3/25    Do pregnant women in the last couple months of pregnancy get irrational
        or have mood swings?  A co-worker of mine is getting more and more
        annoying these days.  She picks on every single technical or management
        mistake that other people make and makes a very big deal out of it.
        And she sends long mail to the person right in the next cubicle to
        discuss technical stuff instead of just going over and talk.  It is
        getting very difficult to work with her.  I'm wondering whether this
        is due to her pregnancy or she's beginning to show the real side of
        her after being in the company for a while.  (We're in a software
        engineering dept.)  My current strategy is to avoid any communication,
        work- or non-work-related, with her at all unless absolutely necessary.
        I even try to avoid running into her in the hallway by listening for
        her footsteps first before I leave my cubicle.  Thanks.
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           \_ Hot!  Thx.  But what does she have to do with pregnant women?
              \_ she looks pretty pregnant to me!
                 \_ With that flat stomatch???
        \_ Just a typical woman.
        \_ I know this sounds sexist but this is why we don't hire
           women in our company. I mean, I'd feel sorry for the guy
           she married, but actually, I feel sorry for most married guys
           with preg wife or kids. Yes this is pretty typical. Let it pass,
           it's just hormonal and it's not her fault.
           \_ It not only sounds sexist, it's illegal discrimination.
              \_ Federal laws exempt companies with less than 15 employees.
                 \_ that doesn't make it any less wrong, just not illegal.
              \_ It not only sounds sexist, it is sexist.
           \_ I sure hope it'll pass.  Hope she gets back to normal after her
              3-month maternity leave.  -- OP