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I know what you're saying! I am the only one in my office without kids (I've discussed that a lot) People are always taking off for their kids..and today my boss who "knocked a girl up" (sorry about the term) that he met in a bar, brought his kid to work because he had no one to watch him. So as we're doing assessments and interviewing clients, his kid is running around screaming. I don't think he had a diaper change all day either.

The guy who has the store next door to my workplace has his kid(s?) in a lot. One day we hear this rhythmic bumping sound and finally one of my bosses went next door to check it out. Apparently the kid was bouncing a ball (can't remember if it was against the floor or our common wall).

I dunno. I just don't think kids belong in a workplace...it's not professional, for one. It's often annoying, for another. (of course, this said by someone whose mother took her to work sometimes...but on the other hand, I was pretty good, and I usually got put to work [it was a non-profit]; her coworkers' kids [we're all pretty much within a few years of each other] did the same; we grew up on a culture of being volunteers for the place and doing stuff like stuffing envelopes and shredding. BUT, it was also a place where clients didn't come in much and such, so there weren't really worries about it looking weird to have a bunch of kids there)

I totally agree with everything in the paragraph above!! Kids MOST DEFINITELY DO NOT belong at the office. Keep their butts at home and get someone to watch them or take them to day care. They run around, causing havoc at work, trying to get into something, yet parunts bring them in to try to show them off to other workers, thinking that their kids are soooo cyoot. NOT! And when one of the little buggers gets hurt trying to look at or pick up something at work that they shouldn't have , whose fault is it? Noooo..not the parunts, but the company gets sued.

Don't even get me started on how much par-unts at work yak on and on and on about how bad their kids are and what their brats are doing today and tomorrow and afterschool and if they wrecked the car and how little Johnny won a trophy today, and blah-blah-blah. <img src="/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Kids seem to be the ONLY focus of most of their lives, and I think it's quite sad.

I know my co-workers isolate me and don't really have a lot to do with me because:

1. I feel you should keep separate work and home life; therefore, I divulge little to no information about my person life and I don't feel the need to yak all the time in general.
2. I don't have kids, so they feel they can't relate because I am not constantly griping about what they're doing, and of course ,we know that misery loves company. Since my life is not miserable, and I think to a degree, theirs is, I can't relate to them, either.

All day long that's all I hear about, though, and it gets to be too much sometimes. Ugh.

There's a group of women in my office who stand around in the breakroom each morning for about 20 minutes re-hashing all the exciting and stupendous things their kids accomplished in the previous 24 hours. I've walked by and heard them discussing school dances, mean soccer coaches, homework, toilet training, pink eye.....I know when the account manager's daughter had her first period...every single frickin' morning.

And what's up with this obsessive need to discuss the frequency, color, density, and mass of your child's bowel movements? I know...rhetorical question...none of you get it either. I stopped by one of these enlightening conversations one morning and stated, "I walked my dog this morning. He sh*t. I picked it up with a plastic bag." The looks I got....I just don't undestand...I was trying so hard to fit in:)

they want to what the recept of a working mom and the money, but also fit in with the stay at home mommy. they cant have it both ways!!! plus in my experents they usualy just wont to step out on there hubbys to find another daddy of the day... and why should are taxes go to Paternit test?

look at it this way if you work at min. wage which it 5.15 here and you work 40hr aweek your get $206 if your a single women that cf and live on your own you cant declair head of house hold because you a woman(but a man can) you can clam youself if you make enough that you parents cant clam you. so you pay in 22% of you check to uncle sam for tax medacaid and medicare and socail surcureity (which by the time we are old enough to get there wont be any). so your left with $160.68 which leaves with 642.72 a month (4 weeks in a month) well here the cheapeat appartment will cost you about 450 amonth. that bring you down to192.72 but you have to pay your own bills. and when i lived in my appartment i had 40 for eleric 20 for water 15 for summer gas and 120 for winter no cable but it runs 55 a month and no phonebut that ran 35 basic cable month with no caller id or long disance plus gas to and from work at 2.95 per gal. are happy total of are million dollor wealth is now $117.72 for the summer and $12.72 for the winter and that is without cable phone gas for you car dr and meds or you know food!!! so the next time they B*!(# about how they can may ends meet show them your buget and how much you work so they can whine while you do all your there and everybody else share of the work and get apaid and promoted less for .0001% of what they do!!

And another thing. my father died when i was 5 and my mom worked her @$$ off doing 2 jobs the only time she took off was because one of us was in the hospital and she could not get goverment help either. I resecpt my mom because she WORKED hard and took no hand outs granted we ate them beans and potatos 2 times aday and when we had some extra money we had them 3x. and now im married cf and we still eat them but now we can have chicken 2 a week!! yeeepeee welcome to the por side a texas thank you MR govener presadent Pi$$ oh its spelled bush. my good i mean bad. (sometimes it great to be dyslectic!!!

sorry i get long winded when i am rieled up. you should actualy hear me talk to my self as i type!!!HEHEHAHA

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$5.15 is the federal minimum wage; about 1/3 of the states have a higher one, but it's still not much. Washington state has the highest minimum wage in the country - $7.63 per hour...not exactly Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.