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No wonder Madison is losing patience with you. Any working mother with any kind of responsibility in their job would have a back-up plan should her child care fail. You can’t depend on just one person to be there all the time, every time. Emergencies come up and need to be planed for ahead of time, not at the last minute.
And, I don’t know about her but when I was working and had a meeting scheduled, I certainly didn’t have time to go around playing with my kids, trying to find someone to watch them, or have a lenghty conversation with my arch-enemy at the local mall ahead of time.
I’m sorry but "Junior Executive" (a position I’ve never heard of before) material, Sami is definitely NOT. And her saying to Madison that it should be noted she was on time was a really lame thing to say to her boss. It sure calls negative attention to her always being late. Big deal…she was on time…ONCE!
Since Rafe is working without pay, he should be available when an emergency happens. Funny how Caroline isn’t available now since she raised the kids more than Sami. But I thought Allie and Johnny were in school, so why were they home? Then there is always the Dimera household- Mary has always taken care of them. Better yet, why doesn’t EJ pay for a sitter to help with the kids?
So many possibilities!! But all part of the plot.
looks like the writers FORGOT it was a school/work day. So typical. Check a calendar once in awhile, Mar-Dar, will ya?
that Sami got her job on her own merits. Nothing qualifies her for that position. It reminds me of the saying, "It’s not what you know, but who you know that lands you certain jobs."
Seeing Sami scrambling around trying to corral her kids at the square, or where ever she happened to be, was one of the most ridiculous scenes showing complete loss of control by a mother. If you can’t manage 3 children, how on earth can you help manage a business.
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I agree. In most scenes those kids are the most well behaved kids in the world so I don’t understand why since Sami got a job they show them as destructive and not listening. I know, it’s to show the perils of a working mom but come on guys, the kids were NEVER like this before. Well, except for Johnny when he ran away from the mansion and ran to Sami and Rafe and when he found out EJ hurt Rafe.
I thought the kids were just playing around with her, not disobeying. And she was chasing them like it was a game also. But, I could be wrong.
was nice to see kids having fun and acting like real kids instead of the sit frozen not talking unless told to or looking scared to death to even move.
did anyone notice how Johnny looked totally out of it like he wasn’t even a part of the scene until it was his time to jump up and speak? Usually these twins are all involved, but I thought it was quite noticeable.
I was thinking of the day Madison went to Sami’s for a meeting and the kids were loud and crying, Sami had to leave the room and Johnny spilled orange juice all over her breakfast scones or whatever they were and her paperwork. I thought this was a repeat of that only outside.
1 an adult (ok, fine); 2 in 1st grade (maybe) and 1 still in pre-k or family care, and you decide to take on an executive position after being out of work for years, with very little experience in the position they are taking on, then what else is to be expected except failure? As far as a ‘back-up’ plan, unless a mother has a ‘built-in-babysitter’ (such as a retired grandma …. oh, that would be me or Caroline), who can be relied on 99 and 44/100’s percent of the time, you can forget last-minute telephone calls to the alternate babysitter list either. It’s either that or changing your hours to coincide with your kids’ school hours (yes, they should have been in school anyway), and also arrange for after-school care program until their non-working father can pick them up. Then, when you have no time to spend on helping them with their homework or share in their day’s progress, you can blame it on your job, and all of your kids wind up like Sami anyway, believing they were ignored, abandoned, or whatever reason comes to mind from being neglected. Go figure. Sami will never succeed in any position, because she "doesn’t know how to work."
As far as a ‘back-up’ plan, unless a mother has a ‘built-in-babysitter’ (such as a retired grandma …. oh, that would be me or Caroline), who can be relied on 99 and 44/100’s percent of the time, you can forget last-minute telephone calls to the alternate babysitter list either. It’s either that or changing your hours to coincide with your kids’ school hours (yes, they should have been in school anyway), and also arrange for after-school care program until their non-working father can pick them up.
I worked in health care, both in a hospital and home care and both had mandatory on-call. You never knew if you were going to be called in but you knew when that possibility was so you’d better have a sitter or 2 lined up in case as not having a babysitter was not an excuse not to work. Also during a disaster everyone gets called in so you’d better have a plan in place and a backup in case that happened.
A friend of mine was a single mother and an army nurse. She never knew if she was going to be deployed so she had to have childcare in place that would be available 24/7. That required more than one backup.
I had an assistant who had only one child, two-years old. Much like Sami, she was always late, would have to leave early for various reasons, or, much too often, not be able to come in at all, again for various child-related reasons.
I sat down with her several time to help her try to figure out how she could solve some of these problems and be available when I needed her. She would sit and nod her head at my suggestions but nothing would change.
Finally, I had to let her go and she argued with me about how unreasonable I was being and I just didn’t understand what it was like to be a working, single mother. While I was not single when my kids were little, I was a mother and can honestly say, I missed very few days of work because of them. Surgery was one and a couple of medical emergencies (like knocking their two front teeth out!). I couldn’t depend on my husband to care for them because he had his own business and if he wasn’t there, it couldn’t open.
Anyway, she left in a huff and I heard through the grapevine that she lost her next two jobs for the same reason. I guess some people just aren’t willing to understand that you have to be depended upon in your job and, as important as your kids are to you, you need to have alternative, alternative plans for their care.
Reading the story about your employee reminded me of a secretary we had. I was assistant supervisor and worked alternate weekends from the supervisor so the weekends I worked were mine. Someone had to be in the office at all times until 9pm so I had to cover for the secretary when she was at lunch and on breaks. Since I also had to do patient care when I was in charge that meant I had to have someone cover for me when I was in the office.
It wasn’t unusual for her husband to call 20 times each day asking where the kids shoes were, how to fix their daughter’s hair and other things like that that she should know. After her last daughter was born she was nursing and would pump so her daughter could take a bottle on weekends and when she wasn’t with her. EVERY weekend her husband would call because she wouldn’t take the bottle so he’d have to bring her to work so she could nurse. That made it difficult as I was to relieve her for lunch during breaks from my own work which was patient care. I now had to try to adjust my patient load to accomodate her daughter’s feeding schedule. On the days grandma watched her she took the bottle fine. On those days the secretary would not only take her lunch but then need time to go to the OB floor to use their breast pumps as they were electric and she liked them better than the portable hand held pump she could bring from home. So, she had her 2 15 minute breaks, 30 minute lunches then be gone another 30-40 minutes while she pumped since she needed to get "relaxed" before she would flow and that sometimes took 15-20 minutes. I often had to give up my lunch to allow her to do this.
Her husband was one that when she was working he was "babysitting". How can a man "babysit" his own children. He’s the dad watching his kids and when mom’s not available is his JOB and DUTY, not something that’s optional.
When I’d had enough I went to my boss and let her know how this was affecting my work, the work of other staff members and also patient care.
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