...to tell the nine-month pregnant woman who's last day of work before maternity leave is Friday and the mom with the seventh-month old strapped to her chest to get the hell away from my desk? There are plenty of other places to chat in this office.
Thanks.
(sorry prego bloggy friends...tired and hormonal today, and this woman got married at 7 months pregnant, so I'm guessing she's not one of us.)
AMEN sister!!! My secretary last year would play videos- WITH SOUND- at her desk and then invite people to watch and ooh and ahhh. And then she would start conversations with everyone about recent births and anything babies- oh yeah and SHE KNEW what I was going through.
ReplyDeleteand tell them to get the FUCK away from your desk- you have earned that expletive :)
I hear ya! Earlier this year, a pregnant coworker was chatting with another coworker in the doorway to my office. The pregnant coworker and I had been discussing our respective househunting woes when the other coworker who had been to one of our offices out of town for a month or so came back and saw her for the first time in awhile. Coworker 2 of course started gushing over pregnant coworker (who was pregnant with her first). I was then subjected to a conversation about how she got pregnant the very first month they tried and how she will never do this again and that she already had discussed having a c-section so she could have her tubes tied. Coworker 2 told her that she was so young and that was so drastic and I then had to listen to (or try to tune out) a 10 minute explanation how she never planned to get pregnant and always intended to adopt but she gave in to her husband and agreed he could have one biological child. Did I mention that I had just miscarried a couple weeks earlier?? I don't know how I held it together when all I wanted to do was scream, "Do you have absolutely any f--ing clue how fortunate you are???!!!" Ugh! I wish I would have been strong enough to ask them to take their conversation elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteoh hell..I would have said that....I don't want to hear normal fertiles talk about their perfect fertile lives....
ReplyDeleteNo need to apologize!!! I'm right there with you...and feel free to blame it on the hormones!!
Yeah, I'm all about the ANGRY GLARE. I find that if I look pissed and unfriendly enough that people will start to avoid me...
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