to let this bother me? (work related)

[Naysa]

There's a girl on my team (A) who was in training at the same time as me and we started work together, along wih a few other people. She is very nice. She started with her close friend who was sacked a couple of weeks ago.

A and I are on the same team and shifts. Every week we have to fill in a break and lunch rota and stick to those times all week.

Since A's friend left she's "latched" onto me. She didn't really speak to anyone else while training or in work as she had her friend and they were a pair. As I said she is really nice and when we're working we have a laugh.

The thing is, she insists on taking lunch and break with me and then sits there on her phone talking to her girlfriend and her mum. I'm not talking about a couple of minutes, I mean all break.

A is nice enough but I'm getting fed up of sitting on my break in silence. I can choose a different break to her but I don't want to upset her. But at the same time my breaks are important to me and I don't want to sit in silence.

AIBU to be getting so annoyed by this? (be nice )

I thought you were going to say she stuck to you like glue and wouldn't talk to anyone else, and you were getting tired of only being to talk to her.

Why are you reduced to silence, though - cant you talk to other people on the same lunch break? I mean, do you want to talk to her, or are you just annoyed because you feel it's as if you are going for coffee with a friend, and she spends the whole time on the phone?

Because of the way our shifts are arranged three people from one team and three people from another team go on breaks and lunch at the same time. I think there's 7 different lunch times depending on your shift and group. So there are other people but they're usually in the smoking area and I don't smoke.

Change your break and if she questions it just tell her you felt she needed the privacy to make all her personal phones calls, you didn't want to be in the way.

Get your phone out and call someone when she's free to chat. Hang the phone up two minutes later, and say something like 'sorry I really needed to make that call, I wouldn't normally be rude and ignore you, it was just very important'. Hopefully she'll get the hint that her behaviour could be deemed rude.