At work tonight, my coworker thought she was being funny by throwing things in my face.
One time, it almost hit a customer.
It happened 3 times
I feel it was very unprofessional and shouldn’t happen.
I didn’t say that to her because I didn’t know how to say something without offending her.
I told my husband and he’s furious.
I’m more frustrated at her being so unprofessional than being angry.
What do you think?
I wouldnt be mad she was just playing. Sounds immature though.
I would be pissed. You have more composure than I do. Id throw the same items right back at them and cuss them out. Good on you for staying calm.
Idk depends on who’s throwing something at my face. If it bothers you tell her to stop. To me it’s just what type of relationship or thing you guys have going on. Some people I wouldn’t let fool around with me. Others I don’t care. But yeah doesn’t seem professional.
Tonight was the first time I worked with her @TheSecondVariety .
Throwing item in the store is totally inappropriate and unprofessional, especially considering she almost hit a customer, and the customer ended up bending down and picking it up to hand to me.
It was not funny.
Yeah that doesn’t sound like something I’d want to put up with. Sounds immature too.
What was her attitude while doing it? Was she just joking around being playful or was she acting disrespectful? I agree with the other people that it was an immature thing to do to another adult either way. If she was being disrespectful then I would say something or if she does it again, says something.
She thought she was being funny @77nick77 . That’s why I wasn’t angry. But I was embarrassed because it was so unprofessional. She literally almost hit a customer. And the customer bent over to pick an item off the floor that she had thrown.
That type of behavior is to kind of dismiss your authority or leadership role there. I liked that aspect of sociology that looked at the social meaning behind actions. Shes not just joking around shes doing something because of the social setting.
I would tell her to stop.
It’s important to value your own opinion and you don’t like it,
I wouldn’t be angry, obviously she didn’t mean any harm.
I have thought a lot about my past and I remember that I had a job at Dunkin Donuts when I was young. I was working with a friend at the time. He convinced me to horse around at night when we were supposed to be cleaning. I don’t know how I lost that job but I did. I have come to think that he told the boss that I convinced him to do that stuff, and I got fired. Maybe it is important that you are not a part of her horsing around.
She knows it’s not funny.
She’s messing with you.
Throwing things at your face is 100% not funny ever and every human knows that.
It’s a thinly veiled aggression.
I wouldn’t feel bad about straight up telling her “stop throwing things at my face, not kidding”.
Be stern.
She may act like she was joking and try to make you feel bad.
Also a common tactic of trash people.
Don’t get angry, just tell her to stop and that it’s not a joke.
I was thinking that but I wasn’t sure. You’re right. I’m going to tell her to stop next time.
I’m not angry but I am annoyed and also embarrassed because it almost hit a customer one of the times
Make sure you pick right time to tell her to stop.Otherwise she might with her stupidness consider you an enemy…
She may consider me an enemy regardless. But yes, I’ll be careful @zoa
Next time she does it. Stop her immediately. You dont have to get angry over it but you need to be assertive on that or it will just continue.
If that doesnt work dip her head in the toilet and say you were just joking 
I remember growing up my cousins and I would play poker and the loser would be given a swirlie lol
This! LOL!!! Best advice ever!!!
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