My first salary
Monday, June 20, 2022 | 150 Views |
They would neatly type your details on a slip of paper and your salary details and deductions and put it in an envelope. Since I had just started working, there were not many deductions save for tax unlike my more experienced colleagues whose payment advice slips looked like movie credits.
This movie credits pay slip situation irked them and when month-end happened along there were long and sad faces in the workplace. This always used to baffle me until it was explained to me by a colleague.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...