Coworkers are the skilled individuals with whom you share your responsibilities and cooperate on a daily basis. They enable you to do your tasks swiftly while still having fun. Coworkers are typically your most trustworthy pals at work, with whom you can share duties and enjoy triumphs. Read the story to know what happened between two coworkers and let us know how you would deal with such a situation.
Source: Reddit
There’s this coworker “Martin” 31M. who always forgets where he leaves his stuff. He always forgets his phone charger at home and borrows mine to use. I don’t mind lending him my charger, He’s a nice person and I love maintaining a good relationship with my coworkers. Especially!! male coworkers.
The other day, I was in the restroom then when I walked back into the office, I saw Martin with both hands inside my purse literally looking through it. I was shocked. I have highly personal stuff that I carry in my purse. I freaked out and snatched my purse out of his hands asking what he was doing. He got nervous and said he was looking for my charger. I asked why he thought it was okay for him to look through my purse and he said that, since I always lend him my charger then he thought I wouldn’t mind if he looked for it in my purse when he couldn’t ask me because I was out of the office and he needed it right then. I told him he violated my privacy and disrespected my boundaries. I went and filed a report with the company’s headquarters after telling them what happened. They said it was unacceptable and promised to deal with it.
Martin got into trouble for this and he and my coworkers were pissed saying I overreacted and went way overboard by reporting this situation. My female coworker told me to “get over myself” and stop crying over a simple “misunderstanding”.
I felt very guilty after this. Now I think I might have blown this out of proportion and overreacted.
What would you do in her situation? Any advice. Here are a few comments on the story where it was originally posted:
