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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Maleficent-Wave1993 on 2025-06-25 21:58:22+00:00.

So this happened about a week ago but the shame is still raw.

My boss just came back from paternity leave and brought his newborn into the office for a short visit. Everyone gathered around to admire the baby. It was one of those classic office scenes with people cooing and saying how beautiful he was.

Now here’s the thing: I panic when I don’t know what to say. So when it was my turn to say something about the baby, I nervously chuckled and said, “He kinda looks like a little Winston Churchill, doesn’t he?”

Silence. Like, absolute silence. Even the baby stopped making noise. My boss just stared at me and awkwardly said, “…he’s three weeks old.”

I tried to explain I meant it in a cute way, like, you know, all babies kinda have that wrinkly, wise look but the damage was done. A few coworkers laughed but it was not a good laugh.

I haven’t been fired. Yet. But I definitely got a few emails about “professionalism in the workplace” forwarded to the whole team the next day.

TL;DR: Called my boss’s newborn a wrinkly old British man. May be on thin ice now.