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Wife scolded for sitting down at work.

My wife just recently got a new job at a daycare. She enjoys working with children, but for the couple weeks she has had this job she comes home every day and tells me how awful it is. The caregivers yell at the children and yank them by the arm, some of the kids have hand foot mouth disease and don't get sent home. There is an ant infestation in one of the corners of a room, and ants were crawling all over one of the kids. She told me just yesterday she had been on her feet for hours, and tried to take a seat because she was tired. One of the managers comes up to her and says “Do you see anyone else sitting? You need to engage with the children.” This pissed me off so much. I hate that she has to go through this. She is…


My wife just recently got a new job at a daycare. She enjoys working with children, but for the couple weeks she has had this job she comes home every day and tells me how awful it is. The caregivers yell at the children and yank them by the arm, some of the kids have hand foot mouth disease and don't get sent home. There is an ant infestation in one of the corners of a room, and ants were crawling all over one of the kids. She told me just yesterday she had been on her feet for hours, and tried to take a seat because she was tired. One of the managers comes up to her and says “Do you see anyone else sitting? You need to engage with the children.” This pissed me off so much. I hate that she has to go through this. She is finding a better job soon, I just wanted to rant about the ridiculous “no sitting” stigma at workplaces. If she puts up with all the awful things wrong with your work center, she sure as hell deserves to sit down for a minute.

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