Children at work?

Diesel said:
You need to deal with the fact that some people view babies as no more interesting than some random inanimate object.
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[Edit] I'm not going to bother. There is a core thread of babies haters on here, and I'm not going to be drawn into another thread discussing the pros and cons of babies
 
Yes they can come in show the Baby and then go; what isn't ok is to stay for an hour or so and bring the office to a grinding halt....short and sweet does it.
 
skippy2421 said:
I'm saying most friends take an interest in each other's life and a kid is a bloody big part of that. Just because i have no real reason to know about my colleague's life doesn't stop me asking how x's son is doing in their gcses etc. I find talking to my colleagues about their kids or hobbies or whatever helps me get to know them more and appreciate their situation if anything cropped up. People i consider friends take an interest in me as i do with them even if the subject is something i hvae no interest in like kite surfing. I just thought it worked that way for all people, guess not.

I appreciate babies can be boring and you are limited in your interaction with them but i thought we were talking about all kids here? Anyways i'm waffling, I see no reason why people should really get annoyed by kids turning up at work or be surprised that people take an interest.
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I tend to see it the other way, in that people with kids have enough to put up with when they are at home so I assume the last thing they'd want to talk about at work is their kids/homelife.

Don't get me wrong I've worked with a few people who'll use any excuse to bring up their partner or children in the conversation but in my experience most people won't talk about their kids unless you ask them too or it's highly relevant to the conversation at the time.

But let me add that asking someone how their son did in their GCSEs isn't the same and crowding round a newborn baby cooing; I'd probably do the former too.

ci_newman said:
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[Edit] I'm not going to bother. There is a core thread of babies haters on here, and I'm not going to be drawn into another thread discussing the pros and cons of babies
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Here we go, if you don't love something and act all bleary eyed over it you must therefore 'hate' it.

I don't 'hate' other people's babies (unless they're crying on a plane like I had to experience the other day), I'm just ambivalent towards them.
 
Robertnpmk said:
I wouldn't do that as I would be aware of people like on this forum that would be annoyed by it.

It would be abit hypocritical.
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If you had kids of your own you probably won't give a hoot what a bunch of miserable people like those on here think. You can't live your life by what other people think or hate.


As for my work place, people bring their kids in, usually new born babies to about the age of 3 years old. No one cares, even those that don't like kids, they just carry on.

I bought my daughter in on the way home from the hospital and we had guys from our head office in London up and even they came over and made a fuss. At Easter my boss came in with his 2 year old and stayed about an hour and he wandered about and everyone chatted to him. We're about 80% women here.

Only one person here that people hate when he brings his kids in, because it's 3 of them aged up to 8 years old but that's more to do with them not liking him.

I personally don't like sitting there working listening to people shouting at the football on the TV, but who really cares, life is too short!
 
AHarvey said:
I bought my daughter in on the way home from the hospital and we had guys from our head office in London up and even they came over and made a fuss. At Easter my boss came in with his 2 year old and stayed about an hour and he wandered about and everyone chatted to him. We're about 80% women here.
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How much did she cost?
 
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