This pisses me off to no end. My husband has a co-worker who constantly uses the fact that she has two children as an excuse to get out of doing the work that's required of her. It's as if she's the only parent there. Another co-worker decided two weeks before the new school term was to start that she did not want to return from her maternity leave.

People like this give a bad name to working mothers who would never dream of inconveniencing their co-workers or requesting special privileges because of it.