Should babies be banned from the workplace?

The Beer Baron · 13-12-2003 12:34pm #1

Ok so there's been a lot of people on about banning smoking from public areas as it represents a health risk and acts as an irritant, etc, etc.

Well why not ban babies? I hate babies, all they do is **** and scream, and then when they get somewhat older they want to run or crawl about the place, picking things up putting things in their mouth or picking them up and slapping them off the ground. I mean they get tangled up in electronic equipment, of course if some dumb-ass baby get's zapped in here suddenly we're the bad guys- ok, sorry you're stupid baby is bbq'd but you just blew a fuse on our server- I mean wtf?!

People bring their babies places- like we've never seen a baby b4. No your baby isn't special- it's no different to any other whining 400Db crapfactory, it ****s itself, pisses itself, regurgitates bubbly lactic acid on those baby clothes you thought were so cute- why do you bring them to work? Why do you bring them into public offices, why do you bring them into my work? Are we supposed to go, "oh wow I've seen thousands of babies b4 but this one is soooo special"

In truth babies (toddlers in particular) represent a hazzard to equipment, a hazzard to themselves as well as a potential lawsuit. So safety hazzard- strike 1.
They smell, I mean they really smell. Air Pollution -strike 2.
They are whiney loud little bastards and you can't shut them up. Excessive noise pollution- strike 3.

The combination of these factors acts, particularly in places where people are working, to act as a hazzard to ones patience and detrimental to productivity and a general sense of well-being within the workplace- therefore I urge you to write to your local TD and inform them that a ban on all babies in public places by Febuary is the way forward- or possibly even a bringing-your-loud-baby-someplace tax.

Yours TheBeerBaron
(Sitting in work with a loud screaming smelly baby in my face and climbing the walls while its parents just sit there doing nothing.)

Kold · 13-12-2003 12:41pm

No Atari? PFFFFT

Lafortezza · 13-12-2003 12:45pm

What kind of work are you doing??
Afaik babies aren't allowed to be kept in normal busy 9-5 offices, there's health and safety regulations about minors in the workplace.

eth0_ · 13-12-2003 12:46pm

AFAIK babies and children aren't allowed in the workplace. Under health and safety rules. Also, you can be sure your employer won't be insured for any accidents that child might have.
I used to work in xerox and one of my bosses had a son who had severe autism, and her ex-husband wasn't able to look after him for a few hours one afternoon so she asked could he come in and sit with her in work for a few hours, and she wasn't allowed for the reasons i've mentioned.

Agent Smith · 13-12-2003 12:49pm

i also have a baby here in the cyber cafe where i work screeming.......

i hate babies like that..... at least i know i was one

The Beer Baron · 13-12-2003 12:51pm

i also have a baby here in the cyber cafe where i work screeming.......

lemmie guess- they're parents sit there oblivious whilst they check the Ryanair site?

BLITZ_Molloy · 13-12-2003 12:53pm

He works in a net cafe.

Al Bundy had a similar problem with his workplace. Women kept coming in and breast feeding their children in the store.

As I recall he danced about without his shirt to repel the invaders.

The Beer Baron · 13-12-2003 12:56pm

hehehehe

Big al · 13-12-2003 1:31pm

damn straight, those pesky kids

billy the squid · 13-12-2003 3:38pm

No doubt if they were to bring in a ban on babies in the workplace I'm sure it would take the government another two months to work out how to get an exemption for maternity hospitals.

The Beer Baron · 13-12-2003 3:40pm

Simple- an amnesty for smokers so they can converge upon babies, especially where they have them in those incubators. Watch those mothers clear their babbies out.
Logical solutions to little problems.

I should run this country.

Stephen · 13-12-2003 5:23pm

It wouldn't work on the average skanger ma, the one that smoked 20 johnny blue per day throughout her pregnancy and likes to smoke whilst (occasionally) changing nappies and the like.

fozzle · 13-12-2003 5:51pm

I work in a pub and it both horrifies me and drives me nuts how many people bring babies and small children in. That's not to say I was never in a pub with my parents when I was ickle, but I was a well behaved kid. Apparantly I was the last of my kind :rolleyes:

Actually, I blame the parents, if they can't control a two year old in a public place, imagine what that kid is going to be like at 17! But the parents don't seem to have a clue, they let the kids run around, climb on seats/tables, run straight out the door (the pub is on the side of the road - there's about three feet between door and passing cars), and they let them run around in bare feet despite repeated requests to put their shoes back on.

If one of those kids gets glass in their feet we'll be the ones in trouble. :mad:

Töpher · 13-12-2003 6:27pm

Originally posted by fozzle
If one of those kids gets glass in their feet we'll be the ones in trouble. :mad:

What about a bottle in the face?

In the words of Maddox "By not beating your kids, they get a skewed perspective of reality where they start thinking that they have it rough and that they can get away with dying their hair and listening to Insane Clown Posse.". Clicky for article

BLITZ_Molloy · 13-12-2003 7:57pm

Ha ha.. that Maddox quote is brilliant.

Well there's someone I can think you should ban from your workplace anyway BeerBaron. Some guy came in today, sat down opposite my pc and started talking to me about his 'club'.

****ing freak. How come women don't ever chat me up in a net cafe. No wait.. don't answer that.:rolleyes:

Victor · 13-12-2003 10:07pm

They should be "controlled", not necessarily excluded.

A stern voice from a stranger usually works with most kids.

PH01 · 14-12-2003 12:06am

Gawd yes!
When I saw this topic it hit a nerve!
At work there is a tradition that those women on maternaty leave bring in their babies to "show-off"! I hate this carry-on!
First off I'm a baby fan! love them to bits! Can't waite to have my own. But they have their place and at work in peoples faces isn't right!
I'm a firm believer in keeping family and work separate. So what you do at home has no place at work. So if you atre thinking about bringing you baby in to show off to others to show how creative you were then go somewhere else.

oeNeo · 14-12-2003 1:12am

I don't work so nyeh, but I'm all for a ban on children in the workplace. Infact I think a ban on children from public places would be great.

The Beer Baron · 14-12-2003 8:18pm

Well there's someone I can think you should ban from your workplace anyway BeerBaron. Some guy came in today, sat down opposite my pc and started talking to me about his 'club'.

Ah yes, Echo told me about that Molly.
Not too sure you should join that club, I wouldn't.

Still, you meet all kinds of people in here, and there's no reason to ban people just because they were trying to pick you up even if they do seem to be displaying rather bad taste. The poor fool- doesn't know what a nag you are either.

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