Guilty Pleasure
Brilliant_Rock
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I'm not sure where I stand on maternity leave - I've written several posts without hitting submit. However, I will say that the idea of "I lived through it, so you can too" is utterly ridiculous. Hazing, pregnant women smoking and drinking, children riding in the open bed of pickup trucks, slavery, no voting rights, phosphates in laundry detergent... sure, people survived that stuff, but that is not a good reason for maintaining the status quo.
Also, I'd like to give a possible reason why the year replacement fix might clash with the American way of thinking. If you can leave your job for a year and be replaced by a younger, lower paid person that easily... well why wouldn't the company want to just keep the replacement permanently? The company is there to make money, not to provide jobs. The American work mentality is that you want to be indispensible, not replaceable. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, just how it is for a lot of people.
Also, I'd like to give a possible reason why the year replacement fix might clash with the American way of thinking. If you can leave your job for a year and be replaced by a younger, lower paid person that easily... well why wouldn't the company want to just keep the replacement permanently? The company is there to make money, not to provide jobs. The American work mentality is that you want to be indispensible, not replaceable. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, just how it is for a lot of people.