A couple of years ago I posted about my issues regarding a colleague's breast milk being stored in our tiny office mini-fridge without benefit of opaque containers of some sort. It made me uncomfortable, despite having no problem when women in a non-work environment actually breast-feed or, for that matter, pump right in front of me. I ultimately told my cow-orker, gently, that it made me uncomfortable and she agreed to store the expressed milk differently. We all made it through relatively unscathed, although she did seem kind of surprised when I initially brought it up.
Today, our local etiquette columnist, Miss Conduct, provides what as far as I am concerned is the definitive word on this topic. Thank you, Robin Abrahams, and thank you to the reader who submitted the question.
Now I trust we have finally pumped this subject for all it's worth.
Posted by cynical at July 13, 2008 11:24 AMThanks for keeping us abreast of this.
Posted by: adamg on July 13, 2008 07:58 PMMy pleasure, Adam. If mammary serves, you're a great resource for insights into workplace conundra. Next time I'll milk you for information before posting.
Posted by: cynical on July 13, 2008 08:44 PMOy, the puns!
I don't mind seeing a mother breastfeeding in public, but putting a jar of her mama juice in the company fridge is not much different than storing your urine sample right next to it.
While breast milk is edible, it's no more appetizing for a coworker than taking a big slurp of pee-pee.
New mothers need to stop considering their openly displayed milk to be sacred and beyond criticism.
Your supervisor, even if her title is only titular, should have stepped in and...oh who cares? I just wanted to use "titular" in a sentence.
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A) You're all terrible.
B) Karen reminds me of my favorite (and possibly most convincing) ASCII art I've ever seen.
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Posted by: TJ on July 15, 2008 09:36 AMHEY!
TJ's asskey tits are much yummier than mine!
No fair.