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Anonymous
My coworker is so nosy. She asked me what my parents do as a profession, if they’re retired, where they live, what city, etc. The other day I accidentally parked near her and as I was walking in, I saw her get out of her car and peep inside mine. Who does that?
She came to talk to me in my office and I could see that her eye contact was on my personal planner in front of me. If I rearrange even a stapler on my office shelf, I can see her eyes automatically shift there to take in the difference. At times, she is very helpful but this unnecessary curiosity is annoying me. I will have to be extra careful abot what I leave out. Anybody have similar experiences?
S in Chicago
I’ve been the nosy one–but I swear not like that. At last not intentionally.. I remember once being in the office of a really intimidating SVP. He had a digital photo pointed in my direction. I think because I was so nervous about talking with him and I’m always a bit ADD, too, my eyes wandered there. I was in the middle of thinking, he looks like a nice dad. He can’t be all that bad and scary….When he got up and moved the photo. I seriously wanted to crawl through the floors and die I was so embarrassed. Just thinking about it now all over again makes my palms sweat.
Interestingly, I recounted the moment a few years later to one of his reports saying how I felt like I could never recover from that. When she shared the same thing had happened to her!
I swear, I would never car peep though. Unless you’re like a weird hoarder and I happened to notice or something like that.
Eek! Must. stop. myself.
Babyweight
I had a college roommate who did that. Thankfully we had separate bedrooms, but every time I came or left the apartment, it was a hundred questions. She looked through everything left on the kitchen table, etc. The delta between her inquisitiveness and my private nature strained our friendship and ultimately lead to its demise.
Jessica F. Walker \\ Millennial Life Skills Coach
I have a nosy coworker. I live in a relatively small town so everyone knows everyone. He knows my roommate and is always asking me things that he doesn’t need to know. He’s so nosy but I think its just part of his personality.
If you feel like this person is getting too close, maybe have a talk about boundaries. People don’t often know they have a problem until its acknowledged. Good luck!
Jamie
Yes – I can relate! I had a co-worker who was a pro at “discovery”. She weaved questions into the conversation under the guise of friendliness, and you were bound to slip up eventually!
Calibrachoa
There has been a major password leak – Gizmodo has the news here http://gizmodo.com/cloudbleed-password-memory-leak-cloudflare-1792709635 and it includes sites such as Uber , Yelp and Glassdoor so I recommend changing your passwords