Unless you're working on a project together and they're not pulling their weight or you're a clerical worker that has to share phone duties with them, then it is no skin off your nose when they come in, leave or take a break.

Single people w/no children are treated like 2nd class citizens in the workplace. They are the ones usually passed-over when a promotion is due.

And there's no EOE directive or legal grounds or precedent for single people with no kids in the workplace to do anything about it.

I do understand your comments. However, I am a single mother, yet most always manage to come into work early, usually take lunch in front of the computer while doing work, rarely take my allowed breaks and often stay late. If I do need to leave early, for whatever reason, I always send in a leave absense form and let my supervisor know.

Now, my co-worker, who has no children usually comes in late (with her biscut from Hardees). She then slowly eats breakfast and shortly afterwards goes to a thirty minute break (we are allowed 10) comes back, leaves not long after to another long break (she smokes). She then goes to a lunch which is usually twice the allowed time frame (1 and 1/2 hours vs 45 minutes). She then takes two to three additional long breaks and always leaves 15 to 30 minutes early. WHATZUPWITDAT? Just be assured, its not the harried moms who are taking advantage of the situation.

meowmel