My boss said "have fun, enjoy your vacation!!" on my last day at the office before my maternity leave.

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Whenever someone says something like this to me, I calmly respond that they can stay home too if their genitals ever explode and bring new life into the world. Nothing shuts someone up faster than the phrase exploding genitals.

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Ugh. We can fix that. Have a safe and restful maternity leave. Easier said than done, but focus on you and your little family. We’ll be rooting for you!!!!! Go Mama Go!

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Also, to build on my other comment, for those with c sections, you can say “you can stay home too the next time someone takes your organs out while you’re awake and then hands you a baby and shoves your organs back in."

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Coolcoolcoolcoolneatcoolcoolgreat.

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What in the actual fuck. I can’t believe how many people call maternity leave a vacation. Can you report to HR and say that it made you uncomfortable?

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This filled me with boiling rage.

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I am so offended for you. Unbelievable.

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That is so disrespectful!!! Maternity leave isn’t a vacation, it’s a lot of work!

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What an idiot (said like hermione)

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You should invite him to join you on "vacation" lol

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May I take this opportunity (what a clueless boss! I’m so sorry!) to pass along some info I recently learned about? www.thepregnancypause.org
Very cool work done by Mother so there isn’t a gap in your resume. Congrats on the little one! 💜

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That’s bullshit.

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Maybe it was satire?

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So insensitive and selfish.

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I'm with SAD 1. I'd definitely report this to HR.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Take care of yourself and enjoy that little baby. It’s no vacation, I can tell you that much. The fact that your boss (I’m assuming male) said that just shows how out of touch he is half of the population.

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Don’t let this bother you. You have bigger and better things to deal with as you go take care of your growing family. I’ve experienced that often people tend to say stupid things like this out of envy. When I was pregnant with my 2nd child, a co-worker asked me how far along I was and then followed by saying, “awesome, so you’re in time to get rid of it.” Unreal, how stupid other women can be. Later I found out that this woman had a hysterectomy at the age of 19 so she was not able to have kids. Let’s work harder to not put each other down no mater the situation.

Excellent points @Director2. We need to find ways to support each other

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