It's 2023 and we still have baby crying in the background in a Teams meeting?

[Anonymous]

I haven’t heard any crying babies, but enough with the barking dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:seriously parents, if this is you, just stop. hire a gxd dxmn nanny already.

...if the baby is home there's a pretty good chance they have a nanny. Or a spouse or other family member caring for the baby. Is your company willing to pay to soundproof their home office so you don't hear their dogs/kids/next door neighbour's construction noise?

My company would have to pay for a home office first.

It's possible to hear a baby crying even when someone else is caring for the baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do realize we've had one of the worst cold and flu and COVID and whatever else communicative disease seasons ever?

That parents are having a hard time finding kids ibuprofen and other over the counter kids meds?

That you can't send your kid to daycare when they're sick?

Seriously, people get over yourselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the baby is crying in the background with the nanny? Its 2023 and we are still judging others?

This. Babies cry, even when they are with another caregiver OP. We are also in the DC metro and lots of houses are teeny or don't have good sound insulation.

[Anonymous]

It's 2023 and we still have people like you who have no respect for their colleagues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the baby is crying in the background with the nanny? Its 2023 and we are still judging others?

This. Babies cry, even when they are with another caregiver OP. We are also in the DC metro and lots of houses are teeny or don't have good sound insulation.

+1 One of my employees has a live-in caregiver and you can still sometimes hear the baby cry in the background in the next room. It doesn't bother me, and it shouldn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:seriously parents, if this is you, just stop. hire a gxd dxmn nanny already.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or go into the actual office.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:seriously parents, if this is you, just stop. hire a gxd dxmn nanny already.

+1

You can hear babies even if there is a nanny or au pair full time in the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. This is the new normal. Just like it's going to next to impossible to make everyone go in 5 days a week. Get used to it

no it's not. You are either working or you are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:seriously parents, if this is you, just stop. hire a gxd dxmn nanny already.

...if the baby is home there's a pretty good chance they have a nanny. Or a spouse or other family member caring for the baby. Is your company willing to pay to soundproof their home office so you don't hear their dogs/kids/next door neighbour's construction noise?

No no no... it's more like 100% chance the worker is a freaking WFH slacker who can go to the office because of the commute but now you really know the reason.

[Anonymous]

Someone in my mom's group just asked for tips for remote work with a newborn. UGH. Get a freaking daycare/nanny like the rest of us. You're short changing your child and work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's 2023 and we still have people like you who have no respect for their colleagues?

colleagues = work
friends with crying babies in the background = not working

[Anonymous]

I don't even understand this scenario that makes people think a crying baby means parent isn't working.

If someone is muted and video is off, maybe they're caring for a baby.
If you *hear* the baby, then they are presumably unmuted and contributing to the WORK conversation while someone else is with the baby in the background.

[Anonymous]

Kick rocks, OP. Seriously.

The world has changed. People are going to be people. We’re more available to our professional lives than ever before (24 hours in many cases), and the trade off is that you’re going to have to get used to people not trying to hide their lives outside of work. Deal with it.