A new study shows more than half of father's are worried taking this new paternal leave will hurt their careers. What will the feminists say to that one. Wake up and smell the coffee people. It's not all sunshine puppy dogs and flowers in the real world. When you step out for a year or even 6 months your role goes. Simple as. People step up and take over and when you return your boss of old then has trouble finding you something to do. This is how a competitive world works and I'd not take paternal leave. I didn't take any time at all off for my first and had 2 weeks hols booked for secondment that was it. Why should the snowflake generation Swan round feeling entitled while we cover their arses at work?
I took two months paternity leave for the second. It was great. Paterntiy leave in Germany has been around for a few years, but is still patchy. Don't seem to be any problems with maternity leave though.
Have you hit the glass ceiling? Was there a Chinese guy at your desk saying **** off I working when you got back? Would you have noticed it if you were further down the pecking order. The reality is discrimination can come from a number of different levels. American companies love succession plans. Who's next in line, they don't wait for you to apply. They pick who is going to get the job years in advance and they compete over it. This is spreading over the place.
It depends partly on the size of the company. If the company has reached a certain size then it can usually be covered, both lower down and further up the scale. In smaller companies it can be more of a problem, but then you can also just hire someone short-term to cover the period off.
Yeah i guess that's true. Often it's the I give some of your role here and some there and by the time you are back it might be totally different. Of course that might be of benefit to sometimes.
I don't know what the rules in England are but over here, the emplyoer is legally required to provide you with your old job or one which is comparable, so it may not be the same. I don't know how much controversy there is around what constitutes as being "comparable", but I haven't heard anything. To be fair, the system seems to work quite well over here.
I'm sure it's the same after all the lizard overlord Merkel is in charge according to Boris Johnson. I think the worry is progression all the time with these things. I think that's an Americanism too. Move up every 2 years or you are a failure.
Germany is culturally further away from America than Britain, so I guess that could be more of an issue (assuming you're in the sort of job at all). Generally it's just seen as a pause and not an issue; it just takes correspondingly longer.
Yes the works council stuff is radically different. In Britain it'd be a fight every day. In us they'd call in the cia.
Yes. I heard it as you reach you level of incompetance. I remember one guy when I was a young engineer. Fairly useless, predisposed to inaction and covering his arse and talking a good game. He was a engineering team lead when I started out. He was promoted to a factory lead.. that was "ok" then during that time his inaction as an engineer lead him to be responsible for shipping out lots of machines and jobs to a low cost country. In short he never automated a thing, his best efforts were clustering a few small machines around to allow a couple less guys run them and lots of drawings of the same crap equipment linked together with conveyors. Anyway... as a result of moving all the equipment he was promoted to production manager. He lasted 18months and was fired. This is in direct contrast to the other engineering team lead who did every major project going and refused the promotion to area lead as he was not interested in the hassle and stay doing what he loved longer. An interesting contrast. Knowing what your limitations are is important.
Yeah- that's the usual definition. I just adapted it for context. It's an interesting idea. You could adapt it quite well to footballers.
