Coworker constantly comments on employees' snack and beverage choices in the break room, cries when she tells her to knock it off: 'Commenting on what others eat isn’t appropriate.'

Her coworker's snack choices don't affect her in the slightest.

We all have coworkers with wacky behaviors we don't quite understand, and that's okay! As long as they aren't hurting anybody, there's no reason not to accept their quirks as just a part of their personality. However, everyone has a different definition of "hurting anybody." If your coworker is constantly burping and it's grossing you out so much that you are getting distracted from your work, it can be argued that it falls under the jurisdiction of harming you. It's also really gross and annoying, which is another valid reason to complain about it.

If your complaint is severe enough that you can go to HR about it without getting laughed out of the room, then you should do precisely that. A human resources employee will care if Jared is whistling all day on the clock, and it's driving the other employees crazy, so they can't get anything done. That way, the HR person can talk to Jared about it so he doesn't know which employee complained. It's difficult that triangulation is often the only way you can communicate in the workplace, but it can be better than the alternative.

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