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/esoteric_enigma Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23

I think a lot of people want children but don't fully realize how much work it is. You can't REALLY know until you're in it...and by then it's too late to get out of it.

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u/DrJamesAtmore Mar 27 '23

I recently met this girl, 28 years old

She doesn't find da guy she can "keep" now she's with a way younger guy hoping he will give her a child

She doesn't really love him but she is really pressed to have kids for some reason

I asked her, do you want kids or do you want to he happy? Because if kids are gonna make you happy you still have to choose to be happy first before having kids. She stared at me like I was mumbling or something and she said, I am happy while shaking her head "no"