I'm a bit peeved so excuse me if this is a little irrational.
Yesterday I asked my manager if he would be okay with me attending a antenatal relaxation/birth preparation class every Wednesday. Our company policy is that pregnant women are allowed to take paid time off for these things and antenatal appointments etc, but as he's new he just wanted to double check the policy before agreeing. No problem.
Today he comes over to my desk to tell me that he's checked the policy and it's fine for me to go. Then he starts 'joking' about how pregnancy is a skive as women get 'ALL this time off' for antenatal appointments and classes etc.
"You're only giving birth," he tells me.
I smiled politely and told him to have a go himself and get back to me. As he's chuckling and walking away, my male colleague then starts up on a rant about how women shouldn't have anything to say about giving birth because HE'S had kidney stones, he has them ALL THE TIME and they're FAR WORSE than giving birth. He knows this because his ex-wife had two children and yet she'd happily go back and do it again, but he'd NEVER want to have kidney stones again.
My manager looked a little awkward at this and off he went.
Then about 30 seconds later my colleague turns to me and says, "Well I think that was a little out of order."
"What?" I ask.
"'John' calling pregnancy a 'skive'. I think that's really out of order and a bit of an ignorant opinion."
I held my tongue but I really wanted to point out that he was a bit of an ignorant twat too.