What are the boundaries that you set with your colleagues and friends? A woman in Singapore recently had a heated argument with her husband outside their flat after the man’s female colleague called her “baby”.
The upset woman, who was in the corridor of the second floor, screamed her lungs out to make a point – it is NOT common to be addressed “baby” by the opposite sex at work. To her, it is equivalent to a betrayal.
Her husband told her not to scream, but the woman stood her ground, saying that she wanted everyone to know what the man did in office.
The man, who was on the ground floor, gently told his wife that the colleague calls everyone “baby” in the office, but his answer did not sit well with his wife.
“She calls everyone baby, you sure?!”
Due to her immense voice projection in the area, the man had to beg him to stop the fight, to which she told him,
“You don’t tell me what to do. I tell you what to do!”
The woman then threw the man’s pillows onto the ground, telling him not to come home because she didn’t want to see him for the night. She stormed off, and the man said “Xiao zhar bo!” (Crazy woman in Hokkien) before picking up his pillow and walking to his car.
“You’re not everyone’s mother, you don’t call everyone baby!”
In the video that is circulating on the Instagram page @tiagong_sg, netizens also expressed what they thought of the situation, saying that it is not common for a woman to call everyone “baby” in the workplace. A netizen also pointed out that the man should’ve done something to keep his boundaries if that was really the case.
Ladies, what do you think of intimate names in the workplace? Gentlemen, what will you do if you’re being called “baby” or other inappropriate names out there?
