I wanted to touch on the topic of what you should reveal about yourself at work. I'll just start by saying, frustrations with your children are at the top of the list for me. A coworker recently had child number three and he has been noticeably cranky since the birth.
Each day, he starts with a routine that acknowledges the difficulties of the previous night. Then, he goes on to complete his monologue with a statement that if he and his wife had conceived THIS child first, they would have never chosen to have another.
Besides it being a particularly cruel statement to make about a child they CHOSE to have, it is also greatly insensitive to other people in our office. People who have struggled to conceive. People who would take the inconsolable baby, without question, to make their family complete.
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