Employee asks girlfriend to take son to school so he can start work early, dismisses her when she gets a warning about attendance from her boss

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• Am I wrong for being upset that helping with my partner’s son led to a work warning and he wouldn’t acknowledge it?

  

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• Coparenting should be a team effort, and one where each can take turns to make certain sacrifices in the workplace in order to ensure that they can keep up with childcare duties. Even if parents are lucky to have an understanding employer, there are limits to the grace they will be given for the sake of their kids. The bottom line is that a manager is going to care more about doing the job than a child's daily schedule.

  Unfortunately, it is very easy for responsibilities between those caring for children while working to become unbalanced. When someone is super focused on work, they may not care so much that their partner is suffering for picking up the slack at home.

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• Working parents and guardians can be especially vulnerable to being punished for doing their own childcare when things change in the workplace, whether that is a new manager or a whole new job. This is a time when making a good impression is vital, and shirking responsibility cannot be a good look, even when it is only replaced by other responsibilities. It is one of those times when a coparent should be able to step up and take on more with the kids.

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