Hi,
Posting here as name related and I'm not sure how I should have responded.
Firstly my child is 12 .
She has what is perhaps to some considered slightly more upper class name. But honestly it's just a traditional name.
Think along the lines of Tabitha , Penelope , Harriet , Lucinda in style. ( I'm not putting the name for privacy)
So I work in a very middle class area public facing and we deal with families.
I have a colleague who today was making jokes about some of the posher parents who contact us and used my child's name as a typical posh name.
I did point out quickly that it was DD name.
But still she wouldn't let up on it. She was basically really rude to point others in office quickly jumped in saying how they had always liked said name.
I basically left it, just said it was a name I had always loved. and ignored her.
My DD has always loved her name. gets a lot of complements on it and although of course nobody likes all names nobody has ever been rude to my face.
I am now quite upset and no idea how to approach this. I will no doubt do or say anything at all. But quietly dislike this person going forward.
I also don't like colleagues daughters name myself ( think it's rather low class actually) but I would never in a million years comment.
This is a professional setting btw.
Anyone else had this? I'm not a hormonal new mum and I'm still upset!