Retail employee begins ignoring male coworker, starts disappearing mid-shift: 'She drastically changed her behavior towards me'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Nov 23, 2024 11:00 AM EST

This dude is in a really awkward situation with a coworker, and he's wracking his brain to figure out what he did wrong. 

In some work environments, a single person can ruin the whole vibe. It's true what they say: one bad apple can spoil the bunch. You can go from having a peaceful work environment one day to an awkward job atmosphere the next. It all depends on the attitude and the amount of grace that your coworkers are willing to offer. Because, as u/Saikasss can tell you, not everyone can forgive and forget. 

As some commenters noted, it's possible that his coworker was crushing on him, and was offended that the affection went unrequited. The coworker seems unable to separate her personal feelings from her duties at work. Instead of treating her coworker the same as any other, she made it clear that she was now annoyed by everything he did. Commenters supported the original poster, letting him know that he probably didn't do anything intentionally wrong. 

Up next, read about these diners who had to leave a restaurant as quickly as possible after spotting some red flags, like one person who unfortunately saw "Ants in the salt shaker." 

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  • 02
    My[24M] female coworker[20F] started hating me for no reason? So to specify more, I work in a clothing store, mostly selling clothes for women but there is for both, I and my boss are the only male workers in the shop and then a lady coworker who is in her 50s, she's very sweet.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 03
    For summer we got a temporary coworker, a girl of 20 years old. Everything seemed to be nice,we got along and talked a lot. We would have even a lot of vulnerable conversations very easily, which made me think she and I got along as coworkers nicely, that there was good harmony like I have it with me other coworkers.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 04
    The day before she drastically changed her behavior towards me she was specially very nice,we laughed and everything was good vibes, she even waited for me to leave which she usually wouldn't do since she always wanted to get earlier out and I would let her go and close the shop alone.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 05
    But the next Monday she suddenly started ignoring me completely, not even saying hello, no goodbye, and whenever i would ask if i said something that bothered her or if she was alright she just would say without looking at me she is, but then would talk happily with everyone else, with light in her eyes but when I asked her something work related she either would look at me with a cold stare.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 06
    Suddenly it turned to hate when one day I committed the mistake of thinking that when receiving a delivery we wouldn't need. another clothes cart (we usually put 3 but this time was needed 4 and misunderstood the task) she told me that because my mistake the older coworker yelled at her.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 07
    From that I understood a bit why she was annoyed at me and i told her and my older coworker that I was truly sorry of my mistake and that it wouldn't happen again, but she suddenly snapped when I said the older coworker needs more assistance from us youths more when carrying heavy stuff since she is a grandma and it's more delicate.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 08
    She snapped and then apologized again since I didn't mean it it in a mean way when calling the older coworker granny, like many clients and the older coworker refer to me as kid (many tell me I look like a 18 year old), but she took it very bad and from that day she became a terrible coworker to work with.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 09
    Suddenly she would disappear from the shop for 15 minutes with her friends when she and I would be the only one working the shift. When I needed help she wasn't there since she was out.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 10
    The shop doesn't have security cameras so I didn't have any way on proving to my boss what was happening and he wouldn't take me seriously.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 11
    The last days she was just mean, and when I needed help in one task I'm kind of slow paced which was counting the coins, she would say no, and then would say she is doing it for herself which we all are when working here, but don't understand why the sudden behavior.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 12
    It was hurtful sometimes specially when she would talk happily with everyone else but then change it completely when I asked something. I even tried conversing about the fact that it was hurtful and she wouldn't respond anyways.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 13
    The last day of her contract she didn't even say goodbye, only to my older coworker. It made me look crazy to my other coworkers because this all would happen when I was working in the same shift as her. I don't understand, I get along with everyone else and a lot with many clients.
    via u/Saikasss
  • 14
    I treated her the same way I do to my other coworkers, we usually are a very friendly team and we speak about a lot of non work related stuff and one even lent me money when I needed it a lot (and of course returned it back!) but for some reason,with her it wasn't the good vibe in the end?
    via u/Saikasss
  • 15
    Have any of you have a similar situation with a female coworker? How did you deal with it?
    via u/Saikasss
  • 16
    Old_Tea_9294 Maybe she liked you and waited outside for you that one night giving you a hint that she was interested. You didn't take the hint and it psed her off.
    via u/Old_Tea_9294
  • 17
    Meadow_Rivers She waited for you to leave, which she usually doesn't do.... bro, I think she wanted you to ask her out on a date I could be wrong, tho
    via u/Meadow_Rivers
  • 18
    Theoriginalen... , I assumed your other coworker was talking sh about you and made you look bad but other comments about her wanting you to ask her out never even crossed my mind. I'm too ND for this nonsense, good riddance she was a temp.
    via u/Theoriginalensetsu
  • 19
    dingo1018 Clearly you cheated on her in a dream. How very dare. you!
    via u/dingo1018
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    no-throwaway... Perhaps she heard or saw something about you that she didn't like. Perhaps 'granny' has been saying bad things about you behind your back.
    via u/no-throwaway-compute

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