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Anon tries to understand his coworker (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, no harm done, but she'd been leading him on for weeks. That'd make me pissed too.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You know you only have his side of this story right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

Speak for yourself

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't necessarily agree she was leading him on. It was a miscommunication. It's an extremely common story if men misinterpreting women's behavior as pursuit when it is often just friendly. Even then, platonic flirting is a thing. If anon really intended for this to be a date, why did he at no point ask if she was single? We can sit here all day and debate whether the girl's "flirting" was appropriate or not and whether she should've said she had a boyfriend, but it goes both ways. What we do know is that, to anon, this was a date and that anon never asked if she was single at any point in the two weeks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

I don't disagree with you that anon should've asked more questions, but platonic flirting is kinda wacky without a well established rapport beforehand. Otherwise it's just flirting, and can be confusing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Or she genuinely wanted a friend and anon is so attention starved he can't see the difference.

I wouldn't want to go back to that awkward situation either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

Oh, come on. Weeks of talking and flirting (coworkers agreed) and she never mentioned a boyfriend. To be painfully clear, this isn't a gender thing and anyone can lead someone else on to stroke their own ego. And that's what this is (if it happened).