I can't understand why she did this

Lets hope the baby has been adopted by someone who longed for a child and was unable to have one.

Let sleeping dogs lie it is not your business. Give the girl a chance to restart her life there may be many reasons not apparent to you why she did what she did.

The whole story is baloney anyway - not a word of it is true imo.

It doesn’t make sense. She had a baby, registered the birth with the baby’s father named. Left the baby in a hospital, went on holiday with her boyfriend, 3 months later is pregnant again and the boyfriend is excited !

What kittylester and phoenix said

And, if you are new, OP, then welcome.

Ps you could always look for another job if you feel you can't work with her.
Although it could be tricky at the moment as it is the school holidays

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Callistemon

And there was I, sorely tempted to say don't believe a word of it.

If this is true , I doubt she will just come out of this unscathed . She will have made this decision when she was very shocked and frightened . I would find it hard to work with my manager knowing any personal information would be divulged to the rest of the staff .

You say you work with this woman, not that she is a close friend, so why are you involving yourself in this?

I doubt any woman in this day and age actually lives through all nine months of a pregnancy without realising that she is going to have a baby.

So either she is a pathological liar and there wasn't a baby last year, or poor soul, she felt forced to give the child up for adoption, or had a severely handicapped child that she didn't have the strength to take home and placed in care. I imagine you can still do this with hideously handicapped children?

Your manager had absolutely no business telling her staff any of all this.

You can and should ignore what you have been told of your work-mate's private business and merely congratulate her on the birth of her baby when it arrives.

In your place instead of concerning myself about your work-mate's problematical motherhood, I would start looking for a new job, somewhere where the manager is capable of not gossiping about her staff. How do you know this is not a pack of lies, or that the manager is not spreading damaging and untrue gossip about you?

how do you know the manager isn't telling a pack of lies?

In your place instead of concerning myself about your work-mate's problematical motherhood, I would start looking for a new job, somewhere where the manager is capable of not gossiping about her staff.

Absolutely agree grandtante I would be looking for another job as soon as possible. I couldn't work in an atmosphere where privileged personal information seen by the manager is allowed to become office gossip.

I agree grandetante and Magicwand totally unprofessional behaviour. I don't think I would want to work in an office where people were so unpleasant to their colleagues.

The school holidays do seem to throw up a lot of strange problems don’t they?

Apparently, HQ don't have any reason to doubt that this poster is genuine !

Squiffy
It's the GNHQ weekend staff! They are so nice.

Well this gets more bizarre by each bit of information and sorry a load of cods somewhere along the line
Yep schools out for summer (I m singing it (?)

gilljack68..... hello? Are you there? Can you give us any update on your workplace situation?

I have my doubts about this thread. Schools have all broken up.

It must be very hard to be a fantasist and have no other way of amusing yourself.

That has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread of course.

No way would a schoolkid make that up.

I worked with a girl who said she had a miscarriage then her mother fell down stairs and was in hospital on a life support machine then the mother needed a tracheostomy because she nearly died and the girl needed time of work to be at her bedside, I really felt for the poor girl and gave her time off work. the next day I saw the mother in a shop near work, could not believe my eyes, the girl was a total fantasist. They do exist unfortunately.

Gonegirl you are under estimating the average 16 - 18 year old. They are still children.and in education.

Its a made up story, the facts don't fit.

Someone in this story about what someone told someone else that a third person had done has a vivid - lurid? - imagination, watches too many trashy films or reads too many cheap paperback novels. I don't know who it is, but I don't think I'll lose any sleep waiting to hear the end.