Bang goes that idea

[ailbhe]

Well, Rob and I aren't going to get to go out. He worked late last night / this morning so will have to get to bed early tonight, and tomorrow he's scheduled to work late again.

Keeping track of his overtime doesn't help much because he never takes the time off in lieu for normal stuff, he just uses it for appointments and similar. So the domestic side of things never gets caught up.

WHY is work the ultimate priority for everyone? Even when it's past 1 am and you're expected in work at 8:30 am? It doesn't seem *right* that he can't schedule his TOIL for sleeping in, rather than having to eat into our one realistic chance to go out as a couple since four weeks before Linnea was born.

Plus, I've just discovered that my mother-in-law has a key to my house, without my having known about it.

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I think that there's a strong cultural meme over here about work that I'd kind of hoped had not set in in other parts of the world, but perhaps that was naïve of me. Anyway, there seems to be a whole cluster of really potent concepts that collude to make people feel as if they have to work as much as required at any time at any sacrifice and that makes employers feel that it's okay or even necessary to take advantage of that. It's something I tend to get very ranty about, so it's probably best not to talk about extensively for me this morning. You have my sympathies for your loved ones falling victim to it, though (and for the ways in which that's impacting you).

The key thing is kind of alarming. That would be a pretty big breach of trust to me, if okoshun gave someone a key without mentioning it to me. We've given keys to lots of people, but we always mention it, and we have a sort of standing policy about it.

[ailbhe]

"Give" or "loan for an afternoon"? Rob thought he'd done the latter, apparently.