Someone in our football team mentioned his impending nuptials for the first time in response to the Friday roll call on the whatsapp group
This would be weird but I wouldn’t entirely be surprised as everyone I work with is weird.
This happened where I used to work. It’s an odd thing to do. I understand when a couple might not want to tell anyone if there are worries about the baby’s or mother’s health, but otherwise it’s a bit of a strange thing to do. The guy that did it where I worked was a bit of an oddball tbh
9 months is a long time to not mention a single thing about having a baby. Like you do stuff don’t you? Buy shit and go to classes and stuff.
quite a common ailment for keen footballers
can’t believe people are insisting that other people are weird for not telling them more about their personal lives
YOU’RE THE WEIRD ONES, WEIRDOS
CONGRATULATIONS
I’d be surprised - I found in the run-up to having a baby I was having to take off quite a bit of time for hospital appointments and so on, but I guess you can be very discrete about that. Are they not taking paternity leave though? Surely they’d have to arrange that in advance and people would know?
surely you’d be so excited you’d wanna tell everyone unless you’re dead inside?
He’s probably dead inside.
Alright, fine. I’ll mention I’m having a baby before it arrives. mumbles likeI’mgoingsteadywitheveryonearoundherejeez
They probably just don’t like you
or cautious, or not that close with your colleagues, or any number of other reasons? bit weird to be demanding people tell you about this stuff tbh
they’ve worked with me for 4 years, I think that’s a given
couple of pretty obvious reasons why they might not have made a deal about it but don’t want to sound glib talking about them
This sounds like my future actions.
are you sure this person didn’t talk about having sex 9 months ago?
Congratulations though
Cheers. Still 2 months to mention it, so still outside the “window of weirdness”
Perfectly fine. I’ve been at my work for 8 years and volunteer pretty much no info about my outside life.
You’ve got to have an almost Bruce Wayne-like separation of work and private life.