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Employee Has Had Enough After Annoying HR Lady Kept Pestering Her About Silly Things And Touching Her
Employee Has Had Enough After Annoying HR Lady Kept Pestering Her About Silly Things And Touching Her
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Employee Has Had Enough After Annoying HR Lady Kept Pestering Her About Silly Things And Touching Her

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We usually spend more time being around our colleagues than our friends. The difference, however, is that we can’t choose who we work with. So there’s no guarantee that we will hit it off with everyone in the office.

The most we can do is try to form an environment where everyone is respectful and maintains a professional relationship. But some people aren’t even that considerate.

Ironically, the HR lady at the company Reddit user FellTheBlackWolf earns her living from is damaging interpersonal communication more than she’s fostering it. Her inappropriate behavior got so bad that employees are dreading every second they have to interact with her.

Sick and tired of the obnoxious woman, FellTheBlackWolf made a post on the r/antiwork subreddit about her to remind us that everyone has different limits and we have to be mindful of the way we interact with each other.

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    But the company’s HR lady thinks she’s “lonely” and is forcing her to interact

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    Image credits: Sora Shimazaki (not the actual photo)

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    Having friends at work can be really useful.

    “Our research has repeatedly shown a concrete link between having a best friend at work and the amount of effort employees expend in their job. For example, women who strongly agree they have a best friend at work are more than twice as likely to be engaged (63%) compared with the women who say otherwise (29%),” Annamarie Mann of Gallup said in a statement.

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    Mannn even suggests to put the science aside and look more holistically at what’s happening in the workforce: “We now live and work in an era where many employees expect their job to be more than a paycheck. The paycheck still matters, of course, but employees seek out and stay with organizations that have exceptional workplace cultures,” she continued. “And while there are numerous components of these cultures, they are often characterized by overall feelings of trust, belongingness and inclusion.”

    When HR advisory and research firm Future Workplace conducted a study with Virgin Pulse of more than 2,000 managers and employees in 10 countries, it found that nearly 1 in 10 people have no friends at work, and more than half have five or fewer. And those with few friends did, in fact, saiy they felt lonely either very often or always and disengaged in their work.

    Almost two-thirds said they would be more inclined to stay at their company longer if they had more friends—this was especially true for millennials, who consider their manager as their work parent and their co-workers their work family.

    So assuming she doesn’t have any ulterior motives, we can at least understand where the HR lady is coming from. However, the way she goes about it is appalling.

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    As her post went viral, the woman provided more information on her workplace in the comments



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    liam newton-harding
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is it that in the workplace, and in Society in general, that introverts are expected to molly-coddle self declared extroverts? Why should someone who is okay with their own thoughts be forced to spend time with someone who is terrified of being by themselves? Introverts don't need to be "fixed".

    Dodo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because extroverts run the world. They make the rules and the rest of us have to fall in line.

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    Helen Waight
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a boss of mine, long time ago, who made it her mission to get me to ‘open up’. She tried to hug me, would ask really personal questions, make assertions that ‘bisexual = loose morals’, tell me that I’d be happier if I had babies and came off my meds…etc. It came to a head when she jumped me from behind to hug me the day I returned to work after being sexually assaulted in the street outside the office (I was off for 3 weeks). I didn’t react well, nearly bashed out her teeth with my elbow. Do not touch people.

    Night Owl
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! I'm so sorry. Both for the sexual assault and that you had to deal with someone like that as your boss. She should be happy if she didn't get more than a couple of bruises for it

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    Stargazer66
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate all of the 'team-building' c**p that corporations do to 'increase moral'. Wanna increase my moral? Don't make me do stupid team-building exercises or retreats, just give me more money and let me do my ducking job.

    alloutbikes@yahoo.com
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Got dragged to the mountains to team build. I was just filling in until my supervisor got back from medical leave. We went to a tiny restaurant that clearly couldn't handle the number of people we had. By the time they took our orders I was starving. I think it was around 10 PM when we finished. And the "games " they have you play are crazy.

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    liam newton-harding
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is it that in the workplace, and in Society in general, that introverts are expected to molly-coddle self declared extroverts? Why should someone who is okay with their own thoughts be forced to spend time with someone who is terrified of being by themselves? Introverts don't need to be "fixed".

    Dodo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because extroverts run the world. They make the rules and the rest of us have to fall in line.

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    Helen Waight
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a boss of mine, long time ago, who made it her mission to get me to ‘open up’. She tried to hug me, would ask really personal questions, make assertions that ‘bisexual = loose morals’, tell me that I’d be happier if I had babies and came off my meds…etc. It came to a head when she jumped me from behind to hug me the day I returned to work after being sexually assaulted in the street outside the office (I was off for 3 weeks). I didn’t react well, nearly bashed out her teeth with my elbow. Do not touch people.

    Night Owl
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! I'm so sorry. Both for the sexual assault and that you had to deal with someone like that as your boss. She should be happy if she didn't get more than a couple of bruises for it

    Load More Replies...
    Stargazer66
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate all of the 'team-building' c**p that corporations do to 'increase moral'. Wanna increase my moral? Don't make me do stupid team-building exercises or retreats, just give me more money and let me do my ducking job.

    alloutbikes@yahoo.com
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Got dragged to the mountains to team build. I was just filling in until my supervisor got back from medical leave. We went to a tiny restaurant that clearly couldn't handle the number of people we had. By the time they took our orders I was starving. I think it was around 10 PM when we finished. And the "games " they have you play are crazy.

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