i didnt askmy boss to cover.i asked other coworkers. i work in a restaurant. i asked other hosts to cover for me. thats how it works when u need a day off. i cover for people all the time (the 1 day i dont work) myboss just said he would find coverage for me since im a good worker..then he writes me up. i dont get it

shhhhh.

I would like to see you shove a baby out of your rectum. That's a fairly illogical position to take really. Men are not designed to carry and birth a child, Women are. They are designed to handle the pain that this act causes, however this does not mean that the pain they suffer in general is considerably less and it takes more for them to feel pain in general. That is also a fairly absurd position (not that you were making that assertion, just a note). I like how allot of these types of things devolve into a 'well he is a man, therefore ebil!' 'he can't understand' 'i'd like to see him shove a baby out of his XYZ orifice' and on the same hand then claim sexism. It's like those commercials featuring the lovable but rabidly stupid man child husband who is made to look like an idiot, lazy, fat, etc while the wife is not. There is allot of sexism these days, it's just usually directed towards men. I am not claiming that women are bereft of this phenomena and that all men are kind, and treat women as equals... but it is far less skewed than most make it out to be. The bottom line is, we don't have enough information. The job could be something that the loss of one 'Cog' is too much and cannot be had. It could also not be. The boss could be male or female, we don't know. The boss could be a jerk, the boss could be under pressure from their boss(es) and if more people miss work without proper notice they get written up. They could have very archaic and draconic work policies, who knows. The end is, I find it passing strange that someone would say FML to this situation, considering this friend aparently is alone and has no family to be with them. Seems a bit off to me.

it's still not fair for these guys to type things that are disrespectful to this woman because she wanted to be there for her friend, who had no one else. it's also unfair that these guys are acting like the women giving birth who can't handle it or who need someone to be with them are just overreacting, and they're sick of women bitching about things like this, and getting special treatment while going through PAINFUL labor. and if they really cant handle it they shouldn't have kids. No, they don't understand, if they did they wouldn't type rude things like this. i was not talking about all men, i was responding to the guys who typed whatever i was responding to. and if a woman said the same thing i would also feel the same way about it. i shouldn't even have to say that as a disclaimer.