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This company is giving women a day off for their periods, which is perk we can get behind
Hello Giggl ^ | July 15, 2017 | Karen Fratti

Posted on 07/15/2017 4:46:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 07/15/2017 4:46:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I remember some male stand-up comedian (could have been Tim Allen) say “PMS means Punch-My-Spouse”


2 posted on 07/15/2017 4:55:58 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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I don’t hire women of child baring or menstrual age. Middle-aged women are far more reliable. I have a younger woman in a key position. Over the last 10 years, she’s had 2-3 month time-outs for having babies. She is off a lot due to her kids now. She’s really good at her job and everybody loves her, but I won’t do this again.


3 posted on 07/15/2017 4:57:26 PM PDT by umgud
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So if I identify as a woman I can get 2 extra days of vacation a month?


4 posted on 07/15/2017 5:04:48 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And these same women wonder why there is a ‘wage gap’. SMH


5 posted on 07/15/2017 5:05:38 PM PDT by reaganaut (In a flash, we went from normal people tolerating abnormal people to abnormal people jailing normal)
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Medical leave shouldn’t be based on First Day of Period or periods at all. It should be based on disabling conditions.

I am fortunate that, although I had regular cycles from age 12 to 52 (except when I was pregnant or lactating) I never once had menstrual cramps. It would have been unjust to give me one day a month off for no reason, just because I’m female.

OTOH, some women really would have needed two days off. Some men with recurring conditions -— for instance, a need for dialysis, regularly scheduled therapies for muscular skeletal conditions, etc —might need more.

So, no. Not First Day if Period, but something tailored for both sexes and a wider variety of conditions.


6 posted on 07/15/2017 5:05:45 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("I'm a lumberjack, and I'm all right.")
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Take a pill and go to work.

There’s a study out there that says that when women hang out together they start to menstruate around the same time. Consider a business when all the women call in crampy the same day. LOL. May they all cramp on week-ends and holidays.


7 posted on 07/15/2017 5:05:48 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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Because women deserve to be treated exactly the same as men.


8 posted on 07/15/2017 5:05:54 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: freedumb2003

Come on. Everybody knows men can’t become women :)


9 posted on 07/15/2017 5:07:27 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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1. This makes women seem more vulnerable/weak/sick than men, undermining feminism’s “women are equal or better”. You can be pretty much equal or catered to snowflakes in need of coddling, pick one.
This isn’t a sexist statement, since I’m a woman.
2. This will lead to employers continuing to bias toward hiring older women versus younger ones who may need maternity leave and now this type of leave. Obamacare already incentivized hiring someone old enough to rely on Medicare.


10 posted on 07/15/2017 5:10:51 PM PDT by tbw2
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And these are called “periodic” vacations, I suppose?


11 posted on 07/15/2017 5:11:19 PM PDT by sourcery (Non Acquiescit: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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My wife was always more reliable at calculating the checking account balance than I - except occasionally, which at a certain point I came to realize always correlated with the calendar . . .

12 posted on 07/15/2017 5:11:32 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (A press can be “associated,” or a press can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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The new Bruce Jenner holiday


13 posted on 07/15/2017 5:11:48 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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Yeah sure, only one day now but where does it end?!


14 posted on 07/15/2017 5:12:39 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pamprin?


15 posted on 07/15/2017 5:12:57 PM PDT by piasa
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Why would a company hire women when they get more work out of men?

That’s going to be the same whether this is implemented or not, so our wackadoodle government will continue to force companies to hire women, which hurts all of us.


16 posted on 07/15/2017 5:14:16 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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I didn’t get this perk. I want reparations for all the years not being given this.


17 posted on 07/15/2017 5:17:03 PM PDT by dforest
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If you can’t do the job, you shouldn’t have the job.


18 posted on 07/15/2017 5:20:30 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t know what to say about this... I can see it adding to the problems women face in being taken seriously. On the other hand, when I was young, I would not have turned this down because I had a tendency to vomit and then pass out on Day One.


19 posted on 07/15/2017 5:21:14 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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Come on. Everybody knows men can’t become women :)

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Oh come on. Everyone knows men can menstruate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoUurv19yF8


20 posted on 07/15/2017 5:22:08 PM PDT by Twotone
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