How many of you let your teammates know when you are going through bad menstrual cramps?

We had a teammate before that just said she was having cramps and is staying home. Happened frequently, monthly I guess. Nobody questioned. I think saying you’re sick is cool too; nobody should question the nature of your health issues in general.

Just say you're sick, why do you need to get any more specific than that

What happens if the other gender sends a "sick, OOO" every month, about as regular as every 25 to 30 days?? I mean, gender discrepancies would arise or something?

I miss working with other women and being able to talk about these things. Right now I only work with men so I don’t bring it up

I give my manager more details about my medical problems, but my teammates don’t necessarily need to know everything.

Show no mercy as HR will use your disability to their advantage and you will be the first on the team to go. They will conceal it with a RIF #BadMicrosoft

I do and I am male. I also let them know when I have explosive diarrhea so they can treat me accordingly.

Don’t mention it to the team. Tell your boss.

Uh no thank you. I’m a woman but I’m not interested in hearing your cramps unless it was mentioned in the bathroom. Not a workplace subject matter.

Before I even started at my company, I was honest and wrote them an email explaining that I have chronic pay during that time of the month and asked if I could work from home at least once a month, during the time when the pain is the most severe. Not only did this create a conversation between HR with all women in my company but also they have now started to look into creating a menstruation policy, in which allows women to take a day off/remote (depending on how bad it is). My work is very respectful about this and have no shame in talking about this, like some dude up there saying that he won’t talk about diarrhea (as if his diarrhea came every month, lasted a whole week and makes you truly disable to focus, and even walk in my case). I think that we as women should not be ashamed to talk about this, and I’m not saying it is necessarily to do so, but if you’re restraining yourself because you are afraid of other people’s (men’s) reaction then I’m sorry to tell you but you’re living in a sexist world and letting yourself believe that periods are shameful because of what sexist men have told you as you grew up. Don’t get me wrong, you do no need to say anything if you don’t want, but if you tell a female co-worker and feel comfortable with that, then you should feel that with men too. It’s because of dudes like this diarrhea dude above that we women are ashamed of what our body does naturally, not even realizing that this monthly bleeding is what bring these intolerant men to life. Never feel ashamed about your body!!! Don’t let anyone restrain you from doing what you exactly wanna do. Let men deal with their intolerant and exclusive ways, they will have women and daughters (well a lot of them) and then they will understand.