Chinese man fired for saying women should provide 'sex' to male coworkers for using childbirth as work excuse

Using the Chinese social media platform WeChat Moments, Li reportedly wrote about how women “tend to make trouble” by using childbirth and family care as an excuse to avoid work. He also suggested that women should provide men with “salaries” and “sex” as compensation for male employees’ supposedly increased workloads.

“The core of the issue is that you shouldn’t make male colleagues take on extra work because you need to look after your family or your child. You shouldn’t take it for granted. You shouldn’t feel at ease and justified. You shouldn’t be so shameless that you even require male colleagues to do your work for you,” Li wrote on WeChat Moments, per South China Morning Post. “I want to ask those women, ‘Why don’t you give your salaries to male colleagues?’, ‘Why don’t you have sex with male colleagues?’, and ‘Why don’t you let your child call male colleagues ‘dad’?’”

He is not in the US but in this odd place called China.

And even with the first amendment it does not mean you can not be fired because you suggest your co-workers should sexually pleasure you.

However he has a point besides the one on his head.

Parents often get special treatment because "children!"

This can add greatly to the work load of their co-workers. As single and childless I often was the person that load landed on.

As long as I got rewarded for doing things like finishing up a project when John had to leave early for Buffy's ball game or working from Christmas Eve through the day after New Year to keep the office open so everyone else could celebrate with their families I was cool with it.

What I was NOT cool with was the assumption that just because I was single and childless I would automatically fill in with no compensation.

I did have a life and plans. Because my family was overseas it took some major work to get us together. And when that time came I was off to Japan, or Tanzania, or South Korea and no I was not going to cut my vacation short because you did not plan out what you were going to do without me to fill in the holes.

Now that I have spouse, children and am the boss I do my best not to put extra work on my single childless employees because "what else do they have to do?" And if someone does go the extra mile I will make sure they get rewarded in a way that is meaningful to them. Not with a coupon for a free half gallon of skim milk. (It has been over a decade. You would think I would be over that. But nah.)

So, family - very important. But if you expect to get paid you need to do your job as well. The business needs to be willing to work with people so a balance is achieved but having a family is not your get out of jail free card for putting in the hours.

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