{"id":7556,"date":"2026-04-23T22:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:19:38","slug":"i-refuse-to-treat-my-coworker-like-royalty-just-because-shes-pregnant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=7556","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Treat My Coworker Like Royalty Just Because She\u2019s Pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At first, I was happy for my pregnant coworker. I helped when she felt sick\u2014covering meetings, grabbing documents, even picking up lunch. I figured it was temporary.<\/p>\n

But then things changed.<\/p>\n

She began forwarding her tasks to me almost daily with notes like, \u201cBaby brain today!\u201d I told her to stop, but she laughed it off. Soon after, I walked into the office and found her sitting at my desk. She said she needed the space near the window because she felt nauseous.<\/p>\n

That was my breaking point.<\/p>\n

I left her a note asking to talk after work. Instead, she reported me to our manager for being \u201cpassive-aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few days later, HR called us in. I expected a fair discussion\u2014but instead, I was told my tone was rude and that I should be more understanding because of her pregnancy. My note, apparently, made her feel \u201cunsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019ve been asked to apologize.<\/p>\n

Worse, my coworkers have started avoiding me. People I used to talk to daily now treat me like I did something wrong.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not against supporting someone during pregnancy\u2014but where is the line between support and being taken advantage of?<\/p>\n

Am I really the bad guy here?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At first, I was happy for my pregnant coworker. I helped when she felt sick\u2014covering meetings, grabbing documents, even picking up lunch. I figured it was temporary. But then things changed. She began forwarding her tasks to me almost daily with notes like, \u201cBaby brain today!\u201d I told her to stop, but she laughed it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-001801.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7558,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions\/7558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}