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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all sound socially incapable or maybe rude. SAHMs are not shocked when other women work. Normal SAHMs would ask you if you’ve been working on anything interesting/challenging/traveling a lot for work recently/changed jobs etc. They know appropriate superficial, work-related questions to ask if your response indicates you want to talk about work for small talk. If they really go silent when you mention work, they sound utterly socially inept.

I think you sound inept and hostile for  responding to something as anodyne as “how’s your day” by talking about work. Surely when someone at work in a meeting opens by saying “how’s the morning?” You don’t respond by saying “busy with work.” Why not grant the SAHMs the courtesy of a normal answer to that question.[/quote]

I agree with this.  I work full time and I don't really want to talk about work with other people.  If someone asks how my week or day is I might say mention if I was busy with work but would then re-direct to ask more questions of the other person's day.  OP try some back and forth instead of just talking about being busy at work.  That is a boring non-conversation starter.  [/quote]

There is a mom whose family is new to our school and complained to a volunteer that she didn’t feel welcome and felt the other parents were unfriendly. This is the same mom who, on kindergarten visit/play date date during last year’s admissions, brushed off other people’s friendly chit chat in the classroom designated as the parent waiting area, said she was busy with work, put in earbuds and started typing on her laptop.

Op, I’m guessing you weren’t quite that obnoxious about it, but it is important to look at what energy you’re giving off if the energy or treatment people reciprocate is always negative.[/quote]

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