Memphis Business Daily - Do your coworkers ever show you pics of their kids?

Do your coworkers ever show you pics of their kids?

Does it get on your nerves, too? I honestly don't care what little Johnny or Susie is doing now, nor do I want to spend any amount of time at work looking at the resemblance and thinking of the horrible lives these poor kids are going to have when they grow up to look like their incredibly unattractive and lazy parents. How do you politely tell your coworkers that no, their kids aren't adorable, you're not impressed that they can ride a bike at the ripe age of 9 and they should get some work done for once in their miserable lives?

Public Comments

wow. your already at work and i know you couldnt really care less about. take 5 minutes to act interested and just be nice. my dad has loads of family pictures on his desk at work
lol i like your honesty other peoples kids are just not as interesting as your own or as cute why not just yawn and walk off
Well im really close with all my coworkers & our kids all go to school together so I like knowing what little Johnny or Susie is doing & what they look like now. I think your being a little harsh (:
Hey Hey Hey, watch the kids names, there buddy. :p Ya know how I got the hint? Instead of the person politely telling me that they didn't wanna see my pics anymore, they deleted the email without reading it. Yeah, I don't send her pics anymore. LOL
You don't have kids, do you, obviously, and no it doesn't get on my nerves. Kids are a blessing.
just act as though your interested.
...Well that's harsh!! I am one of those people....I'm a spanish teacher for the 11th and 12th grade at the local high school, there are 3 others, and we're all women, all with kids. We constantly share stories and pictures when we go out or aren't preparing lessons...also, my office has pictures EVERYWHERE. When a student comes in to question homework or take a speech quiz, I constantly get asked, "Who's that?!" and I explain. I believe my kids arrre adorable and I love when people share their kids stories. UNLESS they are the type of people who are all like, "My kids are sooo perfect, can't do anyyything wrong" and try to make everyone else's kids seem inferior. Lol
wow, you clearly aren't a parent!
It's called "being considerate", whether you care or not.....it comes with maturity. You must not be there yet. (A better section to post this may be 'singles and dating' or 'adolescent'.......not the parenting section.
Well to be honest...I'm a mom and I work full time in an office...and my cubicle is nothing less than a shrine to my son. I don't walk around taking photos to people and gushing about my son, I don't send out email blasts, I don't send unsolicited developmental updates...because ...even though I'm a mom...I really don't like kids in general...lol. I like MY KID and I'm pretty sure he can walk on water but I totally understand why someone wouldn't give a rats asss about what Luke said this morning that was so funny. My cube on the other hand...is my personal chunk of real estate here... So if you don't want a play by play of every single developmental achievement...I highly recommend you take two steps back and contact me via email... Otherwise you're at serious risk of going into sensory overload with all the pictures, artwork, mpg's on the digital pic frame, personalized calendars and photo magnets I have hanging from every possible surface. As far as politely handling a coworker that has uninteresting chatter to share with you...handle it just like you'd handle anyone else that you have to be civil to...Smile and Nod and Walk Away. Do you really think that every smile and nod you get is "actual interest" in whatever you happen to be talking about???
It just takes 5 minutes. I'm not going to walk up to some random coworker and say "You're fat and you're kdi is freaking obese. Put him on a diet soon, or he'll die. Oh Wait just shoot he'll leave his life. Now get back to your freaking work 'cause I really don't care. You all can go to hell!" That is a ood way to get fired for causing problems.
"Silly" made me laugh hysterically. I totally agree with that answer and feel the same way...although I am a culprit of talking a little too much about my super-child..and I will try to tone it down at work now that I realize people probably do hate it. What we did at work to combat the "want to see a zillion pictures of my kid" is to create a 'bragging wall' in a common area where we can put up pictures of our kids/grandkids/cats....whatever we want to show off...it works well. Maybe you should suggest that.
I work at a school so I have to actually look at the little shits face to face. Try that on for size. It was worse when I worked in the orphanage though, those kids sure can wine
When I worked at the meat facility they did. And I thought I was ugly! I couldn't tell if they were showing me pictures of their kids, or clips from National geographic magazines. Good lordy!! Blesses!! -F U
OMG I have to smile and act interested so that they dont notice my cringe at the mugshots...