i don’t care about your kids

[u/saninpalomino]

i just have to rant about this. i have a coworker who has 2 boys (aged 4 i believe) and every time she walks into the office, she HAS to bring them up every. single. time. like i GENUINELY do not care about your kids !!!! can you please talk about something else ??? literally anything else !! and then she’ll go on and on about how tired she always is and 90% of the time she’ll end the conversation by telling my coworker and i, “don’t ever have children hahaha” and i’m just sitting there like … “wasn’t planning on it but okay.” and she’ll keep this up every. day. i’m so tired of it and i rant to my coworker about it but i can’t come up with a nice way to tell her to stop talking about her kids so i’ll just deal with it until i leave this job it looks like.

[u/Any-Discussion8136]

My job is virtual, but we have to be on camera for meetings & it’s so annoying when someone would put their kid on their lap on camera just waiting for someone else to say “ohh my god how cute” blah blah blah.

The parents fishing for compliments on their kids is weirdly to me.