Boss keeps bugging me on maternity leave

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes! Bad follow up op.

Mine was similar in that they kept nagging me but it was that they wanted me to bring my baby by for an hour or so and that was just not happening. Nope. I play nice at work, but when I'm on unpaid maternity leave I'm not bringing my baby by for your enjoyment.

WTF?

Why on earth would anyone need your baby "for an hour or so"? This almost sounds like a cult.

To go from cubicle to cubicle with all the older women holding her. And then out to lunch. I have an old, primarily female workplace.

Most new parents in my organization do the same thing by bringing the baby in to visit. People in my organization feel invested in the new baby and love the opportunity to see the baby, hold it and coo. It breeds goodwill among coworkers by allowing them some facetime with the new baby. We are 50/50 men and women. Some of the men get more excited than the women about a baby coming to visit.

You are not entitled to meet someone's baby. I don't care about goodwill amongst my coworkers during flu season. If we were friends it would be different.

While you are certainly well within your rights to refuse to bring the baby, you come off as kind of a jerk. People are trying to be nice, PP.

[Anonymous]

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Sweetie, where did I say we forced them to do this? Where did I say that we felt it was our right?

It is our culture. The new parents are really thrilled to do it and take the "baby walk" as one new dad (his wife is our colleague) called it. Obviously in our organization you would not be a good fit. That's okay with me.

Off-topic.
Why do some people call anonymous people on here "sweetie"? See it from time to time. You might try to misrepresent that that you are trying to be nice, but in reality it is so condescending.

I hope you don't do that at work place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Sweetie, where did I say we forced them to do this? Where did I say that we felt it was our right?

It is our culture. The new parents are really thrilled to do it and take the "baby walk" as one new dad (his wife is our colleague) called it. Obviously in our organization you would not be a good fit. That's okay with me.

Off-topic.
Why do some people call anonymous people on here "sweetie"? See it from time to time. You might try to misrepresent that that you are trying to be nice, but in reality it is so condescending.

I hope you don't do that at work place.

It’s clearly part of their special workplace culture. You wouldn’t understand at all, sweetie pie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Sweetie, where did I say we forced them to do this? Where did I say that we felt it was our right?

It is our culture. The new parents are really thrilled to do it and take the "baby walk" as one new dad (his wife is our colleague) called it. Obviously in our organization you would not be a good fit. That's okay with me.

Off-topic.
Why do some people call anonymous people on here "sweetie"? See it from time to time. You might try to misrepresent that that you are trying to be nice, but in reality it is so condescending.

I hope you don't do that at work place.

That was my point, dear.