I was just in the ladies room and in popped a little girl, around 10 years old. Where did she come from? Well probably she was a guest at the retirement party for C that everyone but my department was invited to (outcasts!).
Kids in the workplace is a pet peeve of mine. This is something that I had never experienced until I came to work here. People bring their kids in all the time. And I don’t mean the occasional spouse showing up with the kids for lunch. I mean they just show up and hang out. For hours. I can’t count how many times a screaming 3 year old has come running by my office. How many times I’ve listened to someone’s infant cry during work hours. A couple of weeks ago, someone couldn’t get a babysitter, so she just brought her child to work all day. No, we don’t have on-site day care. No, we don’t work at a toy company or anything related to children. Why do kids even want to come here? I don’t even want to come here and they are paying me.
My mom and I were discussing kids the other day. Specifically, how people who are parents now seem to never want to leave their kids. On this day we were at a charity walk with literally 70,000 other people. It was 95 degrees and very humid. Basically your normal summer day in the midwest. But in the midst of this, many small children and babies. I’m not a parent or a doctor, but I can’t imagine this is the proper weather or conditions to bring your infants outside for hours. I don’t even make Sadie take walks outside in this weather. Plus, you’d think people would be worried that they would lose their kids in a crowd this size.
So, why not just leave them at home? Are babysitters that hard to come by? It seems like when we were little, our moms would leave us with the grandparents for these kinds of occasions. Or you know, our dads. I was just talking to a co-worker about this. She was trying to plan a girls weekend with some friends, but one refuses to leave her daughter, with her own husband. Seriously? This leads me to another pet peeve, which is when I hear women say that the father of their children is “babysitting.” I don’t think it is babysitting if it is your own kids. I’m pretty sure that’s just parenting.
Of course, I’m no expert.
In completely unrelated news….yesterday I got my sandals from GoJane. The photos on their website did not do them justice. They are so incredibly adorable and I have gotten many compliments on my silver sandals today.
I’ll be gone the next few days on a girls weekend to Music City, aka Nashville. Flood waters do not scare us! Happy weekend, everyone.
