I work in a mid-sized office — not toxic, but the kind where everyone knows everyone’s business.
We’d just come back from the weekend when someone asked, “So, when are you having kids?”It was the second time that month.I laughed and said, “Never. I don’t want kids. They take too much time.”
The room went silent.You’d think I’d confessed to a crime.An hour later, a coworker told me my comment had made “some parents uncomfortable.”By the next day, HR had scheduled a “conversation.”
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