Boss and coworker have a loud ‘introvert bash session’ and trash-talk friends for refusing to play a card game: ‘Tell me you don’t respect boundaries without telling me you don’t respect boundaries’

Keeping everything work-appropriate, especially conversations and interactions, is key to keeping the workplace feeling safe, undistracted, and comfortable. If you're not careful, you can be sent to HR for indirectly harassing coworkers in a place where they're supposed to feel seen and guarded. Having light conversations with coworkers is obviously key to fostering mutually beneficial workplace relationships, but not when you use negativity to sour everyone's day… Spoiler alert: You're louder than you think, get away from my desk!

In this next Reddit story, an employee overhears their boss and a coworker bashing the boss's friends. The employee didn't have to try very hard to listen in because their boss and the coworker were loudly chatting next to their desk for some reason. Not only were the two colleagues being overly obnoxious, but they also continued to trash-talk the boss's friends, a couple who refused to play a card game with her. The boss goes full demon mode. Scroll to read.

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