to not expect my boss to say this when I tell her I'm pregnant?

[BettyButterknife]

'Oh, I thought you'd put on even more weight!'

Charming!

Maybe she is jealous?

Or just a right cow.

You need that thread about things people say when you are pregnant. It might cheer you up. But it might make you cry.

Could she have been joking? And your pg hormones have made you over-sensitive?

Cheeky cow!

Congratulations.

What did you say to her??

Mine told me: 'You must be mad.'

But she was a bitter, childless, old bat!

I think my expression said it all, and she started to back-track. She went on about how I'd done really well to lose all the weight last time, and hadn't I done loads of exercise and stuff (I hadn't). I just let her ramble on. I didn't really know what to say!

• your boss is a bitch. congratualtions!

Thats not nice. Shes just jealous.

Mine said a very ungenuine congratulations but then the day after, in the tea room, made a sweeping comment that "if women get an urge to have babies, I cant understand why they just dont get a dog instead"

She has 2 lovely teenagers.. who spend alot of time with live in lovely granny suprisenly enough

You should have said "at least I have a reason now for the extra weight - whereas you don't, you poor thing, ha ha ha ha"

Gosh, what an incredibly graceful comment. Cowbag.

My boss's first words when I told her were "what about my budgets? Oh, congratulations I suppose." To be fair, she is bitter and old childless by -loudly-proclaimed-choice and already had another member of staff on maternity leave.

ouch.

Sounds like mouth was engaged while brain was in neutral!

Also sounds like the sort of thing I'd say and it's not bitchy, or jealous, it's just a half horsepower brain pulling a two-tonne mouth!

The miserable (male) shit I work for said: oh how ridiculous fancy a woman your age being pregnant (I am 41). Pig.

Outrageous! My male boss just went completely silent and then basically went on to list how difficult it was going to make his life at work as he worked towards his retirement i.e. he wanted to step back and give me even more work to do! Delightful old dinosaur that he is.

People can be so sniffy about pregnancy and children...

Big congratulations to you

Heget - that is the best description of my boss that I've ever heard!

You're not her are you?

Yes.

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha

My old boss said to my friend (we worked together) on hearing she was pregnant "Oh you are NOT going to keep it are you? you'll ruin your life!!". This the woman with two kids of her own and three grandchildren. My friend while not in a relationship was almost thirty and not a complete doughnut.

I don't think it thats bad! I told my boss today and I wouldn't have been offended if he'd said that. If you don't tell them until its obvious what are they supposed to think?

my daughter told her teacher that her mummy had a baby in her tummy her teachers response "what again?"

My gran said "Is that a good or a bad thing?" (to my mum on the phone, i didnt have the bottle to tell her myself)

Mine responded with 'Oh, bugger'.

Wasn't until the following day that I got a 'Congratulations, by the way'!

I hope she was suitably embarrassed when she realised what she'd said.

BTW, when I told my boss (the king of inappropriate jokes in the workplace) I was pg he said without drawing breath - "It's not mine!". Oh how the HR person and I laughed.

Congratulations!