I think that the knife can cut both ways. When I worked at a bank where I was the only person who was married with a child, my co workers would act as if I were trying to get out of doing things after work. They would have meetings that would start at 5:30pm.
Everybody with children knows that most day- cares close their doors at 6:00pm. Yet, every time there was a meeting, they would ask if I was going to stay for it. When I said "No", they would say, "oh."
I think that everybody has to respect the fact that people have lives outside of work, whether they have a spouse, and children or not. Work should be a small part of what makes you the person that you are. I use to say, "If I give everything to this job, what I am supposed to take home to my family?"
Shoot, even doctors are starting to take work less seriously (not that it's a good thing). They'll have you waiting in that room for an hour or more nowdays.
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