I can see how that would happen without any extra skullduggery whatsoever.
Project will soon be over, no need to mention because it raises a pile of problematic options: are you mentioning it for pity, are you mentioning it for a gift, are you mentioning it as a power move - and so on. Unless the people are at least work friends, it will feel like a weird move for advantage. No mention, project done, no problem.
Project is now prolonged - how do you mention it without all the above questions coming into play again. Argh.
If the project was known to be longer-term, well, mentioning it would be more easy.
Think of it as surgery - you don't always tell everybody and their colleagues about these things. In remote work they may never know that you spent six weeks on crutches. Unless the project goes on and now they want you to meet the client in a social cautious in-person way during that six weeks.
I also don't think much of the solution. Anyone who is diffident enough to be concerned about the impression mentioning a baby in the first place would make is going to bungle the gaslight - and then they will really look deranged.
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Project will soon be over, no need to mention because it raises a pile of problematic options: are you mentioning it for pity, are you mentioning it for a gift, are you mentioning it as a power move - and so on. Unless the people are at least work friends, it will feel like a weird move for advantage. No mention, project done, no problem.
Project is now prolonged - how do you mention it without all the above questions coming into play again. Argh.
If the project was known to be longer-term, well, mentioning it would be more easy.
Think of it as surgery - you don't always tell everybody and their colleagues about these things. In remote work they may never know that you spent six weeks on crutches. Unless the project goes on and now they want you to meet the client in a social cautious in-person way during that six weeks.
I also don't think much of the solution. Anyone who is diffident enough to be concerned about the impression mentioning a baby in the first place would make is going to bungle the gaslight - and then they will really look deranged.