‘[She’s] behaving like the parent of adult employees': Dieting coworker drivers entire staff to the brink, gets forced into earlier retirement with no party

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 10, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Dieting is not easy. We all know that. Hanger is a real thing and can ruin relationships. I know tons of people who I cannot have a conversation with if they are hunger. Like, they will start to yell at you for scratching your head while they were talking, but then apologize to you after they've had lunch. Your stomach hold a lot more power over you than you think. 

 

So when this co-worker decided to diet, she made it the entire office's problem. She treated everyone like they were a toddler and she were their parent. She would roll her eyes disrespectfully at anyone who didn't eat healthily and wouldn't allow anyone to have their sweet treat near her. The annoyance got so great in the office, that she made one co-worker change departments so they wouldn't have to deal with her. Eventually, she was forced into early retirement. And to add salt to the wound (or should I say sugar?), this office was very big on retirement parties, but this employee got nothing, not even a company wide email. 

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  • "Not just your workplace supervisor..."

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  • Comments on another subforum's post recently dredged up my nightmarish memories of this situation... Years ago I had a supervisor who, if she was on a diet, put all her underlings on a diet along with her.
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  • Like I'd go make another cup of coffee midmorning and "Sandra" would pass by my desk, frowning at my sugar packets.
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  • "SUGAR??" she'd say, with this look on her face like she'd caught me trying to burn the building down.
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  • "Sugar is NOT good for us, SnarkySheep." (Neither is constantly behaving like you're the parent of adult employees, which is a large part of why I finally transferred to another department soon after...) But if Sandra decided it was a "naughty" day, of course she'd eat whatever, and because she was in charge and you weren't, the deities help anyone who would dare speak up.
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  • She was the world's biggest micromanager as well as hypocrite. If anyone ever dared take a personal call or look as if they were glancing at anything personal, even for the briefest moment, they'd be sure to hear about it.
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  • But one day, Sandra decided to design and print out invites for her mother's upcoming big-number birthday bash (office color printer, y'know?) And how do I know about it?
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  • Because Sandra's computer skills were almost non- existent. She actually had the nerve to ask for help with her invites.
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  • I could literally write a book about this woman and all the unhinged, nasty things she said and did.
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  • (And in case you might think she was one of those unpleasant people who somehow don't know how they're actually coming across, that was not the case.
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  • This is a great example of FAFO. You can't just treat people like they're the worst for not doing exactly everything you are doing. Especially in the workplace!

  • At one point, she actually said out loud that "if employees don't like me, that means I'm doing a good job as supervisor.") Some time after I managed to escape from that department, I heard through the organization grapevine that Sandra had retired.
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  • I was surprised, as it was the custom to give everyone leaving, regardless of the circumstances or how unpopular they might have been, some sort of goodbye party or lunch, which would include an email announcing their departure sent to everyone.
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  • I hadn't heard of anything, so of course my first thought was that I had simply missed hearing about it.
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  • But no. As I was able to confirm later, the few people in Sandra's department that she hadn't managed to send into early retirement or transfer had all agreed they were not going to put time and effort into planning any sort of event celebrating a woman that had put them down, again and again and again.
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  • My initial thought was a moment of pity for Sandra, because I am at heart a kind person.
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  • It must have been humiliating, her leaving without even a single word of well-wishes from anyone, and a department head, at that.
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  • But then my immediate second thought was that she literally made this happen for herself. It was a huge example of FAFO.
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