Timeline for How to act when people bring a baby to work?
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| Aug 10, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | You never know, @Pharap - from the mouth of babes. | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 10:27 | comment | added | Pharap | "Simply treat the baby as if it were any other human being that your co-worker brought to work." By trying to discuss programming, technology and scifi with it? | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 12:43 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | You got to Dr. Who because Guardians was a Marvel movie, so was Dr. Strange, which starred Cumberbatch, who also stars as Sherlock on the BBC series and plays a drug-addled highly eccentric very well - and Dr. Who is also a BBC series starring a highly eccentric male figure. | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 12:25 | comment | added | djsmiley2kStaysInside | Yeah Stormageddon!!! | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 12:20 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | @djsmiley2k Stormageddon? | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 22:02 | comment | added | Shawn V. Wilson | Personally, I'd say something like "Are you the new temp?" or "Shouldn't you be in school?". The point is, a joke gets a giggle from the parent, and you don't have to pretend to like babies. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 4:55 | comment | added | Beejamin | This is an important point, I think - babies are people who are important to your colleagues. If they had brought in their partner, cousin, mother, etc. and introduced them to you, it would be weird if you said "Sorry, I don't interact with mothers", right? In the same way, there's no obligation to do any more than you would with any other person: The baby equivalent of "Hi, nice to meet you" is fine - "He's/she's cute, congratulations." will do the trick. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 0:44 | comment | added | ESR | This would be my answer - it allows OP to share with the interaction without forcing them to resort to baby voices, whilst also coming across as amusing. "So you're a baby, huh? What's that like?" baby noises "hahaha, me too" bro-fists the baby | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 19:34 | history | edited | Wayne Werner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 16:12 | history | answered | Wayne Werner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |