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Dad's unreasonable Zoom meeting demand of wife and baby

By 9Honey Parenting|

There's no denying it - despite the fact they are little, babies can make a lot of noise. And, as millions of families around the world have discovered during the past 18 months, that noise doesn't make working from home easy.

Now one stay-at-home mum has taken to Reddit to ask whether her husband's demand that she and their baby leave the apartment whenever he has a Zoom work meeting is unreasonable. She said he has called her "stubborn and selfish" for refusing to to do so.

"He takes his position seriously and his meetings require complete silence as he said it'd be incredibly unprofessional for his team to hear any noise of any sort," she wrote. "The problem is, with a seven-month-old in the apartment complete silence is almost impossible to achieve.

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The mum says it is impossible to keep a seven-month-old silent (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

"He came up with a suggestion for me to take my son and leave the entire apartment whenever he has a meeting to which I replied that it was illogical."

The mum suggested her husband holds his meetings in the bedroom, but he said that would not work.

"He explained that our son's crying or any other noise he makes get through every wall and again it'd be unprofessional for his team to hear baby crying in the background like he was streaming the meeting from some daycare."

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"I said no and told him he was being unreasonable to expect me to just up and go with the baby every time he has a five hour long Zoom meeting which can happen twice in one day and be gone until he gives me the green light to return home.

"I argued that if roles were reversed I'd never make such ridiculous requests."

The man was so angry about his wife's refusal to follow his plan he accused her of trying to "sabotage his new position out of pure jealousy".

Fellow Redditors were quick to take the upset mum's side in the dispute.

"He is working from HOME. You are not living from office," one sensible person pointed out. "The wellbeing of you and your son should be his first concern."

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Others argued that, due to COVID-19, everyone is used to people working from home and dealing with the noise that sometimes comes with that.

"This week alone I've had a meeting interrupted by a kid who wanted to say hi to everyone and had to deal with one teammate needing to explain things with the dulcet tones of Baby Shark sounding over everything," one person shared.

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