I have a friend who reduced her hours at work and became part of some mainly online Weight Loss company. She now works for them and earns money by selling their products and by recruiting new woman to do the same role she does. All her work is done via FB and emails and she puts many photos on her FB page of the products she sells, the meals she cooks and ‘before and after’ photos of women who have found success through her diet powders and pills. She also puts up lots of inspirational quotes to try and paint a picture of how people’s lives could be if they joined her team.
Anyway - on to my point.
Numerous times a week she will list on her FB Page all the reasons why working from home and from her phone (as in FB and emails) is the way to go and she will make comments about how she gets to “be there” for her son when it really matters, (in relation to him being 18 months old) and how he gets to have his mummy around all the time like he should have. It always has an undertone of if mother is at home with her child it must mean she cares more for her child than a mother who goes out to work.
Today she has posted another list of why women should follow her footsteps and she has written “No packing my son off to a childminder” and it’s really pissed me off.
Maybe I’m being too sensitive because I do use a childminder but the term “packing him off” implies it’s something bad for the child and mothers are bad for doing it.
It really riled me up and I can’t help but think using statements like that is just going to piss other working women off too as opposed to luring them in and increasing her recruitment numbers which in turn leads to a pay rise.
When I read it it simply made me think that I wouldn’t want to work for such a judgemental company or woman.
Maybe she doesn’t realise how her statement could be interpreted but it’s just really annoyed me.