{"id":21446,"date":"2025-12-01T14:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=21446"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:54:52","slug":"i-told-my-coworkers-im-child-free-now-hr-is-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=21446","title":{"rendered":"I Told My Coworkers I\u2019m Child-Free, Now HR Is Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So at lunch the other day, someone asked if I had kids or \u2018when I planned to start trying.\u2019 I said, \u2018Nope, not having kids. I\u2019m sterilized.\u2019Cue awkward silence and the usual \u2018You\u2019ll regret it\u2019 comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought that was the end of it. Nope. A week later, HR pulls me into a meeting saying someone felt uncomfortable because I shared \u2018medical info.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I did was answer a question honestly.Meanwhile, everyone else talks about pregnancy, daycare, baby poop, and IVF constantly. But me saying \u2018I had a tubal ligation\u2019 is TMI?Didn\u2019t get written up, but now I\u2019ve got a target on my back. Avoiding lunch convos, people acting weird, one coworker even unfollowed me on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just existing as a happy, child-free woman = HR risk now? Cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So at lunch the other day, someone asked if I had kids or \u2018when I planned to start trying.\u2019 I said, \u2018Nope, not having kids. I\u2019m sterilized.\u2019Cue&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":185,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21446","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21448,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21446\/revisions\/21448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}