Wtf Wednesday

OliveOyl2014 · March 2017

What has you saying wtf today?

bluejeanbabi05 · March 2017

My wtf, especially on international women's day today, is that many women who *want to* return to work after having a baby here in the US can't because of the price of childcare. I hate hate hate that.

grkgdss00 · March 2017

@bluejeanbabi05 seriously - it's crazy, especially if you are in bigger market. Not sure what i'm going to do with 2 kids! I really enjoy working but not sure if it will make sense. I have found that in-home daycares (in my area, San Diego) are a bit less expensive.

mrs_fogue · March 2017

@bluejeanbabi05 I don't know why childcare and maternity leave are not bigger Women's issues! To me, this is what is most important!!!

I really feel sorry for the moms in larger cities, especially DC. It's insane what you all pay compared to what I pay. Very grateful for our reasonably priced in home sitter.

VLillyV · March 2017

One of my older, old school coworkers asked me who invented womens day anyway... so I looked at him and said... probably a woman. Musta been the tone because he ran away.

And started congratulating everyone woman in the office.

yah.

@bluejeanbabi05 I agree. I am considerably lucky because of my circumstances, I will not have to pay for childcare, but otherwise, I would not be able to afford to have a baby. It's astonishingly expensive, and mind you, they get quite ill in the childcare settings which means more doctors visits, which means more meds and copays.

jessafishy · March 2017

I keep forgetting how backwards some of my coworkers are until they stick their foot in their mouth.

Just had one guy (probably in his 70s and who I usually like a lot) go on a rant about how people should count their blessings, stop complaining, and stop trying to change things and be content with what they have. In response to why he doesn't like women being allowed into Rotary.

I can't make this shit up.

tyannej · March 2017

My WTF today is, some of the few people that know I'm pregnant are seriously asking me "what kind of bottles do you plan on using?" HELL I DONT KNOW! The ones they sell at the baby store?! I'm only 9 weeks, I think I have time to figure out which ones I want to use... WTF.

soprano19 · March 2017

@bluejeanbabi05 I have the opposite issue (well, sort of). As much as I like my job, I would love to be a SAHM, but I can't because of the cost of health care. My coverage is a lot better and less expensive than H's, so it would be way cheaper for me to keep my job and put the baby on my insurance, but this also means we'll have to pay for child care.

PizzaMonster3 · March 2017

My WTF Wednesday - men asking when international men's day is "or is is sexist to ask?"

swift kick to the tiny ego in the pants to the next man who asks.

sometimes I feel like a terrible person for trying to bring a child into this world. Then I think I could have the next Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Emma Watson and feel slightly better about it.

laeberge3 · March 2017

@tyannejohn I've had the same thing happen! My MIL right away asked what we have for the baby. It's our first, so nothing. I've been pregnant for like 6 seconds so let's just slow your roll. I know she's probably just excited but still! Of course, this is also a woman who is known to make large purchases (i.e., I chose a crib for you...here it is) for others without even consulting them first.

WTF to my damn internet today. I can't get anything done without it.

laeberge3 · March 2017

@tyannejohn I've had the same thing happen! My MIL right away asked what we have for the baby. It's our first, so nothing. I've been pregnant for like 6 seconds so let's just slow your roll. I know she's probably just excited but still! Of course, this is also a woman who is known to make large purchases (i.e., I chose a crib for you...here it is) for others without even consulting them first.

WTF to my damn internet today. I can't get anything done without it.

laeberge3 · March 2017

@tyannejohn I've had the same thing happen! My MIL right away asked what we have for the baby. It's our first, so nothing. I've been pregnant for like 6 seconds so let's just slow your roll. I know she's probably just excited but still! Of course, this is also a woman who is known to make large purchases (i.e., I chose a crib for you...here it is) for others without even consulting them first.

WTF to my damn internet today. I can't get anything done without it.

tyannej · March 2017

@laeberge3 Right?! I'm like lets find out what the gender is before we go crazy. I've been doing research on bottles, pack n plays, and travel systems but I don't have anything picked out for sure. Like let me be pregnant and enjoy it before I start stressing about what I want to buy! lol

jessafishy · March 2017

What I want to say so often but just bite my tongue because I know it won't matter.

dinosaur · March 2017

My WTF is that my office is the "party office". We always have people coming in and out. I can't get any work done with all the interruptions!

buttercream_frosting · March 2017

WTF to my DH who refuses to vaccuum but is sitting there playing computer games. Hand me the knives.

joforyoga · March 2017

bluejeanbabi05 said:

My wtf, especially on international women's day today, is that many women who *want to* return to work after having a baby here in the US can't because of the price of childcare. I hate hate hate that.

It's insane. I live in Canada so I am very lucky to have a onenyer maternity leave but we are still so far behind so many European countries that have fully paid at leave for up to two years! Socialist ideals that value family and known that happy moms make happy employees, happy husbands and happy balanced children for our future. The US is one of the worst in the world. But childcare is so expensive here too it's a major issue for so many families.it would have been half my salary for one child had I gone back to work after my son. I stayed at home because to me that's not worth it just to pay someone else to nurture, feed and educate my child all day.

OliveOyl2014 · March 2017

Wtf DH. Why did you make fish and stink up the whole house. It's not like I had dinner made or anything.

asickles98 · March 2017

@vvilla3 international men's day is Nov.19

singing_lyn · March 2017

My WTF... Customer has basically had me draw three plans already and he thinks of himself as a designer because he designed and built his last house himself. The house he built is ugly the ones I've drawn for him are ugly, and I told him that I would come up with a plan suggestion too so maybe it would be a different option that gives them everything they want and he basically dismissed what I said, felt a lot like a pat on the head, you're such a cute young girl but we know what we want kind of dismissal. I felt like saying I may be only 34 but I've been designing houses since I was 16 and messing with them since I was 13. I know what I am doing. Grrrr.... And then because the meeting ran so late I didn't get any dinner yet and now I don't even want to eat because nothing I have at home sounds good.

Cythe · March 2017

WTF to people on the Ovia Pregnancy app who ask if spotting at 4 weeks is normal - and then say they have gotten all negative tests and are bleeding.

You have your period, and are not - nor recently have been 4 weeks pregnant.

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