Originally Posted by
Suppa Hobbit Mage
One of my best data visualization analysts spawned his second child back in September. I gave him paid time off... 12 weeks for paternity leave (which is such a complete fucking joke his wife was back at work after 6 weeks). That aside, he's good people, but young. First 3 meetings I have with him coming back, literally grind to a halt in all three.
Why you ask? Because he two dreamkillers, Mika and Samson, his 3 month old and 2 year old, are going apeshit in the background. I had to have a meeting with him on the fourth day, and be like "bro I get it, you are 27 and have two new "bundles of joy". I don't GAF about that though, so can you come to meetings prepared, without children, so we can all work together for what I'm paying you 120k to do? If I hear a baby screaming in my sprint review, I'm going to loose my shit. I just expect him to be able to work during his scheduled work hours.
I'm a monster, I know. I also told the dude who's father just died that it'd been two weeks, corp policy is 5 days bereavement. I gave him two weeks. And he missed his first day back without any communication, other than at 3AM the day after that baby had a bad day. I told him fine, here's the deal - I'm a major advocate for work life balance... but for that to work, you have to communicate to me the days you need off and I will unequivocally give them to you. But you have to plan.
So sick of the feels. Father is dead in the ground two weeks, you can come back to work and not need your ass wiped every 3 minutes. Real life interferes, your fucking amazing boss said just let me know in advance and I'll clear the runway for you. But if you don't, you are fucking everyone in the equation.
