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Original poster

or rather, did I over-react? Colleague thought it would be funny to spread a rumour as an April Fools joke that the father of my unborn child is my boss, not my DH

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MamaG · 02/04/2008 08:49

I was NOT impressed and told her so in no uncertain terms.

Apart from the fact that I don't want bloody rumours about the parenthood of my baby flying around the office (of course, it is DH's, no doubt about that !!) its effing unprofessional!

Should I have laughed it off, or was I right to be annoyed?

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Original poster
MamaG · 02/04/2008 09:39

She's been in to see me .

She had a bunch of flowers with her, she'd read my email and rushed over the road to buy them. she said she was so sorry, she truly didn't mean to upset me so much and could see the "joke" was in very poor taste. She said she'd tried to laugh it off with me yesterday as she was embarrassed but that she was genuinely sorry.

Yay

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zippitippitoes · 02/04/2008 09:40

thats good nice that she is trying to make amends

Flier · 02/04/2008 09:40

aww, nice ending.

elesbells · 02/04/2008 09:40
Smile
frumpygrumpy · 02/04/2008 09:41

Great

Original poster
MamaG · 02/04/2008 09:41

I'm very relieved TBH. It's horrid to have bad feeling in a small workplace. I said "thank you very much, I really appreciate that" which I think was sufficient

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Miaou · 02/04/2008 09:42

Awww, I do like a happy ending. You obviously handled the whole thing very well, MamaG (and congrats btw!)

franke · 02/04/2008 09:43

Good for her. Pleased for you at this outcome . Even if everyone could immediately see it was a "joke" it could still have felt very awkward for you and your boss.

Bluestocking · 02/04/2008 09:43

That's brilliant! Well done to you for handling it so well, and to her for realising in time what an awful idea it was.

duchesse · 02/04/2008 09:45

Fab ending! She doesn't quite so demented now, merely misjudged...

edam · 02/04/2008 09:45

Phew! Good for you (and for her, pulling her socks up).

Twiglett · 02/04/2008 09:47

excellent .. dignified response all round

now you can bait her with it forever and ever

you see people disparage old folk wisdom ....

Monkeytrousers · 02/04/2008 09:48

Go no, yanbu. Silly cow

Monkeytrousers · 02/04/2008 09:48

god no, I mean

Slouchy · 02/04/2008 09:49

Ah, bless her. And you. And that wee bundle in your tum. And everybody.
Sigh...happy endings...

chonky · 02/04/2008 09:50

Glad it ended well (and well done Twig for such an excellent e-mail - I'll have to remember that one)

Monkeytrousers · 02/04/2008 09:52

Just read what she did. Not a cow now.

Ulysees · 02/04/2008 09:56

happy for you

LilRedWG · 02/04/2008 09:59

Stupid woman (her not you)! I'm glad that she's apologised.

WelliesAndPyjamas · 02/04/2008 10:02

glad it is sorted and that she understood

blueshoes · 02/04/2008 10:10

mamaG, glad it has been resolved

merryberry · 02/04/2008 10:20

blimey, wee bit nutty that one. did she apologise to your boss too, poor bloke?

Squirdle · 02/04/2008 10:27

YANBU!!! That is awful! And totally unprofessional!

I'm glad she has apologised though.

StealthPolarBear · 02/04/2008 10:30

glad she has apologised (and it seems genuine)
That is the least appropriate April Fool's 'joke' ever

Blu · 02/04/2008 10:37

MamaG - well done and I am pleased this ended happily.

Before I read to the end I was going to say I am a boss, and if one of my staff did this about another member of staff - and especially involving me - I would be having serious words about professional behaviour with the person concerned - so she was in fact putting herself in jeopardy at work. Which would have been something to have pointed out to her.

Luckily common sense seems to have returned in the nick of time!