A family dinner recently, talking with my brother and his daughter.
Daughter tells me that her mother (brother's ex-wife) has been told by her employers that her work-hours are now 7am to 5pm, 6 days a week. Plus occasional overtime as they decide. If she doesn't like it, too bad. Of course, she's whinging about it.
Brother and I looked at each other. I said: "Welcome to the real world." He just nodded: "Welcome to the real world."
That's simply the job situation in New Zealand. Yes, employers are crying out for staff - however they're very slow to hire, and they'd rather hire new people as casuals for the first 3-6-12 months. That's because it's an absolute bastard to fire shit-awful employees (thanks to the Labor party being in government several years back).
If they make it through the trial period: then they might get offered full-time employee status. Maybe. Maybe they'll just become a semi-permanent casual, constantly being renewed until they fuck up.
It seems to be biting her in the butt. Now she's not insulated from the job market by having a slave-man to bring in the money plus do the dirty work around the home. Never expected that when you constantly abused and neglected him, did'ya?
In general, women - and married women especially - believe they are entitled to a man's labor, energy and resources simply because they are women. No remuneration from the woman to the man is required. Even suggesting such a thing is "demeaning" to the woman. It is good to see a man escape from that destiny from time-to-time. It ain't easy because these days boys and men are raised to believe that as well.
ReplyDeleteI am speaking as an older guy who has been married more than twenty years. Most of them spent firmly in the Blue Pill world.