Innapropriate Interview Question??

[smokey the elder]

This is a classic example where tone of voice can't come across!

Anyway, I think the question is 100%, Grade A bogus!

[Cataholic]

So sue me.

How can I contemplate suing you when I am, apparently, so distraught about the comments made in the tipping thread? LOL...it is all a bunch of word games to me, most of the time.

I don't care that you are wrong, or right, or mexican. Why would I? I am pretty confident of who I am, and would presume others are, too. You included.

[jennielynn1970]

FMLA - Family Medical Leave Act - requires certain employers to provide unpaid leave of up to 12 weeks per year if needed for a serious personal medical condition or to care for a seriously ill family member or to care for a newborn, newly adopted or foster child. You must return to the same or equivalent job upon release.

Believe it or not...any you get over and above that ...such as any employer paid leave...is your employer doing more than the law requires.

I still think it sucks. I mean, how far behind is our society when it comes to the way women are still treated in the work place. Having to take unpaid leave to give birth to a child... it's just wrong. When I lived in Sweden, the mom and the dad got to split the maternity leave, paid, for a year. Salaries were higher there (but then again so were the taxes). That was about 15-20 years ago, so I have no idea how it has changed, but it was a socialized system, and workers were treated differently, and every one had medical coverage as well. Don't see that happening any time soon in the USA.

Our district definitely takes advantage of putting you back in the "equivalent" job. They will put the screws to you any way they can.

Last year, our superintendent received a 12% raise, and then froze the budget in the entire district so that no supplies, books, or anything could be bought from January until the new fiscal year in July.

[smokey the elder]

Unfortunately, the U.S. is no longer the world leader in women's rights. Along with science, math, health care, life expectancy, etc, etc.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Unfortunately, the U.S. is no longer the world leader in women's rights. (

Perhaps parts of the US lead the way...Montana for example but....