Taking your kids to work next Wednesday?

[OneMoreMum]

Apparently the government have advocated taking your kids to work wth you if their school is shut for the strike next week: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15858885

Mmm in my open plan office there must be around 20 people with school age kids (mostly 2 each) so that's 40 kids to house just on our floor of the building.....

Workable proposition do you think?

good news for sahms with working dp's!

Well I booked the day off to march with dd's teachers'....but if I hadn't,It's illegal for children to come into my workplace...it's a turf accountants
Bet CallMeDave didn't think about that one when he came up with his lightbulb moment

David Cameron needs to check his brain is in gear before he opens his mouth!

ALL the Downing St and Houses of Parliament staff should be allowed to bring their children in to work and then see if he still thinks it is a sensible solution!

Plonker!

Apparently:
Mr Cameron's aides said Downing Street itself "would be one of the places where if you want to bring your children, that could be arranged"
So I'll be dropping mine off there at 8.30 and we'll see how that goes..

My school is closed on Wednesday. DD's school is open. So I think I will have a lie in and some MNetteing housework.

I'm running job interviews. Do think the candidates would appreciate having DD1 and DD2 staring at them?!?

Ha!!

I am off anyway but I am a nurse in Psychiatric ward with acutely unwell patients. Somehow I don't think my children would be welcome, nor would I ever take them into that environment. We don't allow patients children on the ward, have a special family room away from the wards.....it's utter nonsense.

Even dh who has an office job has said he wouldn't be able to take the dses in. Damn shame that, I would have loved a day at the shops but it's not to be.....

oooh SinicalSal I like your thinking . I'm sure my two older children wouldn't mind being out of the house with dh for 13 hours and it would make life much easier for me. In fact DS would be delighted to spend 3 hours on a train commuting.

Depends what the job interview is for Bramshot.

To be fair, he did say "where it is safe to do so"!

Mine could come to work, but not much work would get done. Not sure what that would achieve, except keeping them off the streets.

Fortunately I can work from home, but it's going to become untenable if there are repeated strikes.

And I also have a public sector pension and cannot for the life of me understand what the unions would like to propose as an alternative way of saving enough money to pay for all the people who are living longer.

A lovely mum who I don't know that well but we see each other because our children are often swapping playdates, just came up to me and offered to have both my DC on Wednesday while I'm at work. I was speechless with thanks.
Wine and flowers I think.

Wine and flowers indeed - that's really thoughtful of her!

Ah I see where this is going! David C's Big Society! All the SAHPs will VOLUNTEER to take care of the children of working parents! (where's the lightbulb smiley?)

DC may have endorsed it, but it was Louise Mensch who proposed it in the House.

I've been trying to think of work places safe enough to cope with unsupervised school age DC. So far the only place I've thought of is a library.

Ah......was forgetting Libraries will be closed because of the strike.

My workplace is safe enough (office). But they'd be bored out of their brains and likely to cause more disruption. So net amount of work done would probably be less than if I'd taken the day off.

In reality, I'm already working at home that day. So i guess they'll be safe there!

My workplace (council) made a point of saying children were not allowed to come into work on Wednesday.

I work in an office, but the office is above a factory and no-one under 18 is allowed on site.

DD2 (2.2) would LOVE it there, lots of cables to pull, walls to draw on etc etc

DD1 (7) would be bored rigid

I don't work Wednesdays thankfully but I had assumed that DD1's school was staying open as we hadn't heard anything so made plans with DD2 for the day. We were notified last night that the school was in fact closing so am hastily rearranging my day.

In the spirit of minxing I've just emailed my HR department to ask for clarification on their position on this. Last time I asked to bring my children to work (one at a time on separate days) they told me I couldn't as it wouldn't be safe, then hastily wrote a policy to back themselves up. It's an office FFS - there's more dangerous equipment in our house!

I am now timing how long it takes for them to issue a Proclamation banning us from bringing our offspring on Wednesday.

It took 25 minutes, which is break-neck time for a personal response to anything round here, for them to remind me that children are not allowed in our workplace and that I should make other arrangements for Wednesday. I'm now counting to see how long The Proclamation To All Staff takes. Tick tock, tick tock ...

Not only do I work in an office but it's also in a place of higher education that often hosts children younger than some of mine. Interesting to think that my venerable institution thinks it inappropriate for them to be on campus. Not sure what they think they're going to do - maybe outshine some of our more hackneyed academics? Or run amok with a paperclip like they've never seen one before.

Sigh, it's not like there's going to be anyone here for them to annoy anyway.

I will be because I will be working from home!

Hopefully they will be happy downstairs with (many) DVDs and popcorn for 6 or so hours, I will work a slightly shorter day and then take them out somewhere to relieve my guilt!!!

Oh my, the INDEPENDENT school where I work is not striking and the HT has told staff with children who attend state schools that their children would be more than welcome to join us for the day. Children will be taught on normal timetable for their year group where possible and where not, staff will cover taking classes.

I laughed hollowly when DC said that. I work for a Govt Dept on a secure site from which children are banned. I am off on study leave on Weds or i'd love to see how many children get turned away from the gate come in.

Dp works in the oil refinery in grangemouth I think it will be great for dc 6 & 8 to be loose in there!