold on to my identity as something other than Mummy.

If that's how they want to define their job, I don't see the problem.

They are full time moms if they're staying home doing childcare 24/7. That is their job. It is a lot of work.

"I don't stop being a mum because I work."

You don't stop being an employee at your company because you go home either. What's your point?

Seems a bit double standard to say you can list yourself as one job, but not another simply because you do it also.

I name my place of employment of FB. But then the last time I posted anything on Facebook was ... Erm ... 2010. And it was a photo of DS2 (then teeny) posted so my cousin who lives abroad could see it. And I have my privacy settings even further ramped up these days so that I think I'm the only person that can see anything now anyway.

I suspect my employer isn't worried about my FB profile in any way. In any case, the fact I work there is displayed on the website for all to see so it's not an online secret that I work there.

I think your post is a bit mean-spirited and bitter, OP. I don't particularly like "full-time mummy" either but "Stay-at-Home Mom" sounds kind of hokey too. I don't think anyone would write that in order to have a dig at Mums who work outside the house....it's just a way of describing what you do with your time during the day. I'm a SAHM with school-aged kids yet I'm busy all day...unemployed isn't quite right, lady of leisure isn't right either and housewife is mired in gender politics .

YANBU but it's not as bad as when people put "Lily Amelia's mummy" and such like, bleurgh!!!

Calamitous

You're probably safe in that case

People are sacked for their Facebook posts on a daily basis though. Many are far too candid and rather more avid Facebook users.

I don't give a shit what people put and it's generally obvious when people are being sarcastic.

On mine it has school/ uni etc and then it says 'work' not job and I put "work what's that? I stay at home and play all day" anyone that knows me ie anyone on my friends list knows it's a joke as I have five kids so am generally pretty busy.

It's Fb why take it so seriously.

And Another, you can still keep your identity when you don't work outside the home...a job title is not required. I don't work but, just like you, there are many facets to my personhood beyond being a mum .