| Comment | We've just had our 20 week scan for the baby. All grand.
Anyway, my wife's got a big fancy fellowship which covered her mat leave and well beyond, and the uni we work which makes a huge song and dance about equality and more women in science, is being *The Biggest Cunt* about the whole thing. We're pretty *on it* when it comes to paper trails, but they're still obstinate. You can have X on paper, but the moment it involves paying a penny, suddenly the structure and function of language apparently escapes them. "What does 'confirmed', even really mean? This word 'supply', how nebulous. 'Pregnant', that could mean many things"
You can see how folk who don't like kicking off end up getting screwed over; they try and do you, or not pay as much as possible, and then it's only when you kick off they go 'oh yeah, silly us' (if you're lucky). It's not discrimination - yet - but they're clearly adept at finding the exact line and not a millimetre beyond it. |
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