{"id":190,"date":"2025-08-22T03:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:52:57","slug":"i-reported-my-childfree-coworker-to-hr-she-kept-shaming-me-for-having-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"I Reported My Childfree Coworker to HR, She Kept Shaming Me for Having Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>My\u00a0name is\u00a0Amanda. I\u2019m 29\u00a0and had 4\u00a0kids and work at\u00a0a\u00a0consulting firm full-time.<\/em><em>Every day, I\u00a0leave work early at\u00a04:30 to\u00a0pick up\u00a0my\u00a0four kids from school. My\u00a0coworker Liz, who is\u00a0childfree, nags that I\u2019m dumping my\u00a0work on\u00a0her and calls me\u00a0<strong>\u201cSchool Bus.\u201d<\/strong> Yesterday, she said, <strong>\u201cYou think you\u2019re a\u00a0career woman, but all you\u2019re good at\u00a0is\u00a0getting pregnant! Stay at\u00a0home if\u00a0you want a\u00a0big family!\u201d<\/strong>I\u00a0smirked. I\u00a0didn\u2019t say anything, but\u00a0I had been recording her. I\u2019ve had enough of\u00a0her words to\u00a0me, and\u00a0I had decided to\u00a0click on\u00a0my\u00a0phone recorder when she started talking to\u00a0me. The next day, without telling any of\u00a0our other colleagues, <strong>I\u00a0went to\u00a0HR.<\/strong><\/em><br><br><em>I\u00a0made them hear Liz\u2019s words and told them that\u00a0I cannot continue working with such a\u00a0person.I\u00a0went back to\u00a0my\u00a0desk, and Liz started to\u00a0make her usual comments about my\u00a0big family. Then she frozewhen\u00a0I revealed the recording to\u00a0her and said that\u00a0HR wanted to\u00a0see her.Once she came back, <strong>she started begging me\u00a0after having known that\u00a0I had reported her and that she was going to\u00a0be\u00a0laid off.<\/strong> She said that she\u2019s been taking care of\u00a0her sick parents alone and that she desperately needs this work.Now I\u00a0feel bad that a\u00a0coworker is\u00a0going to\u00a0be\u00a0fired because of\u00a0me.<strong> Do\u00a0you think\u00a0I went too far, or\u00a0did\u00a0I stand up\u00a0for myself?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My\u00a0name is\u00a0Amanda. I\u2019m 29\u00a0and had 4\u00a0kids and work at\u00a0a\u00a0consulting firm full-time.Every day, I\u00a0leave work early at\u00a04:30 to\u00a0pick up\u00a0my\u00a0four kids from school. My\u00a0coworker Liz, who is\u00a0childfree, nags that&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":486,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}