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Workplace romance is a common headache for HR, especially when it ends badly. However, what about when feelings are unrequited, sometimes with extreme results.
Workplace romance is a common headache for HR, especially when it ends badly. However, what about when feelings are unrequited, sometimes with extreme results.
Have you ever had a workplace stalker?
Well...Not exactly...I admit, I am shallow and if approached by a woman weighing 200+ then I do get turned off. I came into the company and her eyes lit up right off the bat, yep was over weight myself. After 6 months she started to get mad at co-workers, started arguing and fighting with them and shift lead and was terminated.
Continued to leave me notes stuck in the front door and other doors (I never gave her my address, she followed me one day I guess). The one that snapped was the one where she said "It would be a terrible thing if the boys (My dogs) came up missing" I gladly left the area, never to return....
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No, but on my first day of a new job I drove into the parking lot to find police, ambulance, and coroner's vans. The Ex of a woman who worked across the way came there to shoot her and her new boyfriend. He then killed himself. The bodies were still on the ground. I almost left.
No, but on my first day of a new job I drove into the parking lot to find police, ambulance, and coroner's vans. The Ex of a woman who worked across the way came there to shoot her and her new boyfriend. He then killed himself. The bodies were still on the ground. I almost left.
I had a co-worker once at my first job after grad school who was interested in me, but I did not feel the same. I made it explicitly clear that I thought of him only as a friend, but he did not take the hint. One day, he gave me a pair of earrings from Tiffany's. I gave them back. Next day, he gave them to me again, and said he would throw them away if I returned them. So, I kept them. Still have them, in fact. Finally, he got the message. I had told him I would not date people from work, then a few months later started dating the guy that I would marry. He always disliked my (now) husband.
Many years ago I had an ''ex'' stalk me at my workplace. She'd call my manager and tell her I said this or that about the manager, company, and clients. She also found my old address book and called many people in there saying hateful things about me and trying to smear me with friends. She also slashed my tires and kicked in my car door. I eventually ''disappeared'' in the same town and creepily ran into her at an educational seminar many years later. When I saw her in the hotel lobby I did a one eighty and headed straight for my car and left the building. She was a certified ''nut''.
I had not been out of the navy very long when I was working at a business taking care of their phone system. One of the managers was not my type at all but she felt that I was hers!
I would send an email to all managers and she would reply only to me with things like when am I taking her to dinner. She is hungry for me. One or 2 were very graphic and not appropriate for work at all. I honestly didn't know what to do. I didn't want her to get in trouble and I didn't want to get myself in trouble. I printed the emails and approached another manager that I trusted. She was shocked when she read the emails. She suggested I tell her I wasn't allowed to date anyone from work. So that's what I told the stalker manager. She quit the next week!
She emailed me a few times with her number from her new job. I never called and I don't know if her quitting was a coincidence or not but it freaked me and the cool manager out for a while when it all happened !
Not me but my assistant manager from when I was in retail had a creeper. He would come by and talk to her while eyeing her like a dog to a pork chop. We would get silent phone calls also. The guy worked in the same complex so he was close by. Told him to stop hanging around but would see him watching from afar. She was creeped out by him but left the job about a year later and that was that. Interesting twist; I moved 2 years ago and saw him a few times in my new neighborhood mumbling to himself. He didn't notice me though.
Creepy, weird guy he is.
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