I work with someone who does nothing but talk about her children and how "great" they are at everything they do. No matter if it's playing football, basketball, baseball, marbles... They are the best at it and if it wasn't for them the team would never win. Every time the team wins it's because of her kid and when they lose it's because of the rest of the team and not her kid. I quote "The team lost but (name withheld to protect the innocent) had a great game. If the rest of the team would have just played half as good as him they would have won."

I know people can and should be proud of their kids but there is a point were you can go overboard. I know I'm proud of my kids and they play sports and are pretty good at them but it's not all I talk about and I don't make up rediculous stories about them to tell everyone at work.

Her latest is that one of her kids played in an allstar football game over the weekend and by the end of it the kids on his team were calling him "mini-Montana". I know this is a lie because what 11 year remembers Joe Montana?!! Not mine or any of his friends. GRRRRRRR!!! I just want to tell her to shut the hell up and get off it because at this point we can care less about her lies and BS!!!

tell her to get back to work and make those damn fries!!

🙂 The sad thing is that she's a sales department manager. I guess it's a "motivational" technique that us non-sales people cannot understand.

so she runs the register?

🙂 She should!

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BTW, I am joking. I am in no way implying that you work at a fast food restaurant, not that there is anything wrong with that.

Sounds like she is insecure and makes up for it by exaggerating, her husband is running around on here or hey, maybe she just a A**Hole. In any case, no good will come of it if you confront her directly. Play 50 questions; sincerely ask her all about the details, things like the names of the other kids, the plays everything. If it’s BS, she will avoid you during here next session.

Ha, I like Gene's solution, and would normally implement it... But my boss is different. He would literally talk for hours. This would of course prevent me from doing my job. Then he'd turn around and get on to me for not doing my job. He was just on a one month vacation to his homeland, and that was the best month I've worked there yet. Very nice. But now he's back, and I have to listen to him talk for no less than 1 hour per day, intermittently.

Better yet. Take some time and offer to go to a game. Tell her you would just love to see how her kids play. You can go up to the team and ask where the "mini Montana" is. Go up to the coach and tell him all the magnificent things the Mom said about her kid's playing and you are there to see it first hand. If the kid's a dud, or if the coach rolls his eyes, it might be the last time she will gloat so profoundly.

I sent it too soon.

One of our friends has a kid who shows horses. She knew my wife was into horses and always gloated about how many blue ribbons her daughter won, how much her horse was worth, how she was going to take the kid to Quarter Horse World. My wife kept quiet because we were showing horses with our kid too but never ran across them.

We finally crossed path's with her at a show. She literally put her horse in a trailer and told us that the horse was injured and couldn't show. My wife took a look at this $50,000 horse and was rather suprised to see some old swayback in the trailer. The lady said she didn't bring the good horse with her. Her daughter, who was embarassed by all this said "Mom...we only have one horse. You need to stop telling stories."

With a little bit of help from us and some friends, they got a better horse, some better show clothes and actuall do pretty well now in the 4H circuit.

It was just a little bit of a sad inferiority complex. But now she can brag a little with honesty.

We got one of those at work also... when she comes out to smoke everyone else finishes there Smokes and heads for the hills... the sick thing is she brought her son to Family Day events and not once but a couple times actually kissed him... and I don't mean on the Cheek...

when we deployed overseas there was a ton of Marines on our base at location... she picked up the nickname Iwogima... I asked why'd you guy's give her that name tag?? they said because More Marines have landed on her in the past couple months we've been deployed then landed on Iwogima during the Invasion... it's Sad...

Rayder thats pretty cool what you all did for her...

Hog

You guys are too good with the solutions to this. I'm going to give it a shot with the 20 questions. She's either going to disappear real quick and never come to me with crap again or she'll go on about it and I'll never hear the end of it. Then I'll have to take it to the next level and actually go to one of the games. Now that would be funny, I could just see her face as I show up at one of his games and he's riding the bench!

When you say insecure you're right on the money. This is a woman who wears those "shoulder pads" under every shirt she wears. Whether it's a business suit or sweatshirt (which yes she's worn to the office) she has those shoulder pads on. I wouldn't doubt she wears them with her PJ's too.