New colleague of a few weeks (I’m training her at the moment) answered my personal mobile when I nipped to the loo. It was on my desk, on silent so she wouldn’t have heard it ringing or vibrating. We don’t have work phones, so no reason for her to think it was a work call. I can’t think of any possible reason I’d answer a BRAND NEW colleague’s personal phone, surely you would just say ‘your phone rang while you were out’!
To add insult to injury, it was the midwife ringing to book my first antenatal appointment, so this new colleague who I know practically nothing about now also knows I’m pregnant before I wanted to announce it 🥴 and now I’m worried that if she doesn’t think it’s a problem to answer my phone, would she also not think it was a problem to tell other colleagues about my pregnancy?!
I didn’t say anything at the time as I excused myself to take the call and by the time I’d finished, we had a patient to see so the moment passed, but I feel quite uneasy about the total lack of boundaries this early on. How would you address it without making a ‘big thing’ of it?