Immaturity at work

[toffee]

A coworker of mine asked me yesterday for the name & email address of 1 of my new teammmates (Mike). FYI.....this coworker works on another team, is around my age, and is known to be a bit of a gossiper. Anyway, so she comes up to me yesterday and ask me the name of my new teammate. I tell her his name....she says thanks and goes back to her desk. A few minutes later she IMs me and states Mike's name is not in the Outlook address book.

So I IM Mike's screenname. She says thanks. Then I realize that Mike indeed has a work email address setup, but it's not in the Outlook address book yet. So I IMed her his email address. Next thing I know:

Coworker: "Damn Im not asking for his email address im talking about Outlook"

I was thinking to myself...wtf? I'm trying to help you and you snap my head off???

So I wrote back: "Who pist in your cornflakes this morning?"
Coworker: "huh?"
Me: "forget it"
Coworker: "what?"

I didn't reply back. I knew she was doing that "huh, what" shit to aggrevate me. Anyway, this morning I come to work to find that I'm locked out of my office. FYI...she works in a cube right outside my office....my desk is in the office with the bossman and the bossman is out today. So I had to track down security to open up the office door.

I'm thinking she purposely locked the door from the other side because it's never locked.

Pretty immature, huh? The woman is 25 or 26 years old. Give it up already, will you? We're not in high school anymore. Whatever.



More background story. This is the same female coworker who told her teammates that I was trying to force her to drink. We (me, her, and 2 other coworkers) went out to happy hour about 3 months ago. I was being nice by offering to pay for a round of drinks. She said she had to go soon and I said "are you sure you cant stay longer?". Some how, in her mind, she thought that comment meant I was forcing her to drink.
So that following morning, I overhead her talking to her teammates about how I was forcing her and the others to drink. I learned my lesson....never go to happy hour with coworkers again.


Oh the immaturity that arises in the workplace. :heehee: From my personal work experience, it's usually female coworkers who play that immaturity game.

[summergold]

Immaturity at work is total BS. I'm the youngest one in my office, so I don't really hang out with any of my coworkers. I tend to have the problem of it turning into a hen house, all these middle-aged women gossiping and talking about their children and latest romantic trysts (all of them are divorced). I've learned my lesson about telling them ANYTHING about my private life. Did any of your other co-workers think you were forcing them to drink? It just sounds like she's a person who needs drama in her life to the point of creating it. If it starts to actually effect your work, I'd try and document it, and however strong the temptation becomes, don't retaliate. Even though you really want to :twisted:

[shimmer728]

Wow, that's ridiculous. It totally sounds like high school. Unfortunately, I'm pretty familar with high schoolish work environments, and like summergold, I had to learn the hard way NOT to talk too much--if at all--about my personal life with co-workers. Often, you're just opening yourself up to criticism and nastiness. It sucks.