Good Job

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Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here . (It’s anonymous!)

Dear Good Job,

I just started a new job while I’m five months pregnant. We have the baby’s name picked out, and I just shared it with a co-worker. My co-worker immediately froze.

Then they took me aside and told me our immediate supervisor lost her toddler with the same name last year. This was her only child, born after a prolonged fertility struggle, and it happened in a horrific freak accident. My supervisor ended up getting divorced and is in therapy over it. Now I’m wondering if I should choose a different name for my own baby!…