Man outraged by co-workers’ ‘childish’ workplace action: ‘Whiny and self-centered’
A man doesn’t want to speak to his female coworker after an incident involving HR. He took to Reddit’s “Am I the A******” forum to explain. He and his wife Jamila work at the same company. “We recently took on a new intern Olivia, who’s in my department … I do most of her training … Due to this, she spends a lot of her breaks with me and my group”. “Jamila comes to visit me during lunch and there is light PDA … the usual flirty stuff”. “My wife came home crying last Friday as she’d been reported to HR for harassment”. Olivia admitted to filing the report and took a hard stance against Jamila’s behavior. “I explained to Olivia that Jamila and I were married. However, she was firm in her belief that Jamila shouldn’t touch me at all at work and that it sends a weird message to others at work”. “Since then I’ve avoided speaking to Olivia if things aren’t work-related … She’s been very sad and inattentive at work and my coworkers are telling me to stop treating her this way”. “What’s she’s doing is very childish and sounds like she’s trying to manipulate your coworkers into thinking you’re the bad guy,” one person said
