(aww..!!..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

How can somebody who bludges off the tax payer claim to have a track record with flexitime?
Seems that the rest of us have been paying for you to raise your kids for the last fifteen years.
When I am elected PM people like you will not have that choice.

But why did Frog make no mention of the environmental benefits of flexible working hours? Aren’t the Greens going to take the credit for reducing peak hour congestion (on roads and buses)? Or have the Greens become accidental environmentalists?

i have a bit of a track record in that area..

and i feel so privileged to have spent the last thirteen years focussed on raising my son..

the delights have been many..and are ongoing..

he is a young man now..and i find i am having to re-jig..but that’s fine..

(and before that the years i spent raising my daughter..)

and apart from everything else..i owe my daughter a debt of gratitude..

‘cos it is because of her..i stopped being a junkie..

when the responsibility of caring for her was handed/forced on me..

i knew there was no way i could attend to the inherent demands of both..with any degree of success..

(both are fairly full-time..and don’t mix at all well..)

so i came off ‘the nasty’..and stayed off..

and…i know that many men have not..and will not ever..experience what i have..

(the childraising..!..not the junk..you don’t need to do that..)

and that’s more than kinda sad..

so guys..grab this new right with both hands..

tip the hat to sue kedgley..for making it happen..

and meet your nipper at the school-gate..and walk home with them..

go and hang out in borders/the library with them..

just ‘be with them’.. really

(ahem..!..theschool gate meeting would not be appreciated by your average 13 yr

old..i hasten to add..

he’s past that now..

mates rule..!

(and this is as it should be..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

Something else for you to whip up histeria about big bro and co.

Why worry, this is simply another feel good piece of social engineering, I can just see this…

“Boss, can I talk to you about flexible working hours”
“Sure, what do you want to ask”
“I would like to work from home if possible”
“Don’t you think that might be a little difficult given that we are a retail operation?”

This piece of legislation is a waste of time, all employers need to do is pretend to give consideration to the request and then deny it.

Basicly I can now go up to an employer and say: I want to work from 9am-4pm on thursday and friday and even if they dont need me they have to hire me. Thats the road we are going down.