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I got my timing perfect telling my boss my wife is pregnant

So, this isn't a big deal but something I just found personally very funny and caused my bosses wife (the companies HR person) to have a red face. So my company is a very small company, about 10 people, and are currently hiring for a marketing role among a few other roles. The role they have open isn't the best paid, and doesn't offer even hybrid remote (like my job does). The company had only interviewed 2 people for the role due to low interest and extended an offer to one woman who accepted on the spot after a 4 hour interview (I know, madness). Then last Monday the person emailed my bosses wife to say they had accepted a counter offer for more money in their current position. Bosses wife came out to the office to tell boss and the rest of us that the person had changed their…


So, this isn't a big deal but something I just found personally very funny and caused my bosses wife (the companies HR person) to have a red face.

So my company is a very small company, about 10 people, and are currently hiring for a marketing role among a few other roles. The role they have open isn't the best paid, and doesn't offer even hybrid remote (like my job does). The company had only interviewed 2 people for the role due to low interest and extended an offer to one woman who accepted on the spot after a 4 hour interview (I know, madness).

Then last Monday the person emailed my bosses wife to say they had accepted a counter offer for more money in their current position. Bosses wife came out to the office to tell boss and the rest of us that the person had changed their mind on the marketing role. Bit of back and forth ensued with them floating various ideas as to why she might not have wanted the role, maybe the woman didn't like the long commute which was over an hour, maybe she was intimidated by the amount of work involved with the role. Maybe it was the pay (like she had said in her email).

This all ended with my bosses wife (who has 2 kids, and has been paid a GOOD 9 months maternity leave per child from her public sector job which she does part time) said to me and the boss, she seems to be living with her boyfriend and seemed like the sort of person in 5 years wants to have 2 kids and not work much anymore so it's probably for the best she wouldn't have taken it seriously anyway. She was essentially discriminating against women who want to have kids and work at the same time.

I was gobsmacked, there have been plenty of generally boomer things that have been said about the office by the 2 of them, but this was on another level and I was gobsmacked, mostly by the hypocrisy of it, but something tweaked in my head and thought that was a good time to tell them that my wife (who also works full time) is pregnant. Then there was silence and a red face, some brief congratulations and then a lot of back peddling to try and correct what she had just said, I didn't make much conversation and let her keep backpeddling and getting redder and redder in the face, I personally found it very funny.

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