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wait when you knock for goodness sake!

post #1 of 8
11/4/09 at 4:48pm
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I am traveling today, and am in one of our company's offices outside my own city, using a guest office. The office does not have a lock. So I am in here pumping, a secretary knocks and opens the door, without waiting for a response. I full-on flashed her with my shirt open and breast pump a-going. I am so embarrassed! I thought you waited for a response before opening the door!
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post #2 of 8
11/4/09 at 5:08pm
Sorry that happened to you! I will be at an off site meeting all day tommorrow without my car and I am trying to figure out how I will pump.
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post #3 of 8
11/4/09 at 6:27pm


Ugh. I don't have a lock on my office door either. I put a sticky note on the door that says "Please come back in a few minutes!" and pull a chair in front of the door. People here are notorious door-openers, so I try to make it known what I'm up to.

Poodge, that's tough. Kudos to you for making it work.
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post #4 of 8
11/4/09 at 11:26pm
Yeah, I had that happen at work. I had locked my classroom door, but our attendance clerk/computer guy/home-to-school liason/all-around-does-everything guy had keys. He assumed someone had forgotten to turn my classroom lights off (I was at my desk, not visible from the classroom door). He walked in. Luckily, I was wearing a qaspeq (a local garment, very loose-fitting shirt) and could pull it down over my full flash-age. He's this dear, sweet, quiet little man, and even the SOUND of the pump and the knowledge of what was going on under that shirt turned the poor guy bright red.

I told his wife, and she said, "After six kids, it's nothing he hasn't seen a million times."
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post #5 of 8
11/5/09 at 1:18pm
It is tough!

My co-worker came back from her 2nd maternity leave (2nd child) and found that our lactation room had been turned into a storage room so she used the staff break room and put a sign on the door with cows and baby bottles etc "DO NOT ENTER/NO ENTRE: Room in Use" I have a similar sign when I have time to use my electric. Most of the time I don't have time and I just lock myself in the shower or bathroom stall and manual pump for 10 or so mins. I also pump in the car fairly often.
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post #6 of 8
11/5/09 at 5:28pm
not looking forward to this part of breast-feeding.
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post #7 of 8
11/6/09 at 12:33am
The closest I've come to this was someone knocking on the door the other day. Luckily for me they stopped there (I think one of the bosses who knew what was going on might've said something). Since then I sit with my back to the door, if not in a chair backed against the door!

I've got to say though that my new job is still an improvement on situation though. At my old job they'd just moved to a new location the weekend before I came off mat leave and there wasn't even a door on the bathroom. A serious issue when there were no other closed offices and I didn't have a car. Yikes!
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post #8 of 8
11/6/09 at 12:03pm
yea, I had this happen a few times. I have a lock on my door, but once the IT guy came in with his own key, and another time a maintenance guy came in... I was pretty embarrassed, but I think that they were more embarrased!
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