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January 2012 Moms
I was put on the spot...
by my coworker today.
She came up to me and said "Do you have something to tell me?" I said NO. She continued pressing "Really, you have nothing personal to tell me". Uhm if it's personal obviously not!! omg, So I just said, NO, i have nothing to say.
And she flat out said "Oh come on, you really won't tell me, I know and can see that you are pregnant! It is so obvious!"
I couldn't believe it! So I said, well then keep your mouth shut! But I don't think she did, people are acting so "normal" around me that now I'm certain she told many of them... Oh well. I'm still waiting to announce it at work. I just can't believe how rude people are. They are pressing you to tell them, why can't they just respect you and wait until YOU are ready to tell them. How the heck can you think you have the right to force me to say it UGH.
Over and out.
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Re: I was put on the spot...
WOAH. That is so annoying and inappropriate. But I feel like I know her type.
I think coworkers of mine are getting suspicious but hopefully they continue to keep their mouths shut.
The best part is, we don't really talk or work together on anything. We are not close by any means!! But for some reason she felt like I should have told her...
Exactly! I kept saying I had nothing to say and pretended like I had no clue what the heck she was talking about. But when she said the she just "knew" b/c it was so obvious, well what the F was I supposed to say then LOL.
I'm so thankful I don't work in an office setting.
I love working with a 3 year old and 1 year old every day, especially since the 3 year old hasn't noticed how "fat" i'm getting yet LOL.
OMG.... how far along are you that it's so "obvious"???
How rude! I probably would have been thinking, "Well I do have this secret desire to tell you off right now...." That's personal.
I lied to my mother in law today and said I wasn't pregnant. I don't think the world is ready to know and the second she knows the world will know.
This is why I am so glad I am on summer break right now. I didn't want to go through any of these types of situations before we even tell our families.
With my last pregnancy (that ended in a miscarriage), I had a coworker weasel it out of me that we were pg and to this day it bothers me SO much. She kept saying over and over that I was and that I had to tell her. I tried denying it a million times and finally just said "MY MOM DOESN'T EVEN KNOW!" She thought she was just the best thing ever for guessing it. I never even got to tell my Mom that we were pg, just that we had miscarried. Random coworker should not have been allowed to experience our joy when our families only experienced our pain.
Denying the pregnancy is also a hard thing because I tried to do that last time and feel guilty because we ended up miscarrying.
So I'm happy to hang out all day with my dog and not worry about my coworkers (at least the nosy ones) until I go back to school in August and we will have told our families by then
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This exactly...how rude!
How rude! Don't people understand that early pregnancy is a pretty sensitive time and that if you are pregnant, you'll tell people as soon as you're comfortable??? Ridiculous.
I'm not 100% ready to tell my coworkers, but I'm going to tell my boss next week in the hopes that I can tell her before she guesses. I'm going to ask her not to tell until I'm 12 weeks along.
you know? sometimes I have "figured it out" before someone was ready to tell me. but I don't know, maybe I'm crazy I figured it was THEIR news to share and THEIR story to tell and not mine so guess what? I freaking kept my mouth shut.
Is that so hard? ugh. I'm annoyed for you.
I live by the rule that unless someone tells me they are pregnant I never ask for 2 reasons!
1. It is rude and none of my business if they are not ready to tell....and 2. If they aren't pregnant then I don't want to humiliate them or myself!
I'm so glad that I'm off work for the summer and don't have to worry about that!
One of my colleagues guessed last week, and now my other colleague is "suspicious". The "suspicious" colleague feels the need to hound the one who know and I am desperately afraid the one who know is going to tell her.
In return, the one who know is now pressuring me to tell the office as soon as possible. Since when is that HER choice? I am only 8 weeks.
So YES! I COMPLETELY understand where you are coming from. Sometimes I wish I worked with all men. They don't care and probably don't notice you are getting "fat".