I’m pretty sure that the baby is a supporting factor at most if not completely irrelevant. Likely the boss made joke about thing that was going to happen anyway. Only way I see it being mayor factor is the boss knows if coworkers current salary won’t support his family he will look job elsewhere. Avoid loosing good enough employee could easily be worth of giving a preemptive raise. That still wouldn’t be discrimination of childless people, just normal business resource management.
Oooh I wonder about the ex girlfriend one.
It's not discrimination, but it is pretty stupid to give somebody a raise based on anything other than their actual merit as an employee (Assuming we're getting the whole story here.)
Poor Pink_Skink just isn't nearly as unhinged as he needs to be for Reddit.
It cracks me up that this guy probably talks in much the same manner as this at work. Maybe not full equating the family man having a second child with "dumping loads in tinder dates", but oh boy, I bet it comes out to some extent. Not exactly conducive to being considered a 'team player', bud.. not to mention that openly demonstrating that you consider your job more important than family life is a great way to be taken for a sucker by your employer.
That is true, the whole story is that once you have kids you can't just fuck off out of a job ever again. Any money lost has to be made up for. Not working for a little while, quitting in a blaze of glory, etc is an option when you do not have dependents. There are bad parents out there that let their kids go hungry, but most parents take their responsibility very seriously. Raises don't go to fathers just because they need money, it is because they usually take their jobs much more seriously as their family grows. They might be looking for a higher paying job as a result, but value stability since changes in commutes/insurance/whatever can shake up their family life. Giving a raise is a good idea as a long-term strategy.
I knew a woman like this, she would openly pout and sometimes even huff or make snide comments when the topic of parental leave or FMLA came up, and was constantly making nasty remarks about how her dogs were smarter than coworkers' kids, etc. One time she even blew up in front of the whole department having a temper tantrum because FMLA didn't apply to her mutts. She would come in last and leave first because she felt she was owed the time for all the times coworkers with kids had taken an FMLA day to take a sick kid to the doctor. And then she was always whining that she got the worst reviews and smallest salary increase possible every year, and blamed it on the fact that she was childfree and a victim of discrimination.
Indeed. If you lose a married employee, it's likely because they've found a better place to slot into at another company. You know, to some extent, their worth, and you know their position within your hierachy and probably have a good idea as to what they could strike for outside.
I sympathize with the doctors, because all these various fart-huffing people, who think they're almost transhumanist/more advanced than regular people, they all end up behaving more animalistically than the plebeians they look down on. It's not unfair to assume that a proud CF husband will divorce his spayed wife as soon as she gets her first facial wrinkle, marry a woman 10+ years younger, and then make babies while his ex looks on and impotently rages.
Family men and fathers are without a doubt the absolute best employees to have as an employer. Does OP really think the personal freedom of being child-less would really come without any social cost? lmao
Yeah everything about the Hippocratic oath said in this thread flies out the window once those power words are spoken
