'You should learn how to take "no" for an answer': Woman shuts down nosy coworker's questions about her husband's salary with controversial response

The workplace presents itself with many challenges... Chief among them being painful social interactions with the dreaded coworker.

Take, for example, Trish, who brings her needlessly pungent soup every day for lunch. The soup smells as if it has been assembled with broth made by soaking the feet of aged retirement home inhabitants before distilling the soaking to carefully concentrate the very essence of foot odor.

Trish heats her foot soup in the kitchen microwave daily, where its putrid scent seems down the hallway, permeating through the crack in your open door. By the time you smell it, it's too late, the scent has taken over your office, and you're going to be breathing in aerosolized foot soup for the rest of the day. To make matters worse, Trish seems incapable of entertaining herself while she's eating and will usually wander down from the break room to pay you a visit. Slurping foot soup while leaning in the doorway to your office, somehow managing to bang the spoon noisily into crooked teeth with each satisfied slurp before returning the spoon to the bowl in an inattentive effort to scrape out the bottom of it.

If it isn't Trish and her foot soup, it's any number of painfully grating interactions, like that coworker who can't keep their nose in their own business.

This worker shared an interaction that she had with her nosy coworker, wondering if she was in the wrong for putting her coworker in her place over her questions about her husband's salary. After finally having enough of the questions, the worker swore at her coworker, calling her out for her nosy behavior.

While readers largely declared the worker and original poster of the thread to be "not the a-hole" for her behavior, they did advise that she apologize for swearing in order to keep the peace and keep herself clear of any trouble with HR.

Read on to see the original thread and responses from readers below.

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Posted by Brad Dickson