Employee Demands 'Free Manicure' From Coworker During Lunch Break

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    Coworker demands I spend lunch giving her a free manicure M This happened a couple weeks ago.
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    I (34f) work in a government office in my province. It's a rewarding job but doesn't pay very well, and I absolutely love having my nails done. My nails have been pretty my entire life (flakey and weak) no
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    matter what oil/supplement/whatever I try and I used to have a bad habit of chewing them. So, I bought myself a $50 gel kit from Amazon and started doing them myself about a year ago. I have
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    a nice little set up at this point and I'll do my friends nails from time to time. (I've also completely stopped chewing them.) I brought my kit to work the other day because I was going to a friend's house after to do her nails as a
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    favour before a party. My friend offered to buy a pizza and we were planning to watch a movie afterwards. I made the mistake of discussing this plan with a coworker when she noticed the kit sitting on top of my locker when she came in
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    (small lockers and I didn't want to put it on the floor where I put my dirty walk to work shoes). Oh. My. God. This woman (50ish) spent the four hours leading up to lunch BADGERING me about how I should give her a manicure on our
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    lunch break. I had my favorite teal shade on and she talked about how much she loved it, and how she never gets her nails done because her husband thinks it's a waste of money, and how I can get some practice, and it would be so nice of me, and, and, and.
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    I said at first gently more than once and then (I thought) pretty firmly that I would be eating lunch on my break, before I gave up and just responded to everything she said with a non-commital grunt. When I got up to go she tried to act like I'd
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    agreed to it and she would grab her stuff and meet me in the lunch room. I had to look her in the eye and say "(name) I'm going to eat during my 30 minute unpaid lunch break, not give you a free manicure. Please drop this, you're making me uncomfortable."
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    She has refused to speak to me or look directly at me since, she's mostly remote and kind of annoying so that's not a problem. She's also talked me behind my back, some of my coworkers have told me about it and she's a huge gossip with a massive chip on her shoulder about
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    EVERYTHING so I can only assume most people in the office have heard her harrowing tale. Luckily, everyone who has talked to me about it agrees she's being a complete clown.
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    But seriously, who the asks a coworker you're barely even friendly with for a free manicure, let alone insists upon it for HOURS???
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    INITMalcanis. 22 hr. ago >But seriously, who the coworker you're barely even friendly with for a free manicure, let alone insists upon it for HOURS??? asks a
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    Someone who has had great success over the years getting what she wants using this method Reply Share 681
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    maybe_kd 17 hr. ago Something tells me that she's a "that's just the way she is" person whose general demeanor makes people close to her just acquiesce to her demands to "keep the peace" rather than stand their ground.
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    JipC1963 20 hr. ago Your entitled coworker should use her "badgering skills" to get her miserly husband to pay for her to get her nails done or better yet pay for her own manicure because she WORKS! Super glad that you stood your ground! 179 Reply Share
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    JustanOld BabyBoomer 22 hr. ago Had an EX-friend like this who would BADGER people after being told NO......REPEATEDLY! Her mother let her growing up and get away with that now she's confused about why her doesn't work anymore! 373 Reply Share
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    Morticia Fattums - 20 hr. ago Absolutely record this incident with HR right now. That she's a gossip and recounting that she didn't get to take advantage of you to your coworkers is
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    an attempt to create a hostile work environment and will only get worse if she's not told to grow up and take "No" for an answer. 107 ↓ Reply Share
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    Little French Kiwi . 15 hr. ago She might also twist this later and get you in real trouble with HR. Best to report it now so if she tries to lie later they have your side of the story already
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    afcagroo 14 hr. ago · The smell gives me an almost instant headache. I'm happy for my wife to go elsewhere to get her nails done. 10 Reply Share
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    bodginator 18 hr. ago As a serial hobbyist this happens all the time sadly, "Oh - you do (thing) for fun, do it for me - I will be outraged if you suggest I contribute to the materials - I'm not
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    paying for your hobby! And I place no value on your time so might pretend I will stand you a coffee at some point in exchange for the 40hrs of your time" Reply Share 39

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