BellaOnline Forums Relationships Married No Kids And so baby-hell at work begins...

Things have been quite busy here at work (preparing for the opening of school after Labor Day) so that has taken my mind off of this (which is good). Everyone else has been busy as well. Right now, I do feel better and ready for any attacks of the baby pictures, etc. Yes, I know it'll get worse in the May 2008 time frame. But that is not a problem. I'll just have to be conspicuously on vacation when that happens

Oh Duane- I can really relate to this. I'm in baby hell at work. I work for a small charter school district in the curriculum dept. Not only do we have to put up with people bringing their cute little darlings in to ooh and ahh over, we have to tolerate the grandkids of the owner running amock in the place, not being supervised and in general wreaking havoc on the office. One time the son of the superintendent (he's 10) got into our animator's computer and managed to delete a couple of hour of his work. Nice! Really does wonders for morale in the office! This kids coming to work thing only happens once every few weeks, but it drives us all crazy! Just yesterday the daughter of the owner was carting her latest baby around to meetings etc. I guess being a family member has its priveleges. What really makes me angry is that they allow their own family members to do this, but no other parent employee would dare bring their kids into work all the time. Complete double standard!

I realize that I am probably helping to vent the frustrations that everyone faces at the office from time to time. If anything, for me, this only happens once every year or two. Since I got married, this baby-mania seems more magnified to me. I'm learning to get used to it (as best as CF man can be in an environment of all fathers and mothers). Compared to what I hear from others, this environment I am in (professional, business-like Technology oriented part of the school system) is heaven compared to the other offices other people are at.

If I was on this board the last time this happened with the last infant, I would have posted my ranting back then (because I had similar feelings. However, I just dealt with all that stuff privately. But it does feel better to let the feelings out...