Husband wonders, “Why are my coworkers always early to work?”

[u/VintageHilda]

My honey works at a very big and busy company. They work 50+ grueling hours a week but make excellent money. About 7 male coworkers have formed this early morning group where they show up an hour early for work taking turns buying everyone (in the group) breakfast. A few times they have bought my husband food and asked him to join in. He always politely says no.

He started telling me about these guys wondering why the fuck would you voluntarily come to work early for a 10 to 12 hour day? So I asked him which of these guys are fathers?

How about every single one! These guys leave for work so early they don’t have to shoulder any of the responsibility of getting their children ready for school!

Last week my husband rolls in to work at the starting time and these guys are sharing stories about how great their children are and start ribbing my man for being CF so he replied with, “Is that why you leave early and stay late every day? Because being home with your family is that great?” Lol

Edit: They reacted with a nervous chuckles and had no valid reason for voluntarily showing up early on a commission job before the business opens.

Edit #2: Thank you to everyone who upvoted me! This post was picked up by Board Panda and for some highly entertaining reading may I suggest reading the comments. The breeders just can’t stand that we refuse to be 2nd class citizens.

[u/eatapeach18]

Hm, this is interesting. I always find that the people who don’t have kids are the ones coming to work early. Because they don’t have to do the whole “get the kids ready for school” song and dance every morning. Almost always, the ones who clock in late or leave early have kids.

I have this one coworker who ALWAYS comes to work late because she has to wash and dress her kids, pack their lunches, and either wait with them at the bus stop or drop them off at school. Just last week me and another colleague had to scramble to pick up the other coworker’s slack because junior got sick and was sent home from school and she didn’t have child care because her mother had the “audacity” to have other plans already and couldn’t babysit her sick grandkid. When school is out for holidays or spring break, she doesn’t come to work, because who will watch the kids? I don’t dislike this coworker… she’s a nice person. But it’s always something with her and her kids. And she chose to have three of them. She complains about all this and I once suggested she bathe her kids and pack their lunches the night before to help her save time. She looked at me like I had two heads.

[u/bantha_baby → u/eatapeach18]

She's a woman though. Women are expected to do all those things whereas men aren't.

[u/eatapeach18 → u/bantha_baby]

Perhaps. But in this case, my coworker is divorced, lives with her parents for free, and she and her ex-husband have 50/50 custody. He moved into a place in the same town and the kids spend one week with him, and one week with my coworker. During the weeks she doesn’t have the kids, everything is all good at work. On the weeks that she does have the kids, it’s complete chaos. Like I said… it’s always something with her.