Another day, another stupid comment, this one at work from a woman who is notorious for lying through her arse about just about everything in the world.

Today we had a client come in. She is charged with wilful neglect of her children, two of them, one aged nineteen months the other aged almost-three. Recently, she was arrested for shoplifting. She was taken to the police station where she was for six hours having a rest period and being questioned. After eight hours she decided to inform the arresting officers that she had to get back home immediately. When asked why, she said "Because my children are home alone."

Nineteen months. Not quite three years. Home alone for eight hours whilst their mother goes out shoplifting.

"I feel so sorry for this girl," says Clare at work. When I look at her and ask "What the fuck, WHY? She showed LOADS of concern for her kids when she sat in a police station for eight hours without even telling anyone they were at home and at risk. Shouldn't you feel sorry for the kids?"

"They were screaming," she says. "She was home alone with them. She couldn't cope."

Screaming? SCREAMING, I ask? Is that not what babies do?

Clare then glares at me and says "What would you know about post natal depression? It's not like YOU'VE got any kids, is it?"

To which point I just glared back and reminded her that wasn't by choice; reminded her, also, that I would not be so fucking stupid as to go out shoplifting and leave my babies home alone.

She shut up, then.

She's not speaking to me, now.

I am just in quiet disbelief, at this moment.

What a stupid bint... I can't believe the stupidity of some people. How can a work colleague be so disrespectful of your feelings? I don't get it. Especially when she is aware of your situation...



As for that stupid woman leaving her children home alone - those children should be given to foster families who will care for them properly...

Clare then glares at me and says "What would you know about post natal depression? It's not like YOU'VE got any kids, is it?"


WTF????!!!!

That is not you being sensitive hun, that is her being completely insensitive - in a professional setting there is absolutely no call for that kind of remark. It sounds like you have a tough job as it is (although i dont know your exact role), without some no-mark in your team giving you crap.

It's hard enough as it is going through the journey's we are in our private life, it's then hard enough as it is trying not to take it into work, we really dont need some ...... throwing it back.

not sure if you need it, but to you x

i keep saying some peoples are soooooooooo ...don't think they are words for them ..."stupid" is to nice ...

to you.

She basically told me I was not qualified to pass comment on this woman because I had never had children.

I will admit that I have no knowledge of post natal depression but I very much doubt this selfish bitch has anything of the sort. Seems funny, doesn't it, that she only has post natal depression now she has been caught not only shoplifting but neglecting her kids.

Oh, Clare claims she had post natal depression. She also claims she gave birth with half a womb. She has told me that she has had nine miscarriages. Then eight. Then four. Now it's five and she had a stillborn daughter. She told me it took her four years to conceive. Then she told me it took her three months. Now she is telling people she got pregnant the first time she ever had sex with her husband.

As you can see, this woman is a fantastic human being...

stupid cow some people should really keep their mouths shut, i hope you gave her a black eye (or at least an imaginary one)

I'm so sorry you had to hear that sweetheart





xx

It was her insistence on feeling sorry for the mother yet having no concern for the babies, babies I would kill to have as my own, need I say. There she is, excusing the neglect of two beautiful children to a person who is about to embark upon IVF in order to have one of her own. Then, to top it all off, she simply brushes aside my input into the situation because I don't have children and therefore what the fuck would I know?

I know that this woman has never seen a psychiatrist. I also know that she has shown no sign of remorse or guilt or anything of the sort for what she did. I know that every time I have seen her she has been on the phone giggling away like a stupid idiot and that when she was caught shoplifting it was make up and DVDs - things for her, so she did not even have the excuse of saying she was stealing for her children. She was doing it because she is selfish.

This woman has not mentioned post natal depression. Clare is just looking for some form of defense that she can exploit in this case and I find that sickening; sickening that she is looking to make a mockery of a condition simply because she 'feels sorry' for this woman.

Ugh.

Sooo sorry you work with such an awful person!

This same person, I found out rather accidentally, blames every mistake she ever does on me. She lies constantly. She takes on this superior attitude at all times and, ugh, I want to deck her.

Holy shit!!! That is so way off! Two things I can't believe came out of this chicks mouth...the part about how she feels sorry for this terrible terrible mother who would leave such young children at home alone...five minutes, eight hours...just HORRIBLE. For her to feel sorry for this mother just goes to show that this lady herself has some issues. Then, what she said to you....that is just plain WRONG. No way. I would have smacked her. I am so sorry you had to hear that. What a bitch!