Colleague returning to work after maternity. Job rights?

[not me]

I have to admit, it has always miffed me off a little that everywhere I've worked, the women with kids, or who have had kids, don't have to work all the sh*tty shifts because of the "I've got kids" argument. I always thought "well why don't you sod off and get a job that fits in with the hours you're after rather than making those of us who don't have kids, have to work all the bank hols/lates/weekends instead of you when we're all paid the same hourly rate?!".

However, when I have kids, I intend to make full use of such excuses

I have FF and a kid, I'm a bloke!!! I had to fight for my rights to change hours! I had to reduce them, but get no special treatment for duties. I have one of the sh*tty duties in the DO that no one else wants.

I work the same hours every day at work including Saturdays when the DO staff have long gone home whilst I still have 2 bags still to deliver. I'm stuffed if I have an accident.

AND I work a damn sight harder than some of the lazy f*ckers in our DO who get paid quite a bit more than I do and still finish before me on some days!

In a modern society it is my wife that earns more than me (:evil/mad ) So I do the "household" duties which include kids

RM champion FF but when someone gets it the rest of the DO seem to think its a con! I've had one Lino say to me when I had kids we just got on with it! - Yes 25 years ago you did, the world has changed but these people haven't, they try and install their life experiences on a different society where the rules and regulations have changed!

If they are there use them! Or should we go back to the H&S situation of 25 years ago!

but as

Aprilaydee says: However, when I have kids, I intend to make full use of such excuses

not helped by thel ikes of one guy in our office
has FF and starts,leaves earlier
then does loads of OT

[TeeferTiger]

I forgot to add, I meant it always miffed me when I worked at my previous jobs in retail/call centres. Because I didn't have kids, I was lumbered with the lates/bank hols/working all summer etc. because those with kids were given the priority time off.

I can see it from both sides but it shouldn't be dumped on those who haven't got kids.

With RM, it's different. Fair enough, people are wanting their own duties etc, but you're not being rota'd to work Boxing Day, New Years Day, 9pm finishes, Every Sunday etc. instead of those that have kids/FF requests. We don't work those days anyway now.

THAT'S when it miffed me off.

RM have always moved the goalposts though and why on earth would someone want to come and knacker themselves out at RM while the kids are at work, only to be even more knackered later on?!

And my last sentence of my original post was very tongue in cheek

[billyb8]

I don't even get seniority. There are guys in my office who have been there for years and don't have their own walk, whilst there are others who have been around for only a year or so who have THEIR own. How come?

There might not have been a walk they wanted. And believe it or not some like to float????????????

[mazza111]

I hear ya April. Can't say I've ever been on the receiving end of those benefits no matter what kind of work I've been in and I've got 2 little monsters. Well not so little now. But there are those who use and abuse every situation, then when the rest of us need a little time off for a family emergency (life threatening in my case) we have to put up with BS and a good fight to get it a couple of hours off.