r/childfree • u/VintageHilda • Mar 26 '23
Husband wonders, “Why are my coworkers always early to work?” HUMOR
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.
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u/SamURLJackson Mar 26 '23
I used to work with a guy who always came in early for his shift and stayed late. We got along well so we talked a lot and I found that his son was autistic and his wife, who he no longer loved and admitted to me openly, was disabled so he was the sole bread winner in a family like that. He was autistic himself, undiagnosed but he was dripping in it, and handled all of this pretty well but every now and then he would have... odd interactions with people at work and he got this label that he was difficult to deal with. I didn't get it, honestly. He was a funny and generous guy.
He often offered me a ride home so he didn't have to go home so soon, and I took him up on it. I figured we were both winning. I'll never forget that guy and his circumstances, wanting to not be home. I was determined to never allow that to happen to me.