...except you said it much more nicely than I would have!

As a person who has chosen to not have children, I hate it when people think that parents should have special treatment. That I'm expected to take the shit schedules 'cause I don't have kids to put on or get off the bus.

Once, at my former job, there was a situation in which another worker or I would have to travel to the other side of the state for a couple of days. Neither of us wanted to go. The other worker kept complaining that since he and his wife recently adopted a baby, he shouldn't have to go. He actually followed me through the office trying to make me feel guilty, suggesting that I should volunteer to go because of his baby. I finally told him that he should have thought of these situations before he went out a bought a baby. Heh...guess I could have been a bit more tactful...

I have no problem with parental leave; I get it that new parents want to spend time with their spawn. But while the happy little family is busy bonding away, someone else has to cover their work. That someone ends up being me, at least for a bit of it, and with no extra money. As my workload increases, my sympathy for parents decreases.