Poor guy, at least he did what he could.
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Not sure what is more depressing: missing your childβs birthday or posting about missing your childβs birthday.
Missing your child's burthday after already having missed it all the years before and your child already complained about it.
Photo's of him with her as a baby 'cos that's the last time they interacted in person
As an old medic and firefighter, I missed my share of family things. Holidays were for spending time with your closest coworkers in the ER. New Year's Eve, (my wedding anniversary), often meant spending quality time crawly inside a car wreak to get someone out alive. My one daughter's high school graduation I was paged out for some little old lady's heart attack in the middle of her party.
So, was I a bad father or am I the victim of a bunch of narcistic people that decided to have the worst day of their lives and dialing 911 to ruin my any and all 4 of my daughter's special occasions?
You sacreficed your family time for the good of the community, which is a worthwile and selfless thing to do.
The post op shared is probably not about a person who sacreficed his family time for the good of the community or as a selfless act but rather out of greed for the paycheck at the end of the month.
How does transportation work when you were paged? Do you just take your own vehicle everywhere or did you leave the rest of your family to find their own way home?
This was a rural setting. So scheduling worked a bit different from it does in the big city.
First, we had just 11 people to provide 24/7/365 service. So, we would work 12hr shifts a week on as primary to respond first during the day. After a week of that you would move to the 12hr night shift for a week. Then you become secondary rig for 2 weeks. This meant you could stay home and only respond if the primary rig was busy. But you couldn't leave town. And being a rural service, a second rig wasn't always needed. So you could do birthday parties and such, but you might need to randomly. Or maybe you made only one call all day. Then you became tertiary and would only respond to All Hands On Deck emergency. You could even leave town and go shopping.
Only one time did my family witness me working call. We were headed out of town for Thanksgiving and there was a car accident-- a rollover in the ditch. My daughters got wide-eyed as I drove past the deputy controlling traffic and headed into the scene. We got close, I parked the car and jumped out and ran down the ditch. The car was on it's side and the fire department was just finishing up securing the car. And I climbed in to start caring for the patient. The 2 EMT-Bs working that day were getting busy organizing the extrication and first aid supplies, (we suspected a broken leg). The boys had fun cutting the roof off enough and rolling the dash to free the patient, and we got them out and loaded into the ambulance. I watched the rig drive away, walked back the car got in, and we drove to Grandma's house.
Interestingly, after that none of my Daughters ever complained about daddy missing a softball game or play ever again. When I had to skip out on the one Daughter's graduation party, somebody asked her where I was running off to, I heard her laugh and tell them it happens all the time and I would be back in an hour or so.
One of the nicest parts of going from rural to a city was turning in that damn pager.
I do miss sleeping at night on shift, though.
Yeah, that pager runs your whole life and controls what you can and cannot do out here in the wilds. I hated that dispatch would hit every pager in the county all summer about any little weather watch. I mean come on! It's just a watch. Page me when a tornado actually hits. Until then, let me sleep.
I thought about going to the city. Better schedule and more money and more calls. But somebody has to be out here in the hinterlands. There just ain't enough of us anywhere, city or country.
You stay safe and party on!
So many people are ragging on this guy, but they don't understand what it's like to have 131 middle managers sing you happy birthday before they go splurge their per diem on two mai tai's and try to get the waitress, who's actually your daughter's age, to drink one.
My wife's and my 12th anniversary is this week... and she reminded me (again πβπ¦) that I usually miss our anniversaries because I'm out fucking mailboxes every night.
Not helped this year that there are still mailboxes in the world.
So I improvised instead of figuring out a solution.
This year, instead of making my wife sad, I wrote "I was at my own wedding" on every mailbox just before I fucked it.
If my wife isn't satisfied with this solution, that's her problem, not mine. I'm not here to compromise with things that aren't those fuckable mailboxes.
Moments like this remind me how lucky I am that the mailboxes I fuck can't move or talk while I tell them about my wife and then fuck them. It's like they're forced to be there.
We are all mailbox fuckers. For some people, shirking fatherhood is their mailbox fucking. For me, fucking a mailbox is my mailbox fucking ... cheers guys!
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Looking forward to the posts in ten years on aitah "my daughter told me i was a horrible father and cut all contact"
I was at a local live show. The singer was talking about how she sacrificed so much to make the show, and tonight is her daughter's birthday which she is missing.
Without missing a beat, a highly intoxicated woman slur-shouted "YOU'RE A TERRIBLE MOTHER!!!"
It was like all the air was sucked out of the room and we were in the vacuum of space and could not hear a single vibration of sound. The rest of the show was super low energy.
Was she wrong though?
What gives people feelings of power
Forcing your coworkers to sing happy birthday to your daughter, whose birthday your missing, during a meeting that already could've been an email.
Posting about it on LinkedIn
You decide!
Fuck, dude. I just hope this is a satire account and some doctored image.
I work with tech bros.
They flex nonstop about how many life events they miss to be at work. It's like a badge of honor to say stupid shit like "Ah my 4 YO is in the ER but I know how important this meeting is..."
βAh my 4 YO is in the ER but I know how important this meeting isβ¦β
And the meeting is just some dumbass monthly progress review where section heads brag about what 'they' (their team) accomplished in the last month, with at least half of it being bullshit, exaggeration, or preemptively taking credit for what they're probably totally going to do next month. Nothing would change if the meeting was entirely cancelled and skipped.
It's all about quantity in corporate. Performative employees get further quicker compared to quiet ones that actually deliver quality output.
I have missed work events to be at something that's important to my kids and I'll continue doing that. In 20 years the only ones who will remember late hours and time spent at the office are my children.
When my coworkers plan meetings at noon I tell them to have fun without me cause that's when I eat lunch. They don't do that anymore.
Right. Or Friday after 2pm. Fuck off with your work shit, some of us want to leave for the weekend.
We have a 'Lunch & Learn' at noon every other Friday... "No Actual Lunch Provided". There's no set agenda, just for people in IT throughout the company to get together and talk about anything tech related they want to discuss. It doesn't even have to be work related.
It actually sounds like a fun meeting that I'd love to attend, but... Friday is my Pad Thai day, and I'm not missing that.
Super American and super gross.
It is gross, but he's from the UK
Well then, he qualifies as an honorary American!
So much for keeping her off the pole.
Cut to 20 years later "Why does my daughter never visit doesn't she know how much I sacrificed?"
"I gave her a whole slide at the beginning of the deck where people still pay attention! Kids are so ungrateful these days"
I was angry until I noticed what community this was posted to.
That's one of the saddest things I've ever heard
I see this as they are so inefficient and bad at their job that they have to work all the time. Or they are so poorly respected that they aren't allowed the time to take off work.
They should be shamed and made fun of every time they say shit like this.
Middle managers are a waste of resources.
Wow. What a douchebag.
Probably no one there wants to be at your shitty meeting anyway. Go be with your daughter and donβt make the rest of those assholes act like they care about your bullshit. Fuck this guy.
I am blessed to have my current job. It was my daughters birthday earlier this week and on the morning of her birthday she came to me (I WFH btw) a bit upset as the plans she had made for the day had fell through as both her friends cancelled.
I was able to book that PM off work with 90 minutes notice and have it approved. Daughter and I had a great day :)
The comments are equally deranged
Great idea Rick. Well done!!
Very wholesome post π And really great idea!
Happy 12th birthday to your daughter ππ Thatβs such a lovely and thoughtful gestureβso adorable! Sheβll definitely remember that one.
I hope they are satire and/or LLM generated slop.
LLM generated slop.
The good ones are. I best most are just the suggested auto-replies that appear under the post that people use because they're too lazy to read/type anything themselves. Comments on that site are nearly all just another way to trigger one's own profile to show up in others' feeds one more time than it would have otherwise.
Ah yes, supporting the people behind by forcing you to work on your child's birthday.
"Growing up, my dad was always there for me, he would record strangers singing me happy birthday and sometimes even come home to see me!"
But will his daughter ever be able to recreate the SEGMENT MANAGER memories? Hmm?
I missed a major life event one time to travel for work. Top ten dumbest thing I ever did. I don't remember a damn thing about the trip, still remember missing the anniversary though.
What a waste of a human life.
It's apparent that his daughters birthday is important to her. If he or they supported or even slightly cared the people behind it he wouldn't be missing his daughters birthday.
Fuck this corporate white washing bullshit.
This person sucks. Priorities in life wrong
Note to self, never work for or with rick
