This Person Asked The Internet How To Politely Tell Their Coworker They Don’t Care About Their New Baby

Still, others said that she shouldn’t have to look at baby photos in perpetuity. Novel-Vacation-4788 wrote, “It’s good to engage the first few times a person pulls out their baby pictures. However, no one should be forced to sit and look at multiple pictures over weeks. It’s great the parents want to share, but they also need to realize that not everyone actually cares about their kid. Learn to read the room and maybe pull out an occasional picture or a special occasion picture. OP is perfectly right to choose to walk away when it gets excessive.”

“You can, just put it nicely. ‘What a lovely baby, but I have to make a call/run to a meeting/go to the loo or whatever. People need to know their baby is not as important to anyone else because that is just reality.”

—000topchef

“Do it enough times and she’ll back off. Unless you’re trapped, like as the front desk person who can’t move when she has you cornered.”

—littlecactuscat