He Threatened To Report A Coworker To HR Because They Kept Sneaking Into His Workspace And Taking Naps On His Office Chair
Regardless of whether you have an office, a cubicle, or just a desk, your own workspace is sacred. So, how would you feel if a colleague kept invading your personal area?
This guy has been dealing with the same problem lately concerning one coworker and his office chair.
For some context, he specifically works in an office where finding a comfortable chair is like striking gold. That’s why, a couple of months ago, he invested in an ergonomic chair to be more comfortable at his desk.
“You know, to save my back and make my workday slightly more bearable,” he said.
Well, he has a coworker named Todd who has a bad habit of wandering aimlessly around their office like he’s constantly on break. This seemingly led Todd to discover his new chair. And one day, he randomly caught his coworker napping in it!
“I thought it was a one-time thing. Maybe he just needed a quick power nap, so I let it slide,” he recalled.
Unfortunately, he was wrong. From then on, Todd constantly visited his chair to snooze. Whenever he’d step away from his desk to head to the bathroom or grab a coffee, he’d find his coworker dead asleep in his chair.
“Drooling on my armrest like he pays rent here,” he revealed.
He finally confronted Todd about it, too, and his coworker acted extremely nonchalant toward the whole thing.
velirina – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
“Oh, sorry, dude. Your chair’s just really comfortable. I can’t help it. It’s like a sleep magnet!” Todd responded.
He made it clear how Todd’s naps at his desk were simply weird and that his coworker needed to stop using his workspace as a “personal nap station.”
Still, Todd didn’t take him very seriously and just laughed him off, saying it was only a “quick nap” when he wasn’t using his chair.
Since then, his coworker has even continued sneaking into his workspace to take naps, and he is genuinely paranoid about walking away from his desk for even a minute now. He doesn’t want to keep coming back and finding Todd mid-snooze.
More recently, this led him to tell his coworker off and threaten to go to their superiors.
“I finally snapped and told him straight up, ‘Stay out of my chair, or I’m reporting this to HR,'” he explained.
Todd immediately became defensive, blamed him for overreacting, and claimed he needed to “chill out.” His coworker has also started giving him the cold shoulder around their office.
Now, he’s been left wondering whether laying down the law and reclaiming his own desk chair was really so crazy or not.
Can you imagine sleeping in a colleague’s office chair? Should he follow through on his threat if it happens again?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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