I took the kids to the zoo today – in a fit of good planning made sure it was the hottest day o’ the year so they were sweaty and grumpy by the end. One of our zoo-going-friends actually stood in the mister till she was full-on soaked and we thought “More power to ya”.So then we bought them McDonald’s ice cream (one dollar) on the way home and I found someone’s old Daily News on a table (free) and read this GREAT story about how CBS in NY kept a woman sports anchor.The long and the short of it: Ryan wanted to spend more time with her kids. Instead of firing her for this egregious sin – she said she would leave and only work VERY part time for national CBS sports, instead of CBS NY also, in order to spend more time with her 7 and 4 year old – her boss worked out a schedule that gave her local and national time and let her work 3 days for NY local news and 2 days for national sports, on a part time schedule. She’s thrilled, they’re thrilled – and in a very competitive industry where no doubt they could have found someone else to fill her spot, I take my hat off to CBS to come up with this solution for a working mom. Here’s the link to read more. Also if anyone knows Sam Ryan I’d like to be in touch to have her come speak at an event…
