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Originally Posted by suzzer99
But absolute worst case scenario, once every 2-4 years his boss might lose a couple billable hours. Unacceptable!
For someone who I'm assuming thinks of himself as liberal and open-minded, you are being awfully stubborn about simply conceding a point about
my own working environment. Just because you or I or rjoe or most of the other posters in this thread think it's perfectly reasonable for someone to take off for an hour to go run an errand, doesn't mean the entire country thinks like that; a non-trivial number of people in this country don't/can't operate like that with respect to their employment. I have a certain amount that I'm expected to produce every day/week/month/year -- is that really so foreign of a concept?
If I can take 2 hours off for voting, what about doctor and dentist visits for me, and my kids if I eventually have them, or any other of the various daily errands where it would be much more convenient
for me to do during the day? Eventually that stuff adds up, and in some jobs doing that is frowned upon --whether or not you think that's stupid/unfair/illegal doesn't matter. It happens and some of us deal with it. It's not my employer's job to make my life easier; it's their job to compensate me for my performance.