[sellickbhoy]

the future mrs SB ain't getting any younger, it's all heading south now, so we may as well rattle them all out - she's not gonna be walking down any catwalks anytime in the future regardless!!

 

i'm so glad she doesn't look in here!! LOL

[Wizard]

Wish Mrs well from Kath and Meee

[doganjo]

employers are not allowed to ask about this sort of thing in an interview, or they could get prosecuted for discrimination

This is not strictly true.  An employer may ask this question provided they ask the same question of ALL candidates, male or female.  What they cannot do is rely on that one answer in order to make a decision.

[sellickbhoy]

if i was a lawyer i think i'd soon make a mockery of a company asking a male employee if he was pregnant!!

you may ask everryone equally, but there is only one group that it's really applicalbe too

i suppose that the end of the day, this whole story comes down to the lassie involved being an absolute s**t - but i DO think the law will encourage small companies to avoid recruiting women

the exact opposite of what it was intended to do

[doganjo]

I remember away back in the 80's my first husband trying to run a small NHS Microbiology Laboratory with a very small staff.  One of the girls became pregnant and while she was on maternity leave he had to employ another girl, but he couldn't get a trained one to take up a short term post, so he had to make do with a trainee and spend his own time training her.  Then the work expanded so when the first girl came back he was able keep the second one on.  The first girl came back when her baby was a month old - in a brand new car, the baby with a childminder, she took an afternoon off soon afterwards to buy a new kitchen.  Then the second girl told Sandy she was pregnant too and was going off on maternity leave too.  She came back in a new car too, again teh baby in childcare and a couple of days later was heard speaking about her new bedroom suite, and the holiday she had booked to Spain. It rather grated on the boss having to survive on a 15 year old kitchen,  a 6 year old car to do the whole family, not one for each of us, and a caravan holiday in Yorkshire   Mind you I feel my kids did benefit from having a stay at home Mum till they were 12.

[Wizard]

What a great story Annie the sooner we get back there the better for every one I think.Lets try and get some real value back into our lives.Kath and I have been there done that but before T shirts and video's were about

[ballingall]

Annie- I bet your kids look back now and were glad that you were at home with them too. Personally I think kids get more from a parent being at home with them, although I know that's not always possible. My brother goes on about how my sister has wasted her education (she's a clever lady, and has her degree and a doctorate) because she has never worked in her field of expertise, and indeed only started working part time last year for the first time in 12 years. But, she has 4 happy well adjusted daughters who may not have every toy they want, or expensive holidays but they have had a fantastic upbringing. And she's done what she wanted with her life, so maybe she hasn't made some great discovery in the field of animal nutrition, but so what?


Beth

[Wizard]

Little story balli When Kath had our 5th baby a slip of a lass came from the Health Visitor Dept? T o shew her how to take care of a new baby! Now theres a thing have you seen anyone have a preused secondhand one.Not tellin ya wot was sed but it wasn't F O  because Kath doesn't swear but the lass had a strong command of the english language