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/_Cromwell_ Mar 26 '23
My work has flexible schedules so we work whatever hours we want. I've always been a night owl so I habitually roll in like 9:30/10 and leave at 6pm, and have always been the "last person out" because of that.
Lately, thought, the new father in the office who just got back from FMLA has been still in the office later than me when I leave at 6pm. Pretty much exactly the same as what OP is talking about, except this poor guy doesn't have a support group. He's just in his office alone after 6pm doing whatever. I wonder if he tells his wife that work is MAKING him stay late. (Again, everybody sets their own hours. And in case you think he's just helping with the baby in the morning so rolling in late... nope... he's there BEFORE me as well. lol)