jarbaby,
I’m not sure what you are getting at here. You pitted catsix’s behavior. Justifiably in my mind. She recognized her shortcomings, explained herself, and promised to do better. win-win. You look like someone who saw a problem and took steps to correct it. Catsix looks like someone willing to take a look at the situation and attempt correction. No one really looks like an ass (except gobear, who has spent years apparently pretending to be gay when his true desire seems to be watching naked women mudwrestle 
Gobear, the straights are handing out electric blankets this month, come over to the dark side).
No, you didn’t get her to say she thought her coworkers who skipped work to sit by the pool with umbrella drinks using their kids as an excuse probably had perfectly good reasons. I’m going to go out on a limb here - if she KNOWS they are skipping work and using their kids as an excuse, she shouldn’t be changing her mind - that behavior sucks (she should, however, stop pissing in other people’s threads about family leave and open her own pit threads to pit these co-workers – who richly deserve pitting - and what she is likely to discover is that other people will join her pile on to pit their own irresponsible co-workers - with and without children).
