working mothers

[novicemama]

The company I work for is signed up with 'wellbeing works' - this is part of our 'benefits' and there are helplines you can use etc. Every week they send out an email, usually with articles about health, stress in the workplace, your workplace rights etc. I have already had to complain to them once this year about an article entitled 'Rape: don't become another statistic' warning women not to drink too much or give off mixed messages to male colleagues in the pub

Now today I see [[http://eu.healthinsite.net/ContentViewerPane/ContentViewerPane.aspx?cookie=2100001605&Content=5914&ContentType=2
this little gem]] about working mothers and how to deal with having to spend nights away from your family.

I don't know where to start really, there are just SO MANY things in there that make my blood boil. Would anyone like to kick off? And any input into the complaint email I'll be sending this afternoon would be welcomed too!

??/The article is an original piece of work that was developed by our psychology writer in response to a user request

man with hamburger complex? and no real mommy, poor thing

bollocks to the psychology writer - it's not just "Mom" (repeatedly) that gives it away as American, it's "cell" instead of mobile. They are fibbing fibsters of fibsville USA.

Still think you should tell your company that they are paying for drivel and need to look very carefully at the contract. They are being ripped off by a bunch of stupid sexists.

ISN'T - you had me worried for a second there!

btw, well done for getting the ghastly thing taken down.

What worries me and should worry your employer is that this company purports to offer health advice. If this is their idea of acceptable content and psychological insight, I wouldn't trust their advice on any health topic at all.

Shitting hell - what a pile of arse. OP, great complaint. I really think you should reply now asking when they can expect the counterpart article addressed to male employees. Tell them you are a user and you are requesting it. And ask that they write it including the assumption that the male employee's partner has a mental age of 4, as they have so kindly done in this case.

Is there anything at all in that article that distinguishes the "hubby"'s needs and feelings from the kids'?

great. Showed the article to "hubby". He is now demanding a treasure map for the time I'll be on a business trip.

It's how they view husbands and children as basically the same, as if your husband has the mental age of 3

are you my twin fuchsia? :o

"Shitting hell - what a pile of arse"

oh Elephants you have such a lovely turn of phrase

it's been said before, SSM :o

You've got to wonder about the qulaifications their 'psychology' writer has.

Good for you OP - what a load of bollocks!

It is so bad it is funny. Any chance you could let a newspaper know about this - this company deserves to be exposed.

It has made the Telegraph and the online article links directly to this thread.

Actually the thing that made my stomach churn was the unutterable tweeness. Hubby... Munching on Mommy's meals... Feel really quite queasy.

ooh yes nannynick.

Am a little hurt now that they didn't quote my immortal shitting arse line.

How depressing that even after national press attention there's no apology?! A defence even of the article.

If I presented that load of clap trap before an employment Tribunal as indicative of company attitudes I'd be expecting a hefty payout.

Bastards

Hey Novicemama - I hope your work have not outed you?

Novicemama can I suggest you email them suggesting that their 'psychology' writer seeks counselling for his issues.

Fiona Phillips mentioned this on the Andrew Marr programme this morning.

OMG ladies, I did NOT know that this had reached the news pages of the Telegraph and the Andrew Marr programme!

it should! I bet there are a lot of women out there though who don't understand what all the fuss is about, of course they will put socks ready for hubby for every day they are gone and leave instructions like "bigger child (second bedroom from the left) has to be taken to school by 8.30, address..".

Or ask their mothers to come stay over so the children would not be neglected and alone (with dad).

novicemama if you are concerned about your anonymity (i.e. this linking you to previous threads) you can ask MNHQ to change your old posts into a different name.

It just goes to show how things like this can get picked up in the media.

oh and didn't they say that the article will be removed? Is this the same site:
eu.healthinsite.net/ContentViewerPane/ContentViewerPane.aspx?cookie=2100004027&Content=5914&ContentType=2

they even have a separate category "women at work". apparently this is something very rare and peculiar, women working. otherwise they would have "Men at work" category too, but I can't see one.