Babies in the office....

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Am I the only one that thinks this is wrong? We regularly get employees that have gone on maternity leave bringing their babies into the office and bleating on about them.

I work in an open-plan office and take calls regularly and when you get a group of women (never see a guy), banging on about nappy varieties or tips on teething, it gets seriously annoying. Luckily in this occasion, the child didn't cry, but it's not uncommon they do.

I was chastised today as I told a group of women I was in a call and if they could take their social elsewhere. I was given looks that would kill and asked if "I liked children or was just a grumpy sod".

I love kids, but it's a fking office and not a social area! Anyone else have to put up with this nonsense?

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Like I said...I love kids, babies and all. Looking forward to having my own one day....but when I'm trying to talk to a partner on the phone or even just trying to concentrate on getting a complex report done, I don't want them around me.

We get on average about one baby appearance per day so it's just happens too often IMHO.

I don't think I'd complain if it were once in a while but I'm just getting bored of it.

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Baby number two (currently screaming), just entered the building.

Wonderful....

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Puggit said:

OP - do you work in a call center?!

It sometimes feels like it....

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otolith said:

Odd idea that people who don't want or particularly like kids are either gay or infertile. Stockholm Syndrome, I expect.

Are you deliberately obtuse or just uneducated, uncultured and plain vulgar?