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Coworker getting WAY to personal
amy715
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My assistant has a tendency to say the wrong thing to me about my pregnancy. Well yesterday she started asking me things that were just way to personal. She asked me if I had hemorrhoids. Just in casual conversation, completely out of no where. Just "How was your day off? So did your pregnancy give you hemorrhoids yet?" I told her that was more than a little inappropriate. Then she asked me to show her my belly button. I refused, and then she started touching my belly without permission. Why do people think that it's ok to say and do really inappropriate things to pregnant ladies?
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Re: Coworker getting WAY to personal
Well, to answer your question, I personally think that when people talk to a pregnant person, they have to say something about the pregnancy but don't know what to so say, so they say something stupid. While it's easy to say, "Don't worry about it", it does get a little old around three months ago.
Although, to deal with your assistant, she may just not know what the boundaries are when it comes to you. I bet that you two speak about other things that aren't directly work related so she may not know where to draw the line. I will say that the next time that she says something inappropriate or makes you uncomfortable to just tell her, "You know, we don't have to speak about my pregnancy," or "Pregnancy's kinda gross and I really would like to spare you the gory details."
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TTC since May 2006. After 3 failed Clomid cycles, 2 failed Injectibles/IUIs, 2 failed IVFs and 1 failed FET, we moved on to adoption!
Last ditch FET resulted in BFP, and identical twin girls!