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Man looking stressed while talking on a smartphone at a desk with a laptop and paperwork.
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My coworker will not stop harrasing me via phone calls
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Man smiling while talking on a smartphone outdoors near leafy plants.
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Man looking concerned while talking on a smartphone outdoors near leafy plants.
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Six calls a day might have made sense during training. It stopped making sense the moment the training ended, and it definitely stopped making sense the moment a 20-year industry veteran with existing relationships in the region started being called mid-flight, mid-dinner, and mid-jury duty. There is no sales emergency urgent enough to require a voicemail asking why someone has not called back yet after sitting in a courtroom all day. That is not professional diligence, that is separation anxiety wearing a work badge.
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The trade show registration is the detail that really captures what is happening here. Booking a four thousand dollar ticket in a colleague's name, for a week that colleague had already marked as vacation, without a single conversation beforehand, is not an oversight. It is someone who has stopped processing other people as independent adults with their own schedules and started treating them as an extension of their own workday. The assumption embedded in that move is that his priorities are automatically shared priorities, that his calendar is the only calendar that matters, and that a quick call to sort out the return is a perfectly reasonable inconvenience to create for someone else.
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The fact that none of the other salespeople are getting this treatment is the most clarifying piece of information in the whole story. This is not how he operates generally, it is specifically how he operates with this one person, which means something about this dynamic feels personal to him. Maybe he recruited the guy and now feels ownership over him. Maybe he is lonely and found someone willing to pick up the phone. Either way, a colleague is not a support system, and picking up the phone six times a day should not be a condition of employment.
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